The Kaiserslautern Sentinel
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Kaiserslautern rebuffed over Viktor Bjarki Daðason
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Borussia Dortmund have kept their man, and Kaiserslautern go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market25 Aug 2031
Only the photograph left for Buba Sangaré
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Buba Sangaré will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kaiserslautern the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market25 Aug 2031
Ben Jungfleisch 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 The request is on a desk at Kaiserslautern, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match23 Aug 2031
Köln end the Kaiserslautern run at 10
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 10 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Boardroom25 Aug 2031
Kaiserslautern tie Jan Schäfer down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
The paperwork begins on Jakub Surovčík
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kaiserslautern have done the hard part with Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Kodai Sano 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 Kaiserslautern this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout25 Aug 2031
Christian Gomis frozen out at Kaiserslautern
This is not rotation. Christian Gomis has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kaiserslautern is pretending otherwise.
Boardroom25 Aug 2031
Graduation day at Kaiserslautern
11 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Kaiserslautern against Köln
- Market Denis Husser attracts admirers
- Market One of our own: Lars Weber joins the Kaiserslautern first team