The Hamburger SV Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hamburger SV make their move for Breel Embolo
$19.1M on the table at Atlanta United FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hamburger SV rebuffed over Adam Hložek
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. TSG Hoffenheim have kept their man, and Hamburger SV go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Not going: Mario Vušković stays at Hamburger SV
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Darmstadt 98 had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Albert Sambi Lokonga signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Albert Sambi Lokonga commits to Hamburger SV for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tobias Krämer steps up from the Hamburger SV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tobias Krämer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Dominik Fischer joins the Hamburger SV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dominik Fischer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ralf Lang steps up from the Hamburger SV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ralf Lang has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Home is on Jordan Torunarigha's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hamburger SV are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hamburger SV
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Albert Sambi Lokonga knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Albert Grønbæk still has not settled