The Union Berlin Chronicle
Squad7 Aug 2028
Jannik Huth breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
Union Berlin bid $630.0K for Elias Baum
The offer went to Eintracht Frankfurt 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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Union Berlin go back to the board over Elias Baum
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $660.0K — a club that wants Elias Baum enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
No deal for Scott Banks at that price
Union Berlin offered $630.0K; St. Pauli said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market7 Aug 2028
Arthur Vermeeren raises the bar for Union Berlin
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Union Berlin heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Union Berlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Osterhage was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A muscle injury sidelines Karl Beck for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Union Berlin will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Union Berlin
Alejandro Cabrera 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.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
David Preu back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Union Berlin has worked with David Preu before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
In brief
- Market Union Berlin and Abdoulie Ceesay are talking past each other
- The dugout Robert Skov has been promised minutes
- The dugout Abdoulie Ceesay knocks on the manager's door