Are Hamburg finding the key to Holtby
Lewis Holtby arranged a free transfer to Tottenham who then paid £1.5 million to secure him early, 28th January 2013, from German side Schalke 04.
He signed a four-and-a-half-year deal and just 2 days later made his Tottenham debut. He immediately endeared himself to Spurs fans with his passion and work ethic. However his career never progressed and a series of managers have determined that work without an end product wasn't good enough.
Under Mauricio Pochettino he had again displayed that work ethic and looked as if this season he would be the understudy to Erik Lamela, however Holtby wanted to be laying regular first-team football and Tottenham needed to offload some non-home grown players.
Therefore on 1st September he went on loan to Hamburger SV with the option to buy after a season. The Bundesliga season hasn't started well for him however with Hamburger SV sitting at the bottom of the table after 6 matches on only 2 points. They haven't won a game yet and have scored only 1 goal all season.
Results have been so bad the manager who took him to Hamburg, Mirko Slomka, has been dismissed and Joe Zinnbauer has taken his place. That is the sixth manager Holtby has had since January 2013, Andre Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, Felix Magath (Fulham), Mauricio Pochettino, Mirko Slomka and Joe Zinnbauer.
Zinnbauer immediately moved Holtby into the number 10 role and the 24-year-old is now starting to get talked about in the German media for his performances. He was their best player in the 0-0 draw with giants Bayern Munich and in the latest 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt. The Hamburger SV goal, their first of the season after they had secured the unwanted Bundesliga record for the longest period at the start of a season without scoring 507 minutes, was laid on by Holtby.
Prior to his assist he had rounded the keeper at the start of the second half only to hit the side netting from a tight angle before then playing in Nicolai Müller to give the 47,000 fans something to cheer about at last.
The pess report he has brought not only his work ethic but an invention to the role. It's a role many fans fans were suggesting he should have been playing at Tottenham, it's early days but suggestions are that Holtby is starting to look like the player we were keen to get hold of again.
He signed a four-and-a-half-year deal and just 2 days later made his Tottenham debut. He immediately endeared himself to Spurs fans with his passion and work ethic. However his career never progressed and a series of managers have determined that work without an end product wasn't good enough.
Under Mauricio Pochettino he had again displayed that work ethic and looked as if this season he would be the understudy to Erik Lamela, however Holtby wanted to be laying regular first-team football and Tottenham needed to offload some non-home grown players.
Therefore on 1st September he went on loan to Hamburger SV with the option to buy after a season. The Bundesliga season hasn't started well for him however with Hamburger SV sitting at the bottom of the table after 6 matches on only 2 points. They haven't won a game yet and have scored only 1 goal all season.
Results have been so bad the manager who took him to Hamburg, Mirko Slomka, has been dismissed and Joe Zinnbauer has taken his place. That is the sixth manager Holtby has had since January 2013, Andre Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, Felix Magath (Fulham), Mauricio Pochettino, Mirko Slomka and Joe Zinnbauer.
Zinnbauer immediately moved Holtby into the number 10 role and the 24-year-old is now starting to get talked about in the German media for his performances. He was their best player in the 0-0 draw with giants Bayern Munich and in the latest 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt. The Hamburger SV goal, their first of the season after they had secured the unwanted Bundesliga record for the longest period at the start of a season without scoring 507 minutes, was laid on by Holtby.
Prior to his assist he had rounded the keeper at the start of the second half only to hit the side netting from a tight angle before then playing in Nicolai Müller to give the 47,000 fans something to cheer about at last.
The pess report he has brought not only his work ethic but an invention to the role. It's a role many fans fans were suggesting he should have been playing at Tottenham, it's early days but suggestions are that Holtby is starting to look like the player we were keen to get hold of again.
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