Peter Pohl

Left Wingback - Arminia Bielefeld U18
14 Apr 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Peter Pohl

116 Edition

The Arminia Bielefeld Courier

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mika Schroers asks to leave Arminia Bielefeld

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arminia Bielefeld

Stefano Russo 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.

Squad

Hervé Koffi 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.

Squad

Arminia Bielefeld count the cost of losing Peter Pohl

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

No hiding place for Francesco Bellone

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francesco Bellone, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Arminia Bielefeld keep their word to Hervé Koffi

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.

Squad

Francesco Bellone has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Arminia Bielefeld will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

Tim Handwerker has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Arminia Bielefeld 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.

The dugout

Leon Schneider 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.

In brief

Back issues
112 Edition

The Arminia Bielefeld Courier

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Finn Becker damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

El Chadaille Bitshiabu keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Arminia Bielefeld may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Mika Schroers puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arminia Bielefeld, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Arminia Bielefeld's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Arminia Bielefeld has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arminia Bielefeld

Joel Grodowski 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Arminia Bielefeld

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hervé Koffi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Joel Grodowski

“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.

Squad

Arminia Bielefeld lose Peter Pohl

45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Stefan Hartmann: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief