The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Squad28 Aug 2028
Niklas Beste damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.
Market28 Aug 2028
Yannik Engelhardt 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 SC Freiburg can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Yuito Suzuki keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” SC Freiburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Lennart Karl, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93
A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Maximilian Eggestein pops up at the right end — 7.91
7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match26 Aug 2028
SC Freiburg make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now SC Freiburg have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at SC Freiburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lennart Karl 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.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at SC Freiburg
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Door shut on Alejandro Grimaldo
SC Freiburg asked and VfB Stuttgart said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Lennart Karl
- Market One of our own: Frank Jäger joins the SC Freiburg first team
- Market SC Freiburg promote Jan Stein from within