Gregor Simon

Defensive Midfielder - Borussia Mönchengladbach
16 Dec 2040
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689 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

10 Oct 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Oct 2039

The wait goes on for Borussia Mönchengladbach

19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad10 Oct 2039

A one-man rearguard from Jan Olschowsky

There were 6 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.

Player ratings10 Oct 2039

Up for the corner, and Jens Castrop delivers — 7.67

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jens Castrop scored, was marked 7.67, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad10 Oct 2039

Tempers go at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Giovanni Reyna 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.

Market10 Oct 2039

Lukas Jäger has one foot out of the door

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

Match8 Oct 2039

Jens Castrop’s goal not enough for Borussia Mönchengladbach

Jens Castrop scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Eintracht Frankfurt, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad10 Oct 2039

Words at Borussia Mönchengladbach training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Veit Stange 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.

Squad10 Oct 2039

Jan Olschowsky 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.

Player ratings10 Oct 2039

Nobody could get near Armin Sivić

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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687 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

26 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 Sep 2039

No end in sight to Borussia Mönchengladbach's wait for a win

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

Squad26 Sep 2039

A knee injury of the worst kind for Philipp Jung

15 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.

Squad26 Sep 2039

Gregor Simon says Borussia Mönchengladbach went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings26 Sep 2039

Giovanni Reyna, 36, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad26 Sep 2039

Tempers go at Borussia Mönchengladbach

Giovanni Reyna 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.

Market26 Sep 2039

Only the photograph left for Balagie Darboe

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Balagie Darboe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Borussia Mönchengladbach the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match24 Sep 2039

Hugo Bolin’s goal not enough for Borussia Mönchengladbach

Hugo Bolin scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to SC Freiburg, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad26 Sep 2039

Words at Borussia Mönchengladbach training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Veit Stange 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.

Match24 Sep 2039

Hugo Bolin answers SC Freiburg immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Hugo Bolin had Borussia Mönchengladbach level again within 2 minutes, and SC Freiburg never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

686 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

19 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match17 Sep 2039

No end in sight to Borussia Mönchengladbach's wait for a win

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

Squad19 Sep 2039

Jan Olschowsky damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Boardroom19 Sep 2039

Borussia Mönchengladbach hand the job to the manager

“I have supported clubs like this one. I know what a bad Saturday feels like here.” The new man starts with nothing behind him and everything in front of him.

Squad19 Sep 2039

Giovanni Reyna 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.

Market19 Sep 2039

Only the photograph left for Tim Zimmermann

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

Squad19 Sep 2039

Veit Stange 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.

Match17 Sep 2039

A bad afternoon for Borussia Mönchengladbach against Hamburger SV

1‑2 to Hamburger SV, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad19 Sep 2039

Gregor Simon signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gregor Simon commits to Borussia Mönchengladbach for another 4 years.

Player ratings19 Sep 2039

Hugo Bolin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

669 Edition

The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post

23 May 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 May 2039

Jannes Wieckhoff: 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.” Borussia Mönchengladbach have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad23 May 2039

Stanislav Petruța gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Stanislav Petruța has just signed for Borussia Mönchengladbach, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad23 May 2039

Naba Mensah 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.

Squad23 May 2039

Brando Moruzzi 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.

Market23 May 2039

Borussia Mönchengladbach bring in an old head

Stanislav Petruța is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market23 May 2039

Still no ink between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Gregor Simon

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Borussia Mönchengladbach, another week without a signature from Gregor Simon.

In brief