Romano Schmid

Central Midfielder - Werder Bremen
31 Aug 2026
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Marked for Romano Schmid

3 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Werder Bremen sign Rihito Yamamoto for $8.1M

The paperwork is done: Rihito Yamamoto joins from SC Freiburg in a deal worth $8.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Market17 Aug 2026

Rodrigo Ribeiro is a Werder Bremen player

The fee is $5.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. FC Augsburg drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Werder Bremen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Friedl is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Romano Schmid stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Romano Schmid and Werder Bremen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jens Stage in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Werder Bremen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marco Friedl falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Romano Schmid's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jens Stage knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jens Stage trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Werder Bremen and Chuki

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief