The Kaiserslautern Sentinel
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Supporters organise against the Kaiserslautern board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Kaiserslautern
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Andreas Stein out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kaiserslautern will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 2027
Shawn Blum hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kaiserslautern can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mërgim Berisha 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Kaiserslautern beat the market to Omar Sillah from Greuther Fürth
Greuther Fürth will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Omar Sillah has pre-agreed a move to Kaiserslautern, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Kaiserslautern
Mahir Emreli 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Benfica tell Kaiserslautern: Bruma 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Faride Alidou 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.
In brief
- Squad Costly mistake from Julian Krahl
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Mahir Emreli
- Transfer targets A loan move for Andrea Adorante is in the works