Daniel Meier

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85 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad13 Mar 2028

The knee: Daniel Meier out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Bochum lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match11 Mar 2028

Still nobody has beaten VfL Bochum

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Kento Shiogai 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 VfL Bochum this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Words at VfL Bochum training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yousef Salech 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.

The dugout13 Mar 2028

Cezary Miszta gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Looking ahead13 Mar 2028

Top-of-the-table clash for VfL Bochum

Greuther Fürth next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.

Player ratings13 Mar 2028

Kento Shiogai stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the VfL Bochum support went home talking about one name.

Squad13 Mar 2028

VfL Bochum are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Match11 Mar 2028

VfL Bochum share the spoils with SC Paderborn

A 2‑2 draw with SC Paderborn leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Mar 2028

The knee: Daniel Meier out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Bochum lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match6 Mar 2028

VfL Bochum are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 45 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match4 Mar 2028

9 unbeaten for VfL Bochum

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation VfL Bochum did not have in the autumn.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Real improvement from Cajetan Lenz at VfL Bochum

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cajetan Lenz is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words at VfL Bochum training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yousef Salech 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

The run is over for VfL Bochum

6 matches without defeat, and then Arminia Bielefeld. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad6 Mar 2028

A month that belonged to Malik Pimpong

The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at VfL Bochum who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

The team sheet said everything about Joël Schmied

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Joël Schmied.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Philipp Hofmann gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

83 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad28 Feb 2028

The knee: Daniel Meier out for 31 days

31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Bochum lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market28 Feb 2028

Raphael Obermair has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VfL Bochum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match26 Feb 2028

VfL Bochum cannot stop winning

6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The dugout28 Feb 2028

Philipp Hofmann keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” VfL Bochum may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market28 Feb 2028

Kaito Yasui raises the bar for VfL Bochum

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at VfL Bochum heard it as anything else.

Boardroom28 Feb 2028

Raphael Obermair signs for Eintracht Frankfurt while still at VfL Bochum

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Raphael Obermair has agreed terms with Eintracht Frankfurt for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Kaito Yasui wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at VfL Bochum can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The terraces28 Feb 2028

VfL Bochum supporters have found a favourite in Kento Shiogai

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Kento Shiogai has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match26 Feb 2028

VfL Bochum are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

In brief

82 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad21 Feb 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Meier

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. VfL Bochum lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market21 Feb 2028

VfL Bochum turn down Kaiserslautern for Raphael Obermair

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings21 Feb 2028

Ismael Saibari scores twice — 8.15

Two goals and a mark of 8.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match19 Feb 2028

Nobody wants to play VfL Bochum right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Jonathan Akaegbobi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” VfL Bochum may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad21 Feb 2028

A row about effort at VfL Bochum

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yousef Salech was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match19 Feb 2028

Ismael Saibari the difference as VfL Bochum beat Hannover 96

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ismael Saibari. 2‑1 against Hannover 96, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

No hiding place for Yousef Salech

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yousef Salech, and the manager let it.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at VfL Bochum

Jannik Mause and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief