Patrick Meier

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Werder Bremen U18
16 Apr 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick Meier

172 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Meier

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Werder Bremen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The cup run ends for Werder Bremen

1‑2 against Nürnberg, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Karl Hein asks to leave Werder Bremen

“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

A move Mateus Mide would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mateus Mide is living that version at Werder Bremen, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

The wait goes on for Werder Bremen

4 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.

Market

Werder Bremen may not be able to give Andu Kelati what he wants

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

The dugout

Karl Hein gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Werder Bremen come up short against Karlsruher SC

Karlsruher SC left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words exchanged at Werder Bremen

Gaspar Duarte 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.

In brief

Back issues
109 Edition

The Werder Bremen Courier

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jens Stage damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Raphael Obermair keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Werder Bremen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

The wait goes on for Werder Bremen

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

A falling-out at Werder Bremen

Wouter Burger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Werder Bremen

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.

Match

Kenny Quetant’s goal not enough for Werder Bremen

Kenny Quetant scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Fortuna Düsseldorf, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

One of our own: Frank Weber joins the Werder Bremen first team

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

Market

Werder Bremen promote Marc Friedrich from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marc Friedrich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Werder Bremen promote Jürgen Herrmann from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jürgen Herrmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief