The Eintracht Braunschweig Gazette
Squad4 Oct 2027
Aaron Opoku in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eintracht Braunschweig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Oct 2027
Sidi Sané’s goal not enough for Eintracht Braunschweig
Sidi Sané scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to SC Paderborn, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Eintracht Braunschweig
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Perr Schuurs was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Ron-Thorben Hoffmann
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Markus Baumann
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Eintracht Braunschweig will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Fabio Kaufmann signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabio Kaufmann commits to Eintracht Braunschweig for another 1 years.
The dugout4 Oct 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 2‑3 Frank Ludwig left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Lukas Frenkert has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Eintracht Braunschweig will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Eintracht Braunschweig pick somebody else ahead of Florian Flick
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Market The Ron-Thorben Hoffmann question follows Eintracht Braunschweig around
- Player ratings Half an hour was enough for Sidi Sané
- Market Eintracht Braunschweig put Silas Gnaka up for sale