The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Squad21 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Krämer
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. SC Freiburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at SC Freiburg
Vincenzo Grifo 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A late step up for Igor Matanović
At 24 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Real improvement from David Schopper at SC Freiburg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Schopper is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market21 Jun 2027
SC Freiburg may not be able to give Derry Scherhant what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Derry Scherhant wants continental football; whether SC Freiburg can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market21 Jun 2027
The Mio Backhaus question follows SC Freiburg around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mio Backhaus’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market SC Freiburg borrow Rav van den Berg
- Market SC Freiburg put Maximilian Philipp up for sale
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Rav van den Berg
- Loan watch Eren Dinkçi's loan at Werder Bremen nearly up