Chuki

Central Midfielder - Werder Bremen
26 Nov 2026
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Marked for Chuki

12 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Oct 2026

Victor Boniface 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Salim Musah at Werder Bremen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Salim Musah is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

The game went through Julian Weigl — 7.04

Marked 7.04 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match17 Oct 2026

Werder Bremen caught on 91 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Union Berlin scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Justin Njinmah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match17 Oct 2026

Werder Bremen share the spoils with Union Berlin

A 1‑1 draw with Union Berlin leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jan Bergmann chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Victor Boniface left out for tactical reasons at Werder Bremen

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Market19 Oct 2026

The Jens Stage question follows Werder Bremen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jens Stage’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

  • Squad Chuki: “I am not a substitute”
  • Player ratings Keke Topp changes it off the bench
  • Squad The shirt belongs to Niklas Stark now
Back issues
11 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Oct 2026

Olivier Deman is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Werder Bremen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Chuki is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Werder Bremen

Alexis Vega and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Karl Hein stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Karl Hein and Werder Bremen agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market12 Oct 2026

Amos Pieper told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Amos Pieper has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Werder Bremen.

Squad12 Oct 2026

14 new faces, and Werder Bremen are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Ludovit Reis

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Alexis Vega story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Alexis Vega signs something — a contract at Werder Bremen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Amos Pieper asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

9 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Sep 2026

Werder Bremen taken apart

1‑4 to Borussia Dortmund, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Werder Bremen's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Werder Bremen has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Werder Bremen

Jens Stage was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market28 Sep 2026

Senne Lynen told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Senne Lynen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Werder Bremen.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Alexis Vega

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Home is on Mitchell Weiser's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Werder Bremen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Boardroom28 Sep 2026

Inquest at Werder Bremen

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A mistake Karl Hein will not forget

Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Jan Bergmann to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Chuki
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Karl Hein's mistake
  • The dugout Senne Lynen asks for a word with the manager