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Marked for Hans Groß

126 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match23 Dec 2028

The wait goes on for Union Berlin

9 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.

Match23 Dec 2028

Nowhere to hide for Union Berlin

0‑3 against Eintracht Frankfurt, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A falling-out at Union Berlin

Eric Smith and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Union Berlin

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Josip Juranović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Derrick Köhn 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.

Boardroom25 Dec 2028

Doors closed at Union Berlin

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Hans Groß signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hans Groß commits to Union Berlin for another 3 years.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A last season at home is what David Texeira is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by René Werner to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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108 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 Aug 2028

Only the photograph left for Marnon Busch

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marnon Busch will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Union Berlin the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Joane Gadou is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Josip Juranović pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

Too dear: Union Berlin walk away from Paulo Moreira

$600.0K was the most the club would pay and Eintracht Frankfurt were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A falling-out at Union Berlin

Tim Skarke and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A late step up for Leopold Querfeld

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

Stanley Nsoki has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Union Berlin 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.

Market21 Aug 2028

Still no ink between Union Berlin and Hans Groß

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Union Berlin, another week without a signature from Hans Groß.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

Paul Tschernuth knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Paul Tschernuth trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

49 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2027

Eric Smith 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Real improvement from Hans Groß at Union Berlin

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hans Groß is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market5 Jul 2027

András Schäfer wants more than Union Berlin are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Rani Khedira 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A late step up for András Schäfer

At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Palermo tell Union Berlin: Matteo Brunori 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.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

A loan move for Léo Bonatini is in the works

Union Berlin have made the call to OGC Nice. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

A loan move for Alessandro Gabrielloni is in the works

Union Berlin have made the call to Como. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

A loan move for Manex Lozano is in the works

Union Berlin have made the call to Athletic Bilbao. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

38 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Apr 2027

Full time on the season at Union Berlin

Position 12 on 38 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Matheo Raab: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Union Berlin have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Woo-Yeong Jeong was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Union Berlin

Emmanuel Latte Lath and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Nicolas Nkoulou will join Union Berlin for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nicolas Nkoulou has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Union Berlin have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Match17 Apr 2027

A bad afternoon for Union Berlin against Köln

0‑1 to Köln, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

András Schäfer 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.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

René Werner faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” René Werner after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Union Berlin keep their word to Leopold Querfeld

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief