The Union Berlin Chronicle
Market25 Jan 2027
Christopher Trimmel puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Union Berlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Woo-Yeong Jeong
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Union Berlin count the cost of losing Duje Slišković
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Union Berlin
Rani Khedira 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Union Berlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Skov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Jan 2027
Union Berlin come up short against VfL Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 Leon Becker left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
A promise honoured at Union Berlin
Something was said to Michel Aebischer and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Chuki behind
- The dugout Vito Mannone dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Andrej Ilić could have had three