Helmut Meyer

Striker - Fortuna Düsseldorf U20
19 Apr 2036
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485 Edition

The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Nov 2035

Helmut Meyer damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.

Match10 Nov 2035

Chastening afternoon for Fortuna Düsseldorf

A 0‑3 beating by Eintracht Frankfurt was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market12 Nov 2035

Jaydon Banel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fortuna Düsseldorf they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market12 Nov 2035

Sacha Lung puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fortuna Düsseldorf, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Tempers go at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Leon Avdullahu 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.

Match10 Nov 2035

No end in sight to Fortuna Düsseldorf's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Düsseldorf has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom12 Nov 2035

Fortuna Düsseldorf to lose Ilan Assongo for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ilan Assongo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Match10 Nov 2035

Fortuna Düsseldorf cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Samuel Copete arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Samuel Copete has, at Fortuna Düsseldorf, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

In brief

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484 Edition

The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

5 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad5 Nov 2035

Helmut Meyer damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 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.

Match31 Oct 2035

The small margins put Fortuna Düsseldorf out

Out, 0‑2 to SC Freiburg, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The terraces5 Nov 2035

Supporters organise against the Fortuna Düsseldorf board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Andreas Jungdal keeps Fortuna Düsseldorf in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market5 Nov 2035

Sacha Lung is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fortuna Düsseldorf is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market5 Nov 2035

Fortuna Düsseldorf may not be able to give Jaydon Banel what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jaydon Banel wants continental football; whether Fortuna Düsseldorf can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Words at Fortuna Düsseldorf training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaydon Banel 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.

Match3 Nov 2035

3 matches without a goal for Fortuna Düsseldorf

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Stefano Marino 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 Fortuna Düsseldorf this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

439 Edition

The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

25 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match25 Dec 2034

Fortuna Düsseldorf are top

38 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Squad25 Dec 2034

A fracture rules Helmut Meyer out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fortuna Düsseldorf will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market25 Dec 2034

Only the photograph left for Michael Lainer

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michael Lainer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fortuna Düsseldorf the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout25 Dec 2034

Matthieu Epolo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad25 Dec 2034

A row about effort at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jason Knight was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match23 Dec 2034

Fortuna Düsseldorf find a way past Preußen Münster

Preußen Münster made Fortuna Düsseldorf work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings25 Dec 2034

The game went through Hugo Bolin — 7.21

Marked 7.21 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad25 Dec 2034

Words exchanged at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Lawrence Ennali 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.

Player ratings25 Dec 2034

The afternoon belonged to Dino Kojić

A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

  • Squad Fortuna Düsseldorf are still strangers to each other
  • The dugout the manager has his say
  • The dugout Luka Kolar knocks on the manager's door
438 Edition

The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

18 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad18 Dec 2034

Helmut Meyer breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market18 Dec 2034

Jerónimo Moreno hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Düsseldorf can pretend not to have heard.

Match16 Dec 2034

Fortuna Düsseldorf make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market18 Dec 2034

No place for Matthew Young in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Matthew Young has his answer from Fortuna Düsseldorf; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad18 Dec 2034

200 appearances for Iker Varela

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad18 Dec 2034

Fortuna Düsseldorf count the cost of losing Stephan Kuhn

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad18 Dec 2034

A row about effort at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Srđan Kuzmić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings18 Dec 2034

Josh Stephenson takes the honours

Marked 7.51 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fortuna Düsseldorf had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout18 Dec 2034

Luka Kolar knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fortuna Düsseldorf, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief