Alan Bikoumou

Right Midfielder - Union Berlin
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Alan Bikoumou

43 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Union Berlin are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Squad

A falling-out at Union Berlin

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

Squad

Woo-Yeong Jeong 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.

Market

The Andrej Ilić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Union Berlin know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Oliver Burke has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Oliver Burke has written the date down.

The dugout

Matheo Raab 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

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19 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Emmanuel Latte Lath 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

András Schäfer wants more than Union Berlin are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Christopher Trimmel stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Christopher Trimmel and Union Berlin agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Alan Bikoumou arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Alan Bikoumou has, at Union Berlin, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Rani Khedira 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.

Player ratings

Andrej Ilić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Union Berlin find a way past Hamburger SV

Hamburger SV made Union Berlin work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Janik Haberer

Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Tim Skarke gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief