Andrej Ilić

Striker - Union Berlin
20 Sep 2026
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Marked for Andrej Ilić

6 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market7 Sep 2026

Woo-Yeong Jeong hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Union Berlin can pretend not to have heard.

Market7 Sep 2026

St. Pauli come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Union Berlin did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market7 Sep 2026

The Bayern Munich deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Frederik Rønnow reports back to Union Berlin with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Woo-Yeong Jeong

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Union Berlin close the window on a squad of their own making

15 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Match5 Sep 2026

Borussia Dortmund take the points off Union Berlin

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Christoph Schmidt: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Kastriot Imeri slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Kastriot Imeri is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Market7 Sep 2026

The shop window has Andrej Ilić in it

Union Berlin have let the market know Andrej Ilić can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market31 Aug 2026

Andrej Ilić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Union Berlin can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Union Berlin rebuffed over Fabian Rieder

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Augsburg have kept their man, and Union Berlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market31 Aug 2026

Union Berlin sell Aljoscha Kemlein for $12.0M

Aljoscha Kemlein has left for Bayer Leverkusen in a $12.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Union Berlin baulk at the price for Fin Stevens

St. Pauli wanted more than $7.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market31 Aug 2026

Union Berlin sign Sam Tickle with one eye on the future

Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Sam Tickle has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Tim Skarke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market31 Aug 2026

The Frederik Rønnow conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bayern Munich will make the call about Frederik Rønnow this week. Union Berlin have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match29 Aug 2026

Union Berlin come up short against Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht Frankfurt left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Union Berlin

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

2 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Fee done, terms next for Gorka Guruzeta

Union Berlin and Athletic Bilbao have settled on $23.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Too dear: Union Berlin walk away from Noah Okafor

$38.5M was the most the club would pay and Leeds United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $24.8M for Jamie Leweling

Union Berlin have gone to VfB Stuttgart with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Woo-Yeong Jeong stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Woo-Yeong Jeong and Union Berlin agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Andrej Ilić 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Woo-Yeong Jeong

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Woo-Yeong Jeong, and the manager let it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Marco Richter steps up from the Union Berlin academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marco Richter 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

Hans Mayer steps up from the Union Berlin academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hans Mayer 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

Union Berlin promote Lars Schulz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lars Schulz 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