The Union Berlin Chronicle
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $34.7M for Kevin Rios
Union Berlin have gone to La Equidad 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Antonín Kinský
Union Berlin asked and Tottenham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Christopher Trimmel has been here 12 seasons
521 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Frederik Rønnow wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Union Berlin hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Diogo Leite signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diogo Leite commits to Union Berlin for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Union Berlin
Derrick Köhn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Union Berlin has picked up the phone to Rani Khedira
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Union Berlin are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Woo-Yeong Jeong knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Union Berlin, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Carl Klaus told to find a new club
- Market The Frederik Rønnow question follows Union Berlin around
- The terraces The stands have heard the Frederik Rønnow talk too