The TSG Hoffenheim Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Mile Svilar
TSG Hoffenheim asked and AS Roma said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim make their move for Badredine Bouanani
$18.2M on the table at VfB Stuttgart. 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
Too dear: TSG Hoffenheim walk away from Anatolii Trubin
$18.5M was the most the club would pay and Benfica were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim make their move for Phillip Tietz
$10.1M on the table at Mainz 05. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and TSG Hoffenheim did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Wouter Burger stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wouter Burger and TSG Hoffenheim agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oliver Baumann in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at TSG Hoffenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at TSG Hoffenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrej Kramarić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Wouter Burger
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wouter Burger, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Heinrich Mayer steps up from the TSG Hoffenheim academy
- Market One of our own: Lars Kühn joins the TSG Hoffenheim first team
- Market One of our own: Jonas Hahn joins the TSG Hoffenheim first team