Marcel Becker

Right Midfielder - Köln
19 Jan 2036
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Marked for Marcel Becker

473 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

20 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Aug 2035

Benjamín Ilama damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.

Market20 Aug 2035

Michel Bonnet hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Köln can pretend not to have heard.

Market20 Aug 2035

Michel Bonnet 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.

Squad20 Aug 2035

Real improvement from Marcel Becker at Köln

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcel Becker is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad20 Aug 2035

Words at Köln training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rav van den Berg 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.

Squad20 Aug 2035

Danilo Gomes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Köln know it.

In brief

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469 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Jul 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Homet

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

Market23 Jul 2035

Friedrich Kaiser hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Köln can pretend not to have heard.

Market23 Jul 2035

Köln turn down Mainz 05 for Michel Bonnet

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

In brief

463 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

11 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces11 Jun 2035

The mood at Köln has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad11 Jun 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Homet

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

Squad11 Jun 2035

Peter Otto breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Jun 2035

St. Pauli come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Köln did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market11 Jun 2035

Kostas Chrysopoulos hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Köln can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Marcel Becker gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcel Becker has just signed for Köln, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom11 Jun 2035

Still no name above the door at Köln

Day 41 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Tempers go at Köln

Afonso Moreira 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.

Market11 Jun 2035

Only the photograph left for Tim Kraus

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tim Kraus will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Köln the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief