The Heidenheim Chronicle
Squad19 Feb 2035
Adrian Beck damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 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.
Market19 Feb 2035
Taylan Aydın 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 Heidenheim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Feb 2035
Tempers go at Heidenheim
Patrick Mainka 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.
Squad19 Feb 2035
Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Schöppner 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.
Squad19 Feb 2035
Daniel Thomas out for 14 days
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Daniel Thomas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings19 Feb 2035
Youssoupha Niang was the difference for Heidenheim
Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match17 Feb 2035
Youssoupha Niang rescues a point for Heidenheim
It needed Youssoupha Niang to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Borussia Mönchengladbach, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market19 Feb 2035
Taylan Aydın linked with a move away
The name of Taylan Aydın keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Heidenheim say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings19 Feb 2035
Paul Hennrich runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Víctor García runs his contract down
- Boardroom Heidenheim keep producing them