TM interview on Twitch
After a successful start to the new year, Hamburger SV travels to Rostock for the northern duel at the weekend, where the Walter team wants to take the positive momentum from the 4-2 home win against Eintracht Braunschweig with them. Keeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes speaks in advance at Transfermarkt about the integration of the newcomers, looks back on the transfer stalemate around Sonny Kittel and orders what is probably the most spectacular deadline day transfer from a German point of view, João Cancelo, with whom he is part of Portugal’s U21 national team played, a.
The “Red Pants” signed three new professionals in the past winter transfer window: the defenders Noah Katterbach (Cologne) and Javi Montero (Besiktas) were loaned to the Elbe, while the services of the talented Hungarian center forward András Németh from KRC Genk were let for 750,000 cost euros. The latter, like Katterbach, was able to get a taste of second division air for a minute against Braunschweig last Sunday, while the Spaniard Montero is still waiting to play. It is considered unlikely that the two defensive players in particular will collect game minutes against Rostock. Although coach Tim Walter gave them positive feedback during the week (“You’re doing very well”), the coach at Hansa should initially bet on the same starting XI as against Lower Saxony.
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Meanwhile, Heuer Fernandes, who works during the week, also confirms Walter’s basic satisfaction with the winter transfers in the Transfermarkt twitch stream was a guest. “All three players bring a very high quality and are very positive within the team,” attests the 30-year-old goalkeeper. The integration went smoothly. You communicate within the team or at team meetings for the most part in German, but in one-to-one conversations you also do so in English if necessary. A Montero already had the basics needed on the pitch after the first few days, according to Heuer Fernandes.
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HSV only lost full-back Tim Leibold, who made his way to Kansas City in Major League Soccer on a free transfer. In offensive power Sonny Kittel, another was almost added, the 30-year-old, who was about to say goodbye last summer, but decided after “careful consideration” against a transfer to Saudi Arabia despite having already completed a medical check-up. The hanging game, which lasted several days, was also an issue within the team, reports Heuer Fernandes: “To be honest, we all thought that Sonny was gone. But it was all the better for the team when he was back in the dressing room.”
Kittel is “a difference player who is brutally important. He has a strong opinion and represents it on and off the pitch, so he’s an asset for us in every respect,” said the keeper, who added: “Of course I hope that he will help us in the second half of the season and for one or the other decisive moment.” The Bochum native with Portuguese roots did “take note” of the fact that direct competitors in the fight for promotion did not remain idle during the winter break, but did not want to judge it: “Of course you can see that Darmstadt, for example has signed a new striker or other teams are making transfers, but first and foremost we are concentrating on ourselves.”
However, Heuer Fernandes could not avoid a change one floor up that surprised many: the loan of full-back João Cancelo from Manchester City to FC Bayern Munich. The Portuguese came to Säbener Straße on loan until the end of the season, after which the record champions have a purchase option, which according to media reports is 70 million euros. “This transfer from FC Bayern surprised me too, you can only congratulate them. I didn’t expect that because he had a lot of playing time at Manchester City,” says Hamburg’s number one about the change of his former team-mate – Cancelo and Heuer Fernandes played together in Portugal’s U21 team. “A really good player with a top character and one of the best full-backs at the moment,” said the six-time international.
Heuer Fernandes was optimistic about the numerous user questions from the Twitch stream regarding the intended promotion to the Bundesliga of Hamburg, who are two points behind table leaders Darmstadt before the Rostock game: “We have defined a clear goal and the motivation working for it every day is great. If we continue to take on the next few games like we did against Braunschweig, then it will be difficult to beat us. I’m convinced that we have enough quality to win every game. We have to bring that onto the pitch and then I’m confident that we’ll be rewarded for it at the end of the season.”
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