OMG — Oh My God

Training group two: The 2013/14 season began with a complete squad overhaul in the Kraichgau. Players like Daniel Williams, Igor de Camargo and Chris had left the club. Previously established players like Tim Wiese, Tobias Weis, Edson Braafheid, Matthias Jaissle and Matthieu Delpierre were banished to the so-called "Training Group 2" by coach Markus Gisdol — effectively sidelined and put on gardening leave.

Cup embarrassments: 1899 Hoffenheim seem to despise the "shortest route to Europe" via the DFB-Pokal. Since their 2008 Bundesliga promotion, the club have never progressed beyond the quarter-finals. From 2017 to 2019, they exited in the second round three years running. Their last appearance in the last eight was in 2014/15 (as of December 2019), when they were eliminated after extra time at BVB.

No appetite for Hoffe: TV broadcaster Sky showed 266 Bundesliga matches in the 2018/19 season. An average of five million viewers tuned in on matchdays; the top matches between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern München each attracted over two million. But there were also matches "nobody" wanted to watch. In 2018/19, exactly four matches fell below the technical minimum audience threshold — and Hoffenheim featured in all four.