Derrick Köhn

Left Back - Union Berlin
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Derrick Köhn

3 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Roberto Alvarado

Union Berlin and Guadalajara have settled on $19.5M. 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 targets

Union Berlin bid $46.1M for Francisco Conceição

The offer went to Juventus 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.

Transfer targets

Atlético Madrid tell Union Berlin: Álex Baena 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.

Market

Union Berlin say no — this time

The offer from VfL Bochum for Tom Rothe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Union Berlin plan ahead with Kacper Trelowski from Raków Częstochowa

The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Kacper Trelowski comes from Raków Częstochowa for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.

Squad

A move Kacper Trelowski would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kacper Trelowski is living that version at Union Berlin, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Dmytro Bogdanov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmytro Bogdanov commits to Union Berlin for another 5 years.

The dugout

Derrick Köhn gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Emmanuel Latte Lath remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Union Berlin would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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