The Werder Bremen Courier
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Anger at Werder Bremen spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match16 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Werder Bremen
Position 17 and 25 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Samuel Mbangula is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Jens Stage 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Niklas Stark 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 Werder Bremen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Too much change too quickly at Werder Bremen
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Loan watch Kenny Quetant counts the days
- Market Erdoğan Yeşilyurt brings the grey hairs Werder Bremen lacked
- Market The shop window has Erdoğan Yeşilyurt in it
- Market Peter Lehmann leaves for nothing