The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg bid $25.7M for Kaishu Sano
The offer went to Mainz 05 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and SC Freiburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim tell SC Freiburg: Wouter Burger 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg go back to the board over Kaishu Sano
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $31.8M — a club that wants Kaishu Sano enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Elias Baum
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. SC Freiburg have done the hard part with Eintracht Frankfurt, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yuito Suzuki signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yuito Suzuki commits to SC Freiburg for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Markus Werner steps up from the SC Freiburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Werner has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Klaus Wagner joins the SC Freiburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Klaus Wagner is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg promote René Richter from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. René Richter has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- The dugout Niklas Beste gets it from the manager
- The dugout Yuito Suzuki asks for a word with the manager
- Squad No place for Đorđe Jovanović in the new shape