Tiago Poller

Defensive Midfielder - Werder Bremen
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Tiago Poller

20 Edition

The TSG Hoffenheim Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Fisnik Asllani's — 9.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

TSG Hoffenheim cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The terraces

TSG Hoffenheim supporters have found a favourite in Max Moerstedt

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Max Moerstedt has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

TSG Hoffenheim get the job done against Mainz 05

A 2‑0 win over Mainz 05, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Bernardo makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Player ratings

Bernardo shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSG Hoffenheim

Jackson Irvine and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Patrick Wimmer

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Ozan Kabak was immovable

16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Eren Dinkçi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. 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.

Match

4 matches without a win for Werder Bremen

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Werder Bremen are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Werder Bremen

Jens Stage and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Tiago Poller is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Werder Bremen

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

Werder Bremen come up short against Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Marco Friedl is still paying for one afternoon at Werder Bremen

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Lukas Friedrich left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Marco Friedl now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Werder Bremen can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

In brief

5 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Robin Roefs

Werder Bremen and Sunderland have settled on $25.9M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings

Eren Dinkçi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. 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.

Market

Justin Njinmah asks to leave Werder Bremen

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Alexander Schlager stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jonas Urbig

Werder Bremen asked and Bayern Munich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Werder Bremen bid $6.3M for Luca Kilian

The offer went to Köln this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

Werder Bremen go back to the board over Luca Kilian

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.6M — a club that wants Luca Kilian enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Tiago Poller

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Werder Bremen have done the hard part with TSG Hoffenheim, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Werder Bremen

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

In brief