Stephan Bauer

Attacking Midfielder (R) - TSG Hoffenheim U18
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Stephan Bauer

20 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

TSG Hoffenheim turn down Botafogo for Bernardo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Stephan Bauer breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Max Moerstedt at 20 — 7.81

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Max Moerstedt did not need any: 7.81, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Bernardo wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSG Hoffenheim

Andrej Kramarić 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.

Match

Max Moerstedt rescues a point for TSG Hoffenheim

It needed Max Moerstedt to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against VfL Wolfsburg, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Marcel Schmid: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Alexander Prass is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad

A TSG Hoffenheim teenager takes the young player award

Max Moerstedt is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

TSG Hoffenheim tear Union Berlin apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Union Berlin, and it could have been more.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Bauer out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason TSG Hoffenheim will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Fisnik Asllani takes the afternoon — 8.33

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fisnik Asllani provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Max Moerstedt, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.03

A mark of 8.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Andrej Kramarić, 35, rolls back the years — 8.55

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.55 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Max Moerstedt

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Union Berlin blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Union Berlin tried to reorganise, TSG Hoffenheim did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Loan watch

11 goals on loan for Gift Orban

14 appearances at Amedspor and the goals keep coming. TSG Hoffenheim are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Ihlas Bebou 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.

In brief

18 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Fisnik Asllani scores twice — 9.09

Two goals and a mark of 9.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

35 days out for Stephan Bauer after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. TSG Hoffenheim will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Alexander Prass runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

TSG Hoffenheim find a way past Heidenheim

Heidenheim made TSG Hoffenheim work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Adam Daghim

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Words at TSG Hoffenheim training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ihlas Bebou 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 dugout

Bruno Ogbus gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

A satisfied Marcel Schmid

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Marcel Schmid could afford to be generous.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a TSG Hoffenheim man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Fisnik Asllani was the best thing in any of them.

In brief

17 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Ihlas Bebou sends TSG Hoffenheim through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Ihlas Bebou obliged against Fortuna Düsseldorf. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is TSG Hoffenheim.

Market

Bernardo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at TSG Hoffenheim, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Ihlas Bebou scores twice — 8.80

Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Bauer out for 43 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason TSG Hoffenheim will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Bruno Ogbus keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” TSG Hoffenheim may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Cole Campbell, 20, steals the show — 7.68

Marked 7.68 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Oliver Baumann gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Luka Đurić

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

A bad afternoon for TSG Hoffenheim against Borussia Dortmund

0‑2 to Borussia Dortmund, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

16 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

52 days out for Stephan Bauer after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. TSG Hoffenheim will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Fisnik Asllani wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Ihlas Bebou 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.

Squad

Timéo Lelong-Chrétien 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.

Market

The Leon Avdullahu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. TSG Hoffenheim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Looking ahead

Cole Campbell goes back to face Borussia Dortmund

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Cole Campbell’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and TSG Hoffenheim needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Yannick Eduardo’s exile

6 goals in 7 games at ADO Den Haag — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at TSG Hoffenheim updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad

Mats Rots has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and TSG Hoffenheim will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Precious Benjamin’s exile

3 goals in 11 games at Austria Lustenau — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at TSG Hoffenheim updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief