Achref Abada

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Marked for Achref Abada

128 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Jan 2029

Frederik Rønnow damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market8 Jan 2029

Bayern Munich come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Union Berlin did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings8 Jan 2029

No sign of nerves from Loan Merrifield at 19 — 8.05

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Loan Merrifield did not need any: 8.05, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Achref Abada says Union Berlin went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings8 Jan 2029

A defender's goal wins it for Union Berlin — 7.87

1 for Leopold Querfeld, marked 7.87, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Muhammed Damar 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.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Josip Juranović 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 ratings8 Jan 2029

Woo-Yeong Jeong runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match6 Jan 2029

Leopold Querfeld rescues a point for Union Berlin

It needed Leopold Querfeld to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Heidenheim, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

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97 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom5 Jun 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Union Berlin

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Union Berlin is running low.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Muhammed Damar 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Words at Union Berlin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Skov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market5 Jun 2028

Oliver Burke is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Union Berlin has been clear about where Oliver Burke stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad5 Jun 2028

The manager makes an example of Oliver Burke

“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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Ansgar Knauff has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Union Berlin will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

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