Stephan Roth

Right Midfielder - Hertha BSC U18
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Stephan Roth

84 Edition

The Hertha BSC Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Hertha BSC leave it late against Fortuna Düsseldorf

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Fortuna Düsseldorf spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Roth out for 22 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hertha BSC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Michaël Cuisance raises the bar for Hertha BSC

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hertha BSC heard it as anything else.

Market

Hertha BSC may not be able to give Jonas Urbig what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jonas Urbig wants continental football; whether Hertha BSC can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Fisnik Asllani 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.

Squad

Marcos López 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 Hertha BSC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Hertha BSC get the job done against Fortuna Düsseldorf

A 1‑0 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Maximilian Philipp out for 40 days

The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Maximilian Philipp, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Ernest Poku was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

  • The dugout Paul Seguin left out for the big one
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Michaël Cuisance knocks on the manager’s door
Back issues
83 Edition

The Hertha BSC Courier

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Stephan Roth out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hertha BSC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Julian Eitschberger asks to leave Hertha BSC

“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.

The dugout

Noël Aséko frozen out at Hertha BSC

This is not rotation. Noël Aséko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Hertha BSC is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Fisnik Asllani 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.

Player ratings

Ernest Poku was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Boardroom

Hertha BSC beat the market to Luca Sirch from Fortuna Düsseldorf

Fortuna Düsseldorf will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Luca Sirch has pre-agreed a move to Hertha BSC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Tempers go at Hertha BSC

Marius Gersbeck 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.

Match

Fisnik Asllani’s goal not enough for Hertha BSC

Fisnik Asllani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hamburger SV, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Michaël Cuisance

“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.

In brief