Marco Thomas

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Marked for Marco Thomas

346 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

14 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Mar 2033

Fabian Rieder has one foot out of the door

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

Squad14 Mar 2033

Noah Atubolu 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 Köln this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Mar 2033

Loïc Badé 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.

Match12 Mar 2033

Kaiserslautern take the points off Köln

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Loan watch14 Mar 2033

Dennis Seimen’s loan is measured in nothing happening

13 clean sheets from 25 appearances at Kaiserslautern. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

The dugout14 Mar 2033

The manager has not finished forgetting Adam Daghim's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad14 Mar 2033

Adam Daghim wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Squad14 Mar 2033

Marco Thomas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Thomas and Köln agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout14 Mar 2033

No hiding place for Nicolas Kühn

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolas Kühn, and the manager let it.

In brief

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296 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

29 Mar 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market29 Mar 2032

Filippo Missori is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Köln is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market29 Mar 2032

Köln may not be able to give Jacobo Ramón what he wants

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

Squad29 Mar 2032

Loïc Badé 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 Köln this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout29 Mar 2032

The manager makes an example of Jacobo Ramón

“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.

Squad29 Mar 2032

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Marco Thomas

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Köln will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Boardroom29 Mar 2032

99% of the income goes out in wages at Köln

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Loan watch29 Mar 2032

10 clean sheets on loan for Jonas Krumrey

26 appearances at Nürnberg and the goals have stopped going in. Köln lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

The dugout29 Mar 2032

When it matters, Mikkel Kaufmann plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2032

Köln take on the side everybody is chasing

Bayer Leverkusen arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief