The Heidenheim Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Heidenheim say no — this time
The offer from Köln for Omar Traoré 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Heidenheim baulk at the price for Dan-Axel Zagadou
VfB Stuttgart wanted more than $9.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lars Ritzka gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lars Ritzka has just signed for Heidenheim, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Budu Zivzivadze 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 Heidenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Mouscron tell Heidenheim: Leander Openda is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonas Föhrenbach 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Fiete Arp in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Heidenheim are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Heidenheim and Lars Ritzka
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market24 Aug 2026
Patrick Mainka linked with a move away
The name of Patrick Mainka keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Heidenheim say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market No place for Patrick Koch in the plan
- The dugout Patrick Koch knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead An away day at Borussia Dortmund next for Heidenheim