The Werder Bremen Courier
Squad12 Nov 2029
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.
Match7 Nov 2029
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.
Market12 Nov 2029
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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
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.
Match10 Nov 2029
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.
Market12 Nov 2029
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 dugout12 Nov 2029
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.
Match10 Nov 2029
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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
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
- Squad Appearance number 100 for Gaspar Duarte
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Salim Musah’s exile
- The dugout Interim Coach answers for it