[FM21] - Hamburg SV: Rebuilding Rothosen

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2007 was the last time Hamburg were in the Champions League, and in 2018, for the first time, they were relegated to the Bundesliga 2. My aim, after taking over Daniel Thioune, is to return them back to former glory. 

Note: I've actually been doing this save for a little bit now, so I haven't only just started it, got to Christmas for season 1, but it's taken me a while to find this forum 

                                                    Overview

                                         

Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (German: [hamˈbʊʁɡɐ ˌʃpɔʁt fɛɐ̯ˈʔaɪ̯n]), commonly known as Hamburger SV, Hamburg or HSV ([haː ʔɛs ˈfaʊ̯]), is a German sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department. Although the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three earlier clubs, it officially traces its origin to 29 September 1887 when the first of the predecessors, SC Germania, was founded. Until 2018 when the team were relegated for the first time in history, HSV's football team had the distinction of being the only team that had played continuously in the top tier of the German football league system since the founding of the club at the end of World War I. It was consequently also the only team that had played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963.

Hamburger SV

Full name	Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V.
Nickname(s)	Die Rothosen (The Red Shorts) Der Dino (The Dinosaur)
Short name	HSV
Founded	29 September 1887; 133 years ago (as SC Germania) 2 June 1919; 101 years ago (as Hamburger SV)
Ground	Volksparkstadion
Capacity	57,000
President	Marcell Jansen
Executive Board	Frank Wettstein Jonas Boldt
Head coach	Daniel Thioune
League	2. Bundesliga
2019–20	2. Bundesliga, 4th of 18
Website	Club Website

HSV has won the German national championship six times, the DFB-Pokal three times and the League Cup twice. The team's most successful period was from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s when, in addition to several domestic honours, they won the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1982–83 European Cup. The outstanding players of this period were Horst Hrubesch, Manfred Kaltz, and Felix Magath, all of whom were regulars in the German National Team. To date, HSV's last major trophy was the 1986–87 DFB-Pokal.

HSV play their home games at the Volksparkstadion in Bahrenfeld, a western district of Hamburg. The club colours are officially blue, white and black but the home kit of the team is white jerseys and red shorts. The team's most common nickname is "die Rothosen" (the Red Shorts). As it is one of Germany's oldest clubs, it is also known as der Dinosaurier (the Dinosaur). HSV have rivalries with Werder Bremen, with whom they contest the Nordderby, and Hamburg-based FC St. Pauli, with whom they contest the Hamburg derby.

HSV is notable in football as a grassroots organisation with youth development a strong theme. The club had a team in the Women's Bundesliga from 2003 to 2012 but it was demoted to Regionalliga level because of financial problems. Other club departments include badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, darts, ice hockey, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, handball, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation exercises. These departments represent about 10% of the club membership. HSV is one of the biggest sports clubs in Germany with over 84,000 members in all its departments^[1] and stated by Forbes to have been among the 20 largest football clubs in the world.^[2]  

 

                                                The Team

                        Not only is it always nice to rebuild a sleeping giant, but within our Hamburg team we have some very good, decent PA young players for long term, to name a few:

Amadou Onana - our DM, nobody really too much better then him, has good PA and a very good long term player which is what I need in this save.

Rick Van Drongelen: solid player beside our other CB Ambrosius, starts the season off injured and is so until early January (im around christmas season 1 on my save, so he isn't fully back just yet)

Bakery Jatta: our winger, very good player and has been our main goalscoring outlet so far. Hopefully we keep onto him for a long time, he has potential for sure.

Stephen Ambrosius- our other centre back, not as good as Drongelen but again has decent PA and is another long term player.

 

                                Transfer Window: main ins and outs

                Tbf, we weren't very active in the market, with a budget of only around 1 million, but here are the 2 ins and 2 outs anyway:

                                                       Ins:

                   Luis Carbonell- a 17 year old striker from Zaragoza who'll be the replacement for Wintzheimer. Good PA and another long term player

                   Unai Vencedor- a wonderkid DM who'll play with Onana in my 4-2-3-1, didn't have the finances to get him on a permanent basis so he's only a season long loan for now, hopefully somewhere in the future we can get him permanently.

                   

                                                         Outs:

Khaled Narey: wanted to join West Brom as they played in a higher league. He'll regret that.

Martin Wintzheimer: replaced with Carbonell as he was aging.

     As the season goes I'll update you about what happens, hopefully you're enjoying this thread so far