Gregor Simon

Defensive Midfielder - SC Paderborn U18
12 May 2029
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The SC Paderborn Gazette

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

SC Paderborn part company with Daniel Schumacher

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Market

Hertha BSC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and SC Paderborn did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Patrick Sauer steps up at SC Paderborn for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Match

The wait goes on for SC Paderborn

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at SC Paderborn

Tygo Land 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

The goals have deserted SC Paderborn

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at SC Paderborn can tell you which week it ends in.

Player ratings

Niels Nkounkou beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at SC Paderborn

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

A row about effort at SC Paderborn

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

In brief