The Hannover 96 Chronicle
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Lars Gindorf keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hannover 96 may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Hannover 96
Kosuke Nakamura 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
6 unbeaten for Hannover 96
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Hannover 96 did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Richie Omorowa 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Hannover 96 lose Ralph Simon
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
Leon-Oumar Wechsel has seen enough of Nürnberg
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hannover 96, and 1 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Mikkel Kaufmann was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Brooklyn Ezeh 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 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Helmut Braun was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Hannover 96 dressing room was either.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for Mattia Compagnon
- Match Hannover 96 draw a blank against Heidenheim
- Market Frans Krätzig linked with a move away