The Greuther Fürth Courier
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Branimir Hrgota
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Greuther Fürth lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Greuther Fürth
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Mojmír Chytil turns down Greuther Fürth
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Manfred Ugalde
Greuther Fürth asked and RB Leipzig said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Doni Arifi says Greuther Fürth 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.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The paperwork begins on Noël Aséko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Greuther Fürth have done the hard part with Eintracht Frankfurt, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Greuther Fürth
Luca Philipp 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Greuther Fürth
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Greuther Fürth training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Skelly Alvero 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.
In brief
- Market Stefan Werner steps up from the Greuther Fürth academy
- Market Sebastian Schwarz steps up from the Greuther Fürth academy
- Market Greuther Fürth promote Markus Roth from within