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30 Edition

22 Feb 2027

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Feb 2027

The knee: Philipp Förster out for 69 days

69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Eintracht Braunschweig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Jovan Mijatović: 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.” Eintracht Braunschweig have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match20 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Eintracht Braunschweig

4 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.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Words at Eintracht Braunschweig training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphaël Guerreiro 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.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Jovan Mijatović 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 Eintracht Braunschweig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Aaron Opoku was the difference for Eintracht Braunschweig

Marked 7.89. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match20 Feb 2027

Eintracht Braunschweig share the spoils with Hertha BSC

A 1‑1 draw with Hertha BSC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Karl Werner: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Market22 Feb 2027

Lino Tempelmann told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lino Tempelmann has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Eintracht Braunschweig.

In brief

Squad Silas finally opens his account
The dugout The manager makes an example of Florian Flick
Looking ahead Robin Heußer faces his old club

28 Edition

8 Feb 2027

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Feb 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Philipp Förster

84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Eintracht Braunschweig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market8 Feb 2027

Hansel Zapata puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Eintracht Braunschweig, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Robin Heußer says Eintracht Braunschweig 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Eintracht Braunschweig lose Lukas Frenkert

57 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Eintracht Braunschweig training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphaël Guerreiro 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.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

another club tell Eintracht Braunschweig: Onurcan Piri is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Silas

“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.

Match6 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Eintracht Braunschweig against SV Elversberg

0‑2 to SV Elversberg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Tidiam Gomis beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

Squad Robin Heußer signs a new deal
The dugout The view from the dugout
The dugout A promise honoured at Eintracht Braunschweig

20 Edition

14 Dec 2026

From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Dec 2026

8 saves: Robin Zentner was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match12 Dec 2026

9 unbeaten for Mainz 05

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Mainz 05 did not have in the autumn.

Market14 Dec 2026

Eric Martel raises the bar for Mainz 05

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Mainz 05 heard it as anything else.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Mainz 05

Benedict Hollerbach 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.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Đorđe Jovanović

“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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Lee Jae-Sung has had enough of the noise

The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.

Match12 Dec 2026

Mainz 05 share the spoils with Bayern Munich

A 1‑1 draw with Bayern Munich leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Mainz 05 pick somebody else ahead of Adam Taggart

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Matthias Wagner was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Mainz 05 dressing room was either.

In brief

Market The Nadiem Amiri talk will not go away
The dugout Silas has become a man the manager trusts
Player ratings Nobody could get near Paul Nebel

10 Edition

5 Oct 2026

From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Kaishu Sano pops up at the right end — 7.76

7.76, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Mainz 05

4 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Alexis Vega 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 Mainz 05 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Nadiem Amiri 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Eintracht Frankfurt take the points off Mainz 05

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A quiet fortnight at Mainz 05

With 8 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

Emi Ochoa has seen enough of Blau-Weiß Linz

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Mainz 05, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Paul Nebel was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Sota Kawasaki wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mainz 05 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

The dugout The view from the dugout
The dugout The manager makes an example of Silas
The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Adam Taggart