The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: SC Freiburg walk away from Mile Svilar
$37.3M was the most the club would pay and AS Roma were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg bid $22.2M for Wouter Burger
The offer went to TSG Hoffenheim this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg bid $7.8M for Bence Dárdai
The offer went to VfL Wolfsburg this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Lennart Karl
SC Freiburg asked and Bayern Munich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg turn down Borussia Mönchengladbach for Cyriaque Irié
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yuito Suzuki signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yuito Suzuki commits to SC Freiburg for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart watching Jannik Huth
The interest is real enough to have reached print. SC Freiburg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Patrick Keller steps up from the SC Freiburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Keller has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Möller joins the SC Freiburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Möller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Derry Scherhant
- The dugout Yuito Suzuki asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Vincenzo Grifo has seen what the next man earns