After the Nice fiasco: HSV put their faith in Königsdörffer! | OneFootball

After his failed move to Nice, Ransford Königsdörffer is returning to HSV, where they are still counting on him.

Ransford Königsdörffer is staying with Hamburger SV! At the Volkspark, he is expected to play a central role again despite the failed transfer to OGC Nice. After the French club surprisingly cancelled the transfer due to discrepancies during the medical check, the 23-year-old attacker is now returning to training.

"I'm sorry for him because he had imagined it differently and we would have given him the opportunity to change," Merlin Polzin is quoted as saying by kicker on Tuesday. "But Ransi is and remains a part of our club, and I'm happy about it because he's had hardly any days off in his three years with us."

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Königsdörffer "takes life as it comes"

The failed transfer apparently has to do with old knee injuries from his youth days at Hertha BSC. In his five years as a professional, first at Dynamo Dresden and then at HSV, Königsdörffer has been largely injury-free. The medical concerns of Nice are therefore hardly an issue for Hamburg. Instead, the focus is on the player's mental handling of the missed opportunity for a possible Champions League season. The striker could also have moved into a different financial sphere on the Côte d'Azur.

Polzin, who has a close relationship with Königsdörffer, has already sought out the conversation and is convinced: "Whoever knows Ransi knows that he takes life as it comes." His relaxed, sometimes naive nature is often an advantage in pressure situations. This was last seen in the final spurt of the past season when the Ghanaian national player became one of the biggest heroes of HSV's promotion. Among other things, he scored a brace in the decisive 6-1 win against SSV Ulm.

Königsdörffer is now expected to be an important factor in the new season. He will be part of the team at the upcoming training camp on Mallorca, as originally planned. And also from a strategic point of view, his return brings planning security for the Rothosen: instead of a new striker, the focus is now on signing a right-back and center-back.

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