The Union Berlin Chronicle
Market30 Aug 2027
Union Berlin say no — this time
The offer from Köln for Rani Khedira was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market30 Aug 2027
As if he never left: Marvin Friedrich returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Marvin Friedrich is a Union Berlin player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Frederik Rønnow keeps Union Berlin 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Union Berlin
Stephan El Shaarawy 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Patrick Schreiber is a Union Berlin player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market30 Aug 2027
Benjamin Heinrich is a Union Berlin player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match28 Aug 2027
Union Berlin come up short against Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Ilyas Ansah
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilyas Ansah, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
One of those days for Leopold Querfeld
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Tim Skarke
- Squad Maximilian Mittelstädt knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings The one thing Ilyas Ansah could not do