The Köln Sentinel
Market31 Jul 2034
Pasquale Mazzocchi asks to leave Köln
“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.
Boardroom31 Jul 2034
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Köln
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad31 Jul 2034
Tempers go at Köln
Afonso Moreira 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.
Market31 Jul 2034
Hamburger SV watching Marlon Mustapha
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Köln have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Jul 2034
Jon Pacheco 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.
Squad31 Jul 2034
Morris Duggan has improved at 33, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad 7 new faces, and Köln are still learning each other
- Market Köln sign Niklas Horn, one for the future
- Market No place for Peter Müller in the plan