The FC Augsburg Herald
Squad18 Oct 2027
The knee: Karim Konaté out for 91 days
91 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Augsburg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Rodrigo Ribeiro out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Augsburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to FC Augsburg's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Augsburg has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Oct 2027
FC Augsburg cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Tempers go at FC Augsburg
Youri Baas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Finn Dahmen 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
FC Augsburg promote Uwe Hoffmann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Uwe Hoffmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market18 Oct 2027
Helmut Hofmann steps up from the FC Augsburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Helmut Hofmann 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
One of our own: Felix Engel joins the FC Augsburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felix Engel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Player ratings Alexis Claude-Maurice was unplayable
- Loan watch Marcel Łubik has seen enough of Vitoria Guimaraes
- Market Michael Gregoritsch told to find a new club