HSV transfer rumours: Does Sonny Kittel have to go if he doesn't get promoted?

Created: 04/30/2022, 11:24 am

By: Jan Knötzsch

The hope of the first division return of HSV is still there.

But what if things go wrong?

Then apparently even HSV driver Sonny Kittel is in question.

Hamburg – Hope dies last.

At least that's what it says.

And there's even a grain of truth in it: As long as everything is still mathematically possible, Hamburger SV's return to the first Bundesliga has not yet been shelved - and the hopes are still there.

In Hamburg, however, as even the last HSV fan should have noticed by now, a lot of things have to go right.

And the competition blunders on top of that.

This now also applies to FC St. Pauli, who are struggling on the way to promotion.

Nevertheless, HSV sports director Jonas Boldt and HSV sports director Michael Mutzel have the task of putting together an adequate squad for the coming season - whether for the second Bundesliga or the Bundesliga.

It is logical that the number of burgeoning HSV transfer rumors is also increasing.

Right in the middle of the latest of this kind: Sonny Kittel.

HSV transfer rumours: Sonny Kittel is the league's "assistant king" - but that's only one side of the coin

That Sonny Kittel is, as the statistics of the second Bundesliga prove, the best HSV scorer in the current season - and therefore just as important for the team of HSV coach Tim Walter as striker Robert Glatzel, about whom there have already been HSV transfer rumours Has.

While Robert Glatzel scores up front, Sonny Kittel is more of HSV's "king of assists".

The man who is supposed to put the hits on his teammates, who are supposed to keep up the HSV promotion euphoria, which has even arrived in distant Japan with the former HSV captain Gotoku Sakai.

And yet Sonny Kittel, who is the most successful preparer in the second division with 16 assists until the HSV game against his club 1. FC Ingolstadt, is divided.

HSV player Sonny Kittel on the ground: A snapshot that symbolizes the performance lows that he regularly experiences - is that why he will soon be over in Hamburg?

(24hamburg.de assembly) © Philipp Szyza/Baering/imago

For weeks and months, Sonny Kittel looked as if he would finally have made the leap to leader under HSV coach Tim Walter – but then Kittel plunged into his very personal crisis, which hit HSV twice.

In the victories of HSV against Karlsruhe and Regensburg, Sonny Kittel was not even in the starting line-up of the second division team from Hamburg, where Mario Vuskovic is said to wear the HSV jersey for a long time and there are rumors of HSV transfer about Manuel Wintzheimer.

HSV transfer rumours: Sonny Kittel is under scrutiny by those responsible – is his time with the Rothosen coming to an end?

After all: In the game against Regensburg, Sonny Kittel appeared again after his substitution at 3: 2 and 4: 2 and was involved in the creation of the two goals of HSV, who has a new super talent with Saido Balde, that of HSV already want to alienate top clubs - according to the latest HSV transfer rumours.

By the way, Giorgi Chakvetadze no longer exists - or not yet in increasing form.

Ckakvetadze will leave HSV - that much is certain.

His loan, which is dated until the end of the current season, will not be extended any further.

He gone in the summer.

Does this also apply to Sonny Kittel?

At least if HSV doesn't get promoted?

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“Sonny is having an outstanding season.

The best he has played for HSV”, HSV coach Tim Walter has only just stated, but the medal – as in so many cases – has two sides.

And there is not just the one from the "King of Templates" kittel, but also the one from the "crisis kittel", which, in addition to "ups", always has "downs" in a season.

Too many for HSV?

Yes.

At least that's what the Hamburger Abendblatt thinks, which reports that Kittel is under scrutiny from those responsible for HSV – a departure and HSV transfer rumors cannot be ruled out.

HSV transfer rumours: Sonny Kittel is one of the weakest defensive players in the second division – will that cost him his place in Hamburg?

In the event of promotion, Sonny Kittel should play with HSV in the Bundesliga – including against Eintracht Frankfurt, where not only did Kittel’s career begin as a 17-year-old in August 2017 with a game against HSV, but also Faride Alidou, who was still HSV soon to play, who will move to Hessen in the summer of 2022.

However, if HSV does not go, the Sonny Kittel chapter in the Volksparkstadion should be over.

Because the HSV midfielder lacks the necessary toughness and good duel values ​​in the backward movement.

Kittel is one of the weakest defensive players in the second Bundesliga.

The other side of the "template king" Sonny Kittel ..