The Werder Bremen Courier
Match28 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Werder Bremen
13 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
A hiding for Werder Bremen
Beaten 1‑4 by SC Freiburg, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Romano Schmid
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ignacio Ramírez wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Werder Bremen know it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Karl Hein 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 Werder Bremen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Konta at Werder Bremen
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Konta is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Werder Bremen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitchell Weiser 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Werder Bremen
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market30 Aug 2027
Christoph Fuchs steps up from the Werder Bremen academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christoph Fuchs 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Thomas Kaiser joins the Werder Bremen first team
- Market Andreas Kaiser steps up from the Werder Bremen academy
- Market Werder Bremen promote Friedrich Brandt from within