The FC Augsburg Herald
Boardroom7 Jun 2038
Christoph Hahn has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at FC Augsburg can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom7 Jun 2038
Crisis meeting at FC Augsburg
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Tobías Bacar: 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.” FC Augsburg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Tempers go at FC Augsburg
Finn Dahmen 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.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Words at FC Augsburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gift Orban 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.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Home is on Tobías Bacar's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Augsburg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market7 Jun 2038
FC Augsburg buy the years ahead of Andreas Lang
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market7 Jun 2038
Mert Kömür linked with a move away
The name of Mert Kömür keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FC Augsburg say nothing, which says plenty.
Market7 Jun 2038
FC Augsburg and Andreas Lang are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Boardroom $11.1M taken back off the FC Augsburg table
- Market The shop window has Thijs van Ingen in it
- Boardroom The FC Augsburg dressing room answers