The Werder Bremen Courier
Boardroom25 May 2043
Dominik Sztojka signs for Union Berlin while still at Werder Bremen
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dominik Sztojka has agreed terms with Union Berlin for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad25 May 2043
Eric da Silva Moreira falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad25 May 2043
Klaus Kühn gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Klaus Kühn has just signed for Werder Bremen, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad25 May 2043
Franz Bleicher signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franz Bleicher commits to Werder Bremen for another 1 years.
Squad25 May 2043
Mateo Natale has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Werder Bremen will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market25 May 2043
Werder Bremen sign Klaus Kühn, one for the future
Klaus Kühn is 20, and Werder Bremen have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Werder Bremen pick up Ioannis Giakoumakis for nothing
- Market Philipp Wolf leaves for nothing
- Market Daniel Roth leaves for nothing