The Union Berlin Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Union Berlin rebuffed over Christoph Baumgartner
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RB Leipzig have kept their man, and Union Berlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aljoscha Kemlein says no to Holstein Kiel
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Aljoscha Kemlein had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $2.8M for Mathias Olesen
Union Berlin have gone to Greuther Fürth with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Union Berlin plan ahead with Kacper Trelowski from Raków Częstochowa
The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Kacper Trelowski comes from Raków Częstochowa for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Union Berlin go back to the board over Mathias Olesen
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.9M — a club that wants Mathias Olesen enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Woo-Yeong Jeong stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Woo-Yeong Jeong and Union Berlin agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kacper Trelowski arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kacper Trelowski has, at Union Berlin, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrej Ilić 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tim Schuster steps up from the Union Berlin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Schuster has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Ralf Friedrich steps up from the Union Berlin academy
- The dugout Woo-Yeong Jeong knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Emmanuel Latte Lath remains an outsider