Andrea Caleffi

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96 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market29 May 2028

Daniel Elfadli wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad29 May 2028

Words exchanged at Werder Bremen

Karl Hein 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.

Squad29 May 2028

A row about effort at Werder Bremen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Friedl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout29 May 2028

Tidjany Touré 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.

Squad29 May 2028

Andrea Caleffi stays put

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

Squad29 May 2028

7 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.

Market29 May 2028

A loan that did nothing for Oskar Wójcik

3 appearances and 0 goals is not a season away, it is a year lost. He is back at Werder Bremen no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their fault.

The dugout29 May 2028

Werder Bremen keep their word to Dante Sealy

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout29 May 2028

Niklas Stark 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

Back issues
56 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Aug 2027

The step up is real for Patrice Čović

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Werder Bremen

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

Squad23 Aug 2027

Benedict Hollerbach has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Jens Stage 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.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Patrice Čović 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

The Karl Hein story refuses to die

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

In brief