The SV Elversberg Gazette
Market11 Sep 2028
Fabian Holland asks to leave SV Elversberg
“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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tempers go at SV Elversberg
Luca Schuler 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Bence Dárdai 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
SV Elversberg promote Philipp Koch from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Philipp Koch has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Sep 2028
Kevin Scholz steps up from the SV Elversberg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Scholz 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
SV Elversberg promote Tobias Fuchs from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tobias Fuchs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Home is on Victor Loturi's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; SV Elversberg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
When it matters, Nicolas Kristof plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead11 Sep 2028
The leaders are next for SV Elversberg
Bayer Leverkusen top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
In brief
- The dugout Frederik Schmahl knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Hakan Çalhanoğlu faces his old club
- The dugout A door opens for Mohammad Mahmoud