The Hamburger SV Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Eric Smith is a medical away from Hamburger SV
The deal with St. Pauli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hamburger SV baulk at the price for Luca Philipp
TSG Hoffenheim wanted more than $5.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Elias Baum
Hamburger SV asked and Eintracht Frankfurt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
HNK Rijeka come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hamburger SV did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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
Anton Seidel steps up from the Hamburger SV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anton Seidel 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: Tim Frank joins the Hamburger SV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tim Frank 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
One of our own: Stefan Beck joins the Hamburger SV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Beck is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Hamburger SV
- The dugout Albert Sambi Lokonga knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Albert Grønbæk still has not settled