After staying up, when will HSV reward its coaching staff? | OneFootball

Kathleen Krüger has barely begun her work at HSV, and already a key personnel decision is awaiting the new board member for sport.

The focus is on Merlin Polzin and his longtime companion Loïc Favé. According to Bild, both do not want to go into the coming season with expiring contracts. Even before the summer break, they were said to have wanted early clarity about their situation at the club.

From the coaching staff’s point of view, that is entirely understandable. Polzin led HSV back to the Bundesliga in 2025 and secured survival a year later. The 35-year-old is enormously popular with fans and staff alike and is probably the club’s most prominent face nationwide. Favé, meanwhile, is regarded as an extremely talented tactician with a good feel for young players.

However, no concrete talks about the future have taken place so far. According to Bild, one reason for that was that the club first wanted to wait for Kathleen Krüger to officially take up her post. The new board member for sport has officially been in office since the beginning of July and is currently getting an overview of all sporting matters.

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HSV: The chemistry between Polzin and Krüger is right!

The cooperation between Krüger and the coaching staff appears to be getting off to a promising start. Speaking to Sky only recently, Polzin described the exchange as “intensive, very focused and goal-oriented — in relation to what we want to achieve together with HSV.” The chemistry also works on a personal level. “That’s why it’s been a very positive and pleasant exchange,” said the HSV coach. “Especially when it came to culture and leadership, there were many things where we noticed that we think in the same direction.”

That is precisely why the issue of a contract extension is likely to move onto the agenda very soon. While squad planning still involves plenty of unresolved issues despite the signing of Martin Adeline, Polzin and Favé want one thing above all: planning certainty beyond the summer of 2027. The decision-makers have until the first round of the DFB-Pokal at SC Verl (24 August, 6 p.m.) to grant that wish.

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