The Union Berlin Chronicle
The dugout25 Sep 2028
Livan Burcu says Union Berlin 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.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
Jaden Philogene was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Union Berlin count the cost of losing Thomas Schröder
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Union Berlin
Andrej Ilić 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at Union Berlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcel Sabitzer 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Union Berlin lose Benjamin Walter
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
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The dugout25 Sep 2028
When it matters, Andrej Ilić plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
A promise honoured for Jordan Amavi
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Union Berlin told Jordan Amavi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Market The Andrej Ilić talk will not go away
- Match Union Berlin and VfL Wolfsburg cancel each other out
- Looking ahead Oliver Burke faces his old club