The Holstein Kiel Chronicle
Market16 Jun 2036
Quentin Enold is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Holstein Kiel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market16 Jun 2036
Holstein Kiel say no — this time
The offer from VfB Stuttgart for Heinrich Baumann was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets16 Jun 2036
Jacopo Sassi is a medical away from Holstein Kiel
The deal with Dynamo Dresden is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad16 Jun 2036
Tempers go at Holstein Kiel
Ísak Jóhannesson 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.
Boardroom16 Jun 2036
Quentin Enold signs for Werder Bremen while still at Holstein Kiel
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Quentin Enold has agreed terms with Werder Bremen for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets16 Jun 2036
Door shut on Peter Jäger
Holstein Kiel asked and Karlsruher SC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad16 Jun 2036
Lars Koch arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lars Koch has, at Holstein Kiel, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad16 Jun 2036
A row about effort at Holstein Kiel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thibo Nègre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets16 Jun 2036
Holstein Kiel try to borrow Yakiv Kinareikin
RB Leipzig have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets Holstein Kiel ask about Patrik Berg
- Squad Uwe Meier signs a new deal
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Kaius Hardén