The Union Berlin Chronicle
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Union Berlin
Tim Lemperle 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Union Berlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rani Khedira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 May 2027
One of our own: Marc Schmidt joins the Union Berlin first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marc Schmidt is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of András Schäfer
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 May 2027
Roger Manríque wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Union Berlin can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad10 May 2027
A wage question at Union Berlin
Tom Rothe has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
- The dugout Stanley Nsoki asks for a word with the manager
- Market Tom Rothe linked with a move away
- Market Carl Klaus leaves for nothing