Michael Lang

Striker - SC Freiburg U18
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Michael Lang

58 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

SC Freiburg turn down Borussia Mönchengladbach for Noah Atubolu

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Robin Hack 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 SC Freiburg can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 12 signed and 16 gone

That is the business done at SC Freiburg until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Noahkai Banks 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 SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

RB Leipzig tell SC Freiburg: Samu Aghehowa is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lucas Höler

“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

Michael Lang signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Lang commits to SC Freiburg for another 4 years.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at SC Freiburg

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

A step back for Lukas Kübler at SC Freiburg

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Vincenzo Grifo, 34, rolls back the years — 7.95

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

Baylee Dipepa will not be coming to SC Freiburg

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Shrewsbury Town is saying, and nobody at SC Freiburg is enjoying the guessing.

Market

SC Freiburg say no — this time

The offer from Corvinul Hunedoara for Michael Lang was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Home is on Florent Muslija's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; SC Freiburg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at SC Freiburg

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Tempers go at SC Freiburg

Noahkai Banks 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

Eintracht Frankfurt tell SC Freiburg: Hugo Larsson is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Keisuke Goto

“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.

Market

One of our own: Marc Berger joins the SC Freiburg first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marc Berger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief