The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Squad28 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matthias Ginter
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. SC Freiburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Aug 2028
54 days out for Patrick Osterhage after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SC Freiburg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Aug 2028
Christian Günter asks to leave SC Freiburg
“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 targets28 Aug 2028
Hamburger SV tell SC Freiburg: Terem Moffi is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market28 Aug 2028
SC Freiburg sell Janis Blaswich for $1.0M
Janis Blaswich has left for St. Pauli in a $1.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
4 academy players handed senior numbers at SC Freiburg
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at SC Freiburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Höler 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.
The terraces28 Aug 2028
SC Freiburg supporters have found a favourite in Conrad Harder
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Conrad Harder has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market28 Aug 2028
One of our own: Stefan Sauer joins the SC Freiburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Sauer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Tim Koch steps up from the SC Freiburg academy
- Boardroom SC Freiburg let a promise lapse
- Squad A falling-out at SC Freiburg