The Hamburger SV Sentinel
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Hamburger SV agree $32.1M for Jens Petter Hauge
The clubs have shaken hands with Atalanta; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market30 Aug 2027
Nicolás Capaldo 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 The request is on a desk at Hamburger SV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Greuther Fürth tell Hamburger SV: Isac Lidberg 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Mateusz Kochalski arrives at Hamburger SV as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Mateusz Kochalski is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Market30 Aug 2027
Hamburger SV turn down Hannover 96 for Levin Öztunali
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Immanuel Pherai wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Hamburger SV know it.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hamburger SV
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
$8.5M for Mateusz Kochalski, and Hamburger SV supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Mateusz Kochalski from CSKA Moscow for $8.5M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Match28 Aug 2027
Hamburger SV get the job done against St. Pauli
A 2‑1 win over St. Pauli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Patrick Vogel joins the Hamburger SV first team
- Player ratings A masterclass from Albert Grønbæk
- Boardroom A promise the Hamburger SV board did not keep