Paul Werner

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The Winterthur Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nesta Elphege

50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Winterthur lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market5 Feb 2029

Nikolas Muci moves on

Zurich pay $7.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Alexandre Jankewitz: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Winterthur have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Feb 2029

Ledjan Sahitaj asks to leave Winterthur

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at Winterthur until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Hadj Mahmoud 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 Winterthur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Paul Werner gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Paul Werner has just signed for Winterthur, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Words at Winterthur training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Roca 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.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

Winterthur rebuffed over Marius Noubissi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Saint-Etienne have kept their man, and Winterthur go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

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The Bayer Leverkusen Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom1 May 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Bayer Leverkusen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bayer Leverkusen is running low.

Match29 Apr 2028

The wait goes on for Bayer Leverkusen

7 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.

The dugout1 May 2028

Paul Werner says Bayer Leverkusen 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.

Market1 May 2028

Antonio Nusa wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bayer Leverkusen hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad1 May 2028

Words exchanged at Bayer Leverkusen

Antonio Nusa 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.

Match29 Apr 2028

Victor Boniface’s goal not enough for Bayer Leverkusen

Victor Boniface scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Eintracht Frankfurt, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market1 May 2028

Talks stall between Bayer Leverkusen and Mark Flekken

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout1 May 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Diant Ramaj's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad1 May 2028

Diant Ramaj gifts one

A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.

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The Bayer Leverkusen Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Bayer Leverkusen

Loïc Badé 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.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Julen Agirrezabala gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Bayer Leverkusen keep their word to Julen Agirrezabala

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Facundo Medina gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Facundo Medina is on it.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Kasper Dolberg named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Kasper Dolberg has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

Market11 Oct 2027

The Loïc Badé question follows Bayer Leverkusen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Loïc Badé’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Robert Andrich asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market11 Oct 2027

Talks stall between Bayer Leverkusen and Artem Stepanov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market11 Oct 2027

Manu Koné placed on the list

Bayer Leverkusen have made Manu Koné available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

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