Andreas Meyer

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Retired
6 Oct 2047
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1069 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

21 Jan 2047
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Heidenheim spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gregor Albrecht

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

Squad

Jamie Schuldes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Heidenheim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Aimar Ruiz, 37, rolls back the years — 7.85

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

No end in sight to Heidenheim's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Heidenheim has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nikola Pasalic

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
1068 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

14 Jan 2047
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gregor Albrecht

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nikola Pasalic

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Heidenheim

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. VfL Wolfsburg kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Heidenheim will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Match

4 matches without a win for Heidenheim

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Heidenheim are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tiago Santos 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.

Match

Heidenheim and VfL Wolfsburg take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Home is on Jakub Masopust's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Heidenheim are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Player ratings

Florian Richter runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Andreas Meyer brings the grey hairs Heidenheim lacked

At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief

1038 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

18 Jun 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Jäger

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

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Borussia Mönchengladbach is running low.

Squad

Karl Kuhn breaks a bone — 71 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tyler Meiser 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Donny Van de Beek 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.

Market

Borussia Mönchengladbach pick up Leon Scholz for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Leon Scholz arrives at Borussia Mönchengladbach with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief