Exhausted and satisfied, Piotr Trochowski finished the HSV training before the weekend off. The 26-year-old midfielder completed a tough running session with Tunay Torun, and the sore muscles after the badminton outing the day before are also subsiding. Trochowski is facing a groundbreaking year as his contract ends in 2011. He doesn’t know what will happen after that. “At the moment I don’t want to talk to HSV about an extension,” says the national player, who was not invited to the national team because of a now healed Achilles tendon injury.
HSV sports director Bastian Reinhardt had announced negotiations with Trochowski, but the interest is one-sided. “A lot has happened in the last few years. I want to wait and see before I plan my future. It’s still too early.” Trochowski alludes to his difficulties becoming a regular player at HSV under different coaches. He is dissatisfied with his standing at the club and says: “I can’t demand any guarantees – that doesn’t exist in the football business. But it’s easier for a player if he feels a certain level of trust. I’m strongest centrally behind the strikers. Here I almost always played on the wings.”
However, Armin Veh prefers other types of players there. “I rarely go deep behind the defensive lines to hit crosses from there.” But, according to Trochowski, the Spanish midfield stars Iniesta and Xavi wouldn’t do that either.
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