The Hamburger SV Sentinel
Squad27 Aug 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Mikelbrencis
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hamburger SV lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Rayan Philippe
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match25 Aug 2029
4 matches without a win for Hamburger SV
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hamburger SV are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Cuiabano 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 Hamburger SV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Albert Sambi Lokonga falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Graduation day at Hamburger SV
12 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A late step up for William Mikelbrencis
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market27 Aug 2029
One of our own: Hans Busch joins the Hamburger SV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hans Busch is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Aug 2029
Hamburger SV promote David Schmid from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Schmid has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Hamburger SV promote Daniel Lehmann from within
- Market Hamburger SV promote Oliver Busch from within
- Match Hamburger SV come up short against St. Pauli