The Werder Bremen Courier
Market7 Sep 2026
Marco Grüll asks to leave Werder Bremen
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 20 in, 4 out at Werder Bremen
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 20 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Werder Bremen
Victor Boniface and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A late step up for Karl Hein
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kenny Quetant is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Kenny Quetant has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marko Sabitzer moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Werder Bremen than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Mitchell Weiser faces his old club
Köln next, and one man in the Werder Bremen dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
Werder Bremen bring in Ameen Al-Dakhil on loan
A season-long audition: VfB Stuttgart still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Werder Bremen's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Market7 Sep 2026
The market said no: Justin Njinmah stays put
Werder Bremen opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Justin Njinmah stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
In brief
- Market Leonardo Bittencourt leaves for nothing
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Werder Bremen
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Amos Pieper