The Werder Bremen Courier
Market10 Jul 2028
Terms done: Salim Musah is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lugano waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Werder Bremen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Jul 2028
Jonny Stuttle turns Javor-Matis down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Jul 2028
Godoy Cruz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Werder Bremen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Michael Herrmann is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Samuel Mbangula 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Werder Bremen
Mathias Rasmussen 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 dugout10 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Nathan De Cat
“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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Senne Lynen 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
Justin Njinmah linked with a move away
The name of Justin Njinmah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Werder Bremen say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Salim Musah a promise
- Squad Lessons booked for Ilian Mhand at Werder Bremen
- Boardroom The Werder Bremen academy earns its keep