The Magdeburg Sentinel
Market28 May 2029
Virgil Ghiţă hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Magdeburg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 May 2029
Tempers go at Magdeburg
Ionuţ Radu 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.
Squad28 May 2029
Mateusz Żukowski 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 dugout28 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Jean Hugonet
“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.
The dugout28 May 2029
Kamron Dimata-Gomis 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.
Market28 May 2029
Magdeburg put Alexander Ahl Holmström up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexander Ahl Holmström may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market28 May 2029
Alexander Ahl Holmström runs his contract down
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Magdeburg money.
The terraces28 May 2029
The Kacper Kościerski rumours reach the terraces
What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Magdeburg would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.
The dugout28 May 2029
Amil Siljevic 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 Amil Siljevic has written the date down.
In brief
- Squad More bad news for Jean Hugonet
- Market The Stefan Smarkalev story refuses to die
- Squad The penny has dropped for Franz Roggow