Leon Hoffmann

Striker - Nürnberg U18
6 Aug 2027
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The Nürnberg Post

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match3 Apr 2027

The wait goes on for Nürnberg

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Words exchanged at Nürnberg

Jonas Urbig 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.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The step up is real for Mertcan Ayhan

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad5 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Nürnberg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Markhiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Nürnberg lose Leon Hoffmann

29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

Ayoube Amaimouni-Echghouyab runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch5 Apr 2027

Dustin Forkel wants to come home

“I did not go to Eintracht Braunschweig to sit and watch. I want to come back to Nürnberg and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Rafael Lubach 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.

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

Joe Scally takes the honours

Marked 7.20 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nürnberg had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

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The Nürnberg Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Nürnberg agree $2.6M for Kevin Krumme

The clubs have shaken hands with SC Paderborn; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Wouter Burger

Nürnberg asked and TSG Hoffenheim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

31 days out for René Frank after a fracture

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

Market24 Aug 2026

Nürnberg say no — this time

The offer from Haladas for Robin Lisewski 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Leon Hoffmann hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nürnberg can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Pascal Stenzel turns down Nürnberg

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: VfB Stuttgart keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Nürnberg

Marcus Mathisen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Rio Robbemond arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Rio Robbemond has, at Nürnberg, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Adam Markhiev 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

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The Nürnberg Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Nürnberg bid $16.7M for Kaishu Sano

The offer went to Mainz 05 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Tim Lemperle

Nürnberg asked and TSG Hoffenheim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Aug 2026

46 days out for René Frank after a fracture

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Marcus Mathisen would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marcus Mathisen is living that version at Nürnberg, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Piet Scobel stays at Nürnberg

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Doncaster Rovers had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Nürnberg go back to the board over Kaishu Sano

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $19.1M — a club that wants Kaishu Sano enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Adam Markhiev stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Markhiev and Nürnberg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Nürnberg

Marcus Mathisen 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Danilo Soares moves on

Hamburger SV pay $420.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief