Patrick Kaiser

Right Midfielder - SC Freiburg
17 Mar 2036
Monday
Process

Marked for Patrick Kaiser

490 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

17 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jürgen Krämer breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Eren Dinkçi yet — 8.34

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.34 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Eren Dinkçi 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.

Match

Nobody wants to play SC Freiburg right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Market

Simon Walde has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around SC Freiburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Derry Scherhant 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.

Squad

Philipp Lienhart 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

SC Freiburg see off VfL Wolfsburg

Three points for SC Freiburg, 2‑1 the final word against VfL Wolfsburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Sota Kitano at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SC Freiburg.

In brief

Back issues
487 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

26 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put SC Freiburg out

Out, 0‑1 to TSG Hoffenheim, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

SC Freiburg taken apart

0‑3 to Borussia Dortmund, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Jürgen Krämer breaks a bone — 62 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at SC Freiburg

Eren Dinkçi 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.

Squad

Words at SC Freiburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derry Scherhant is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Jonathan Mutombo out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Jonathan Mutombo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

SC Freiburg cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Boardroom

Inquest at SC Freiburg

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Rocky Herrera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief