The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle
Squad11 Apr 2039
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leo Sauer
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Borussia Dortmund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Apr 2039
João Pedro keeps Borussia Dortmund in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market11 Apr 2039
Only the photograph left for Iván Blanco
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Iván Blanco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Borussia Dortmund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Apr 2039
Felix Nmecha 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.
Squad11 Apr 2039
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Colombo
“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.
Player ratings11 Apr 2039
One of those days for Samuele Inácio
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings11 Apr 2039
Nobody could get near Trevan Sanusi
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match9 Apr 2039
Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market11 Apr 2039
The Felix Nmecha question follows Borussia Dortmund around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Felix Nmecha’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Lorenzo Colombo
- Market Andreas Simon is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Badredine Bouanani ran the game