Robert Scholz

Striker - Borussia Mönchengladbach
29 Dec 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Robert Scholz

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The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

5 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Borussia Mönchengladbach

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

Boardroom

Borussia Mönchengladbach put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Yll Gashi due for a Borussia Mönchengladbach medical

Everything agreed with Bayern Munich, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Kevin Stöger asks to leave Borussia Mönchengladbach

“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

Moritz Nicolas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Moritz Nicolas and Borussia Mönchengladbach agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Franck Honorat 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Jorge Aguirre will not be coming to Borussia Mönchengladbach

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Famalicao is saying, and nobody at Borussia Mönchengladbach is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

The step up is real for Robert Scholz

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Keke Topp 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.

In brief

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The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

1 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Borussia Mönchengladbach

Beaten 1‑5 by Bayern Munich, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Leopold Zingerle 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Daniel Peretz

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Loum Tchaouna 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words exchanged at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Franck Honorat 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.

Match

No end in sight to Borussia Mönchengladbach's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Borussia Mönchengladbach has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

6 goals as Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yannick Gerhardt

“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

A row about effort at Borussia Mönchengladbach

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

In brief

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24 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Borussia Mönchengladbach board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Moritz Nicolas

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Loum Tchaouna

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Borussia Mönchengladbach bow out of the cup

Bayer Leverkusen go through and Borussia Mönchengladbach go home, 1‑5 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Bayer Leverkusen follows Borussia Mönchengladbach home

1-5. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Franck Honorat 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Keke Topp 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

Robert Scholz arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Robert Scholz has, at Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

In brief