The TSG Hoffenheim Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $29.0M for Christoph Baumgartner
TSG Hoffenheim have gone to RB Leipzig with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Eric Smith
TSG Hoffenheim and St. Pauli have settled on $6.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Elia Caprile
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. TSG Hoffenheim have done the hard part with Cagliari, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim say no — this time
The offer from Mainz 05 for Wouter Burger was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim make their move for Lennart Karl
$10.7M on the table at Bayern Munich. 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
Wouter Burger raises the bar for TSG Hoffenheim
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at TSG Hoffenheim heard it as anything else.
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim go back to the board over Christoph Baumgartner
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $34.1M — a club that wants Christoph Baumgartner enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at TSG Hoffenheim
Ross Barkley and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- Market Adam Hložek attracts admirers
- Market Alexander Schäfer steps up from the TSG Hoffenheim academy
- The dugout Tim Lemperle gets it from the manager