Michael Kraus

Striker - SV Elversberg U18
9 Nov 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Michael Kraus

161 Edition

The SV Elversberg Gazette

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Adrian Doci breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Jason Ceka says SV Elversberg went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The wait goes on for SV Elversberg

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Lukas Petkov 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 SV Elversberg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at SV Elversberg

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets

SV Elversberg rebuffed over Michaël Cuisance

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hertha BSC have kept their man, and SV Elversberg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Andreas Dietrich joins the SV Elversberg first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Dietrich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Michael Kraus steps up from the SV Elversberg academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Kraus 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.

Market

One of our own: Richard Schubert joins the SV Elversberg first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Schubert is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief