Luca Philipp

Goalkeeper - TSG Hoffenheim
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54 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad9 Aug 2027

Oliver Baumann 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.

Market9 Aug 2027

Alexander Prass wants more than TSG Hoffenheim are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Tim Lemperle 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 Tim Lemperle trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

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The TSG Hoffenheim Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tempers go at TSG Hoffenheim

Oliver Baumann 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.

Market2 Aug 2027

Robin Hranáč wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at TSG Hoffenheim hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

TSG Hoffenheim release $2.9M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tim Lemperle knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at TSG Hoffenheim, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market2 Aug 2027

The Fisnik Asllani story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Fisnik Asllani signs something — a contract at TSG Hoffenheim or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market2 Aug 2027

TSG Hoffenheim put Eric Smith up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Eric Smith may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

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22 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2026

Luca Philipp: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” TSG Hoffenheim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Andrej Kramarić 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Florián Monzón 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 TSG Hoffenheim know it.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Patrick Wimmer

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Ozan Kabak in the eights

A performance of 9.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Oliver Baumann

“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.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Wages eat 104% of everything TSG Hoffenheim earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match26 Dec 2026

Honours even between TSG Hoffenheim and Borussia Mönchengladbach

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Petar Musa keeps on missing

Shots: 14, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

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