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Important regular player threatens to fail against Nuremberg

Updated on 02.04.2025 – 11:35 a.m.Reading time: 8 min.

After the start of the season, Jonas Meffert and the HSV are back on the bottom of the tapes.Enlarge the picture

Jonas Meffert: The midfielder collided with a teammate in the HSV training camp. (Source: Imago/Michael Taeger)

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Hamburger SV has to worry about the use of midfielder Jonas Meffert before the important away game at the 1st FC Nürnberg. The 30-year-old contracted a broken nose in the training camp on Mallorca on a collision with newcomer Emir Sahiti and then traveled back to Hamburg prematurely.

It remains uncertain whether Meffert is ready for use in good time. The rest of the team completes a last training session on the Spanish island on Wednesday before going back to northern Germany. The game against Nuremberg will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m. (live at Sky).

Hamburger SV has reached a new milestone and now counts 120,000 club members. As the second division club announced, only six other clubs in Germany belong to such a large group of members. President Marcell Jansen was pleased with the constant growth: “This sensational brand once again proves how the cohesion within the HSV family is.”

A year ago, the traditional club had counted 110,000 members. For comparison: FC Bayern Munich announced at the end of February that he now had 400,000 members – as well as Benfica Lisbon. Both clubs are therefore the top of the highest membership football clubs worldwide.

Hamburger SV has completed its first training session in the short training camp in Mallorca in bright sunshine. On the site of RCD Mallorca, coach Merlin Polzin had to do without Immanuel Pherai and Dennis Hadžikadunić. Pherai stayed with a fever in the hotel, Hadžikadunić followed the training from the side of the side. The defender had cheated his shoulder at 0-0 against SV Elversberg.

The lead in the league, but Hamburger SV is not deterred by this: Hamburger SV does not leave anything to chance in the end of the season of the 2nd Bundesliga. One day after the 0-0 against SV Elversberg, the second in the table announced a short training camp in Mallorca. From Sunday to Wednesday, the team is preparing for the crucial weeks in the promotion battle.

“We want to consciously out of everyday training in Hamburg and get in the mood for the final sprint with intensive and focused units and work on numerous details,” said HSV head coach Merlin Polzin. Team formation is also important: “We will deliberately spend a lot of time together in order to combine even more closely as a team.”

RB Leipzig uses the cadre planning for the coming season in the event of a youth hope of the HSV. As the Pay TV broadcaster Sky reports, the Leipziger has secured Manuel Abbey’s services. The 16-year-old offensive player comes from the offspring of Hamburger SV and has already signed a contract. In return, the HSV receives training compensation.

Manuel Abbey went through the youth departments at HSV for six years. In summer it is now part of the Leipzig Young Talent Project.

Abbey’s change is already the second well -known youth transfer within a few hours: Previously, RB had strengthened with Warren Ngana (also 16) from Djurgharmens IF.

Goal scorer Davie Selke would be ready to do without up to a million euros in an annual salary in order to continue to play for HSV. According to the “Bild” newspaper, a Bundesliga club has already registered concrete interest and offers the 30-year-old an annual salary of “well over 2 million euros”. Selke’s contract expires in summer, but would extend itself by one year if it is ascent.

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