Patrick Stein

Right Midfielder - Borussia Mönchengladbach U18
13 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick Stein

7 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Patrick Stein out for 18 days

18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Borussia Mönchengladbach lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

No deal for Sander Tangvik at that price

Borussia Mönchengladbach offered $8.1M; Hamburger SV said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words exchanged at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Kevin Stöger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Tobias Sippel’s move to Hamburger SV falls through

The deal that would have taken Tobias Sippel to Hamburger SV has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Borussia Mönchengladbach with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Match

A bad afternoon for Borussia Mönchengladbach against VfB Stuttgart

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

Squad

Words at Borussia Mönchengladbach training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shuto Machino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Florian Neuhaus

“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.

The dugout

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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Uwe Vogt to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Franck Honorat

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Patrick Stein damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Borussia Mönchengladbach tear FC Augsburg apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against FC Augsburg, and it could have been more.

Transfer targets

An offer of $8.1M for Sander Tangvik

Borussia Mönchengladbach have gone to Hamburger SV 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 19 in, 0 out at Borussia Mönchengladbach

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Player ratings

Nicolas Kühn was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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.

Squad

Franck Honorat 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Tim Kleindienst

Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

One of those days for Franck Honorat

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Hugo Bolin 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.

In brief