Tom Bader

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Köln
15 Jun 2031
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254 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

9 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match9 Jun 2031

Every point is an argument now for Köln

Position 16 and 24 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market9 Jun 2031

Kevin Stöger asks to leave Köln

“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.

Transfer targets9 Jun 2031

An offer of $13.8M for Marc Guiu

Köln have gone to SC Freiburg with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market9 Jun 2031

Daniel Elfadli is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Köln is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets9 Jun 2031

Köln make their move for Hilmir Rafn Mikaelsson

$5.0M on the table at RB Leipzig. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Tom Bader 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. Tom Bader has, at Köln, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Words exchanged at Köln

Alexis Vega 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.

Boardroom9 Jun 2031

Köln to lose Daniel Elfadli for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Daniel Elfadli has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Boardroom9 Jun 2031

Köln still without a manager

8 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

In brief

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The FC Augsburg Herald

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match19 Jan 2030

No end in sight to FC Augsburg's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Augsburg has to find a result from somewhere.

Market21 Jan 2030

Youri Baas has said yes to Bayern Munich

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FC Augsburg have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market21 Jan 2030

FC Augsburg turn down VfL Wolfsburg for Yannick Gerhardt

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market21 Jan 2030

Tom Bader asks to leave FC Augsburg

“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.

Match19 Jan 2030

The goals have deserted FC Augsburg

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at FC Augsburg can tell you which week it ends in.

Player ratings21 Jan 2030

Nobody could get near Elias Saad

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Alexis Claude-Maurice 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 FC Augsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom21 Jan 2030

Dachi Lordkipanidze signs for Werder Bremen while still at FC Augsburg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dachi Lordkipanidze has agreed terms with Werder Bremen for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Elias Saad 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.

In brief

171 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Nov 2029

A fracture rules Niklas Süle out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Augsburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market5 Nov 2029

Lukas Klostermann wants more than FC Augsburg 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

A falling-out at FC Augsburg

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

Squad5 Nov 2029

Words at FC Augsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Fellhauer 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.

Match3 Nov 2029

FC Augsburg come up short against Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad5 Nov 2029

A month that belonged to Tom Bader

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at FC Augsburg who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

No hiding place for Florian Kainz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Florian Kainz, and the manager let it.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

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 0‑1 Niklas Braun left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

Yannick Gerhardt knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Augsburg, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief