£5m offer! HSV go all in for left-back | OneFootball

HSV have invested a little over ten million euros in the transfer market this summer. But that figure could soon rise significantly.

As transfer insider Nicolo Schira reported on X on Monday evening, the Hamburg club have significantly stepped up their efforts to sign Jacques Ekomié. The journalist reported that HSV have submitted an offer to French top-flight side SCO Angers worth four million euros plus one million euros in bonuses. The package is also said to include a five percent sell-on clause.

The interest in the 22-year-old is not new. The Rothosen were already looking closely at the Gabon international last winter. At the time, those in charge were searching for additional competition for first-choice player Miro Muheim. Since then, however, the situation has changed.

Muheim is heading into the season with only one year left on his contract. If HSV do not want to lose the Switzerland international on a free transfer in 2027, time is running out for a contract extension. If no agreement is reached, a sale this summer would likely be the most probable solution. Against this backdrop, it is hard to imagine HSV investing around five million euros just to put Ekomié on the bench as a backup.

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Ekomié could be a good fit for HSV’s new system

Then there is also the development of Louis Lemke. The 16-year-old academy product has so far been one of the biggest winners of pre-season and has played more minutes in friendlies than any other HSV outfield player. It therefore seems unrealistic that Lemke would suddenly drop back down the pecking order again.

Purely in terms of playing style, Ekomié would also open up interesting new options for the Hanseatic side. While Muheim’s strengths lie primarily in build-up play and he often moves into central areas, the much quicker Angers player tends to interpret the left side more like a wing-back. In HSV’s new 3-4-2-1 system without traditional wide players, that could be exactly the profile needed to provide both width and depth on the flank.

For now, though, one thing remains true: all of this is based entirely on a transfer rumor. Whether an offer has actually been made and how Angers respond to it will only become clear in the coming days.

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