The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Vincenzo Grifo, 34, rolls back the years — 7.95
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Baylee Dipepa will not be coming to SC Freiburg
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Shrewsbury Town is saying, and nobody at SC Freiburg is enjoying the guessing.
Market30 Aug 2027
SC Freiburg say no — this time
The offer from Corvinul Hunedoara for Michael Lang 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Home is on Florent Muslija'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; SC Freiburg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at SC Freiburg
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at SC Freiburg
Noahkai Banks 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.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Eintracht Frankfurt tell SC Freiburg: Hugo Larsson 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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Keisuke Goto
“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.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Marc Berger joins the SC Freiburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marc Berger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Matthias Ludwig joins the SC Freiburg first team
- Market Georg Möller steps up from the SC Freiburg academy
- Player ratings Niklas Beste beats them one at a time