Philipp Arnold

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Nürnberg U18
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Marked for Philipp Arnold

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The Nürnberg Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Philipp Arnold damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Nürnberg

0‑3 against Greuther Fürth, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Jan Reichert keeps Nürnberg in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nürnberg

Semir Telalović 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.

Squad

Adam Markhiev 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Nürnberg

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

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 0‑3 Sven Sauer left the room before anybody could ask which.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Nürnberg

Hertha BSC top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jan Reichert

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

In brief

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The Nürnberg Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Philipp Arnold

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nürnberg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Javier Fernández at 19 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Javier Fernández did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Levin Chiumento has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nürnberg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Nürnberg make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Nürnberg have 3 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Julian Justvan has a hand in both — 7.96

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.96, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Tempers go at Nürnberg

Semir Telalović 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Tino Kusanović

At 18 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.

Match

Nürnberg find a way past Darmstadt 98

Darmstadt 98 made Nürnberg work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mohamed Alì Zoma

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief