The TSG Hoffenheim Post
Market25 Oct 2032
Nahuel Olmedo asks to leave TSG Hoffenheim
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout25 Oct 2032
Mikkel Fischer 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.
Market25 Oct 2032
Tim Paumgartner is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at TSG Hoffenheim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2032
A falling-out at TSG Hoffenheim
Aleix García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2032
A row about effort at TSG Hoffenheim
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Woo-Yeong Jeong was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Oct 2032
The drought breaks for TSG Hoffenheim
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and St. Pauli were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match23 Oct 2032
TSG Hoffenheim make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match23 Oct 2032
Fabrizio Cavegn sends TSG Hoffenheim past St. Pauli
It finished 2‑0, and it was Fabrizio Cavegn’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to TSG Hoffenheim.
The dugout25 Oct 2032
The manager makes an example of Benjamin Henrichs
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Fabrizio Cavegn at his very best
- Squad A muscle injury sidelines Peter König for 14 days
- The dugout The view from the dugout