The Darmstadt 98 Chronicle
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Philipp Braun
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Darmstadt 98 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Fabian Holland out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Darmstadt 98 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 2027
Kai Klefisch 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 Darmstadt 98 can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
Darmstadt 98 say no — this time
The offer from St. Pauli for Matej Maglica 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Darmstadt 98
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Hiroki Akiyama 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 Darmstadt 98 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Grayson Dettoni at Darmstadt 98
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Grayson Dettoni is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match2 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Darmstadt 98
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Sidi Sané in the eights
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Transfer targets Darmstadt 98 try to borrow Cyriel Dessers
- Transfer targets A loan move for Eren Elmalı is in the works
- The dugout No hiding place for Fynn Lakenmacher