Claudio Andreoli

Striker - Preußen Münster
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

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413 Edition

The Preußen Münster Chronicle

26 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Enzo Leopold breaks a bone — 120 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Wesley Okoduwa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Preußen Münster they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Rico Henry hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Preußen Münster can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Lamin Njie

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Preußen Münster have done the hard part with VfB Stuttgart, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Preußen Münster

Jano ter Horst 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.

Transfer targets

Preußen Münster rebuffed over Kojo Peprah Oppong

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. VfL Wolfsburg have kept their man, and Preußen Münster go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Preußen Münster may not be able to give Gustavo Garcia what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Gustavo Garcia wants continental football; whether Preußen Münster can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

The dugout

Wesley Okoduwa knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Preußen Münster, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Words at Preußen Münster training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrizio Caligara 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.

In brief

Back issues
408 Edition

The Preußen Münster Chronicle

22 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Preußen Münster boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Dante Cassanova has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Preußen Münster they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

The season belongs to Olívio Tomé

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Preußen Münster have had the benefit of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Preußen Münster

Jano ter Horst 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

Rico Henry is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Market

Preußen Münster and Wesley Okoduwa are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Preußen Münster

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lenny Lacroix

“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 dugout

Dante Cassanova knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Preußen Münster, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief