The Heidenheim Chronicle
Market3 Aug 2026
Heidenheim turn down Austria Wien for Marvin Pieringer
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marvin Pieringer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marvin Pieringer commits to Heidenheim for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Heidenheim
Patrick Mainka 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mathias Honsak 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Benfica tell Heidenheim: Samuel Soares 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Marvin Pieringer's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Heidenheim try to borrow Luca Philipp
TSG Hoffenheim have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kacper Potulski is in the works
Heidenheim have made the call to Mainz 05. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Patrick Mainka knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Mainka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad Nicolas De Préville is a square peg at Heidenheim
- Market Experience through the door at Heidenheim
- Market Talks stall between Heidenheim and Tobias Weigel