No HSV return: Hadzikadunic joins new club | OneFootball

Dennis Hadzikadunic significantly contributed to the return to the Bundesliga with his stable performances. However, he had no future at HSV, but rather in the ranks of another traditional club.

Near the end of Deadline Day, Sampdoria announced the signing of Dennis Hadzikadunic. This is a one-year loan, where the Italian second division club - like Hamburger SV - took advantage of the FIFA regulation that allows foreign professionals in Russian clubs to opt out of their contract for a year since the beginning of the war on Ukraine.

HSV took advantage of this opportunity twice to secure Hadzikadunic after a decent debut year. In the past season, he established himself as a clear regular player and formed an excellently harmonizing center-back duo with Daniel Elfadli. Thanks to a defense improved under Merlin Polzin, the long-awaited promotion was finally achieved.

Hadzikadunic remains second-class

In the weeks that followed, there was a chance of staying in the Hanseatic city. In the end, however, the decision-makers decided against the 28-time Bosnian national player and instead signed Jordan Torunarigha Wamed Omari and Luka Vuskovic, who was presented shortly before the defeat in the city derby, as three new center-backs. The strong duelist Hadzikadunic, on the other hand, had to stay with his actual employer FK Rostov, which he joined in 2018.

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Since the outbreak of the war, he has been drawn to Malmö, Mallorca, and Hamburg. Now the next exciting task awaits the right-footer. Sampdoria, like HSV, looks back on a glorious past, having won the Scudetto (1991), the Coppa Italia four times, and the Cup Winners' Cup (1990), and reached the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1992. However, the traditional club from Genoa is now in its third year in the second division, and almost fell into the third division in the past season.

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