Marcus Müller

Striker - Holstein Kiel
12 Oct 2027
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Marked for Marcus Müller

61 Edition

The Holstein Kiel Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Adrián Kaprálik beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match22 Sep 2027

Cup progress for Holstein Kiel

A 3‑1 win over Preußen Münster, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Marcus Müller scores twice — 9.13

Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad27 Sep 2027

A fracture rules Richard Wolff out for 46 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Holstein Kiel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Louis Köster keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Holstein Kiel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match25 Sep 2027

Nobody wants to play Holstein Kiel right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Holstein Kiel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Kaprálik is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces27 Sep 2027

One of their own: Niklas Niehoff

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match25 Sep 2027

Holstein Kiel find a way past SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg made Holstein Kiel work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Louis Köster at his very best
  • Player ratings Niklas Niehoff stands above it all
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
54 Edition

The Holstein Kiel Chronicle

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Aug 2027

Ikem Ugoh damages knee ligaments — 60 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Josip Stanišić will not be coming to Holstein Kiel

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Bayern Munich is saying, and nobody at Holstein Kiel is enjoying the guessing.

Boardroom9 Aug 2027

Still nobody in the Holstein Kiel dugout

8 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Holstein Kiel

Andu Kelati and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Door shut on Benedikt Pichler

Holstein Kiel asked and Hamburger SV said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Holstein Kiel

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and John Tolkin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad9 Aug 2027

7 new faces, and Holstein Kiel 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 dugout9 Aug 2027

A clean slate for Timo Werner

A new manager did not pick last season’s side and does not care what it looked like. Timo Werner has taken that personally, in the best sense, and Holstein Kiel are seeing a version of him the last regime had stopped seeing.

Market9 Aug 2027

Talks stall between Holstein Kiel and Carl Johansson

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

15 Edition

The Holstein Kiel Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Andu Kelati was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Jonas Meffert 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 Holstein Kiel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match7 Nov 2026

Alexander Bernhardsson’s goal not enough for Holstein Kiel

Alexander Bernhardsson scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hannover 96, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Timon Weiner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timon Weiner commits to Holstein Kiel for another 3 years.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Aldin Jakupović falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Adrián Kaprálik

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad9 Nov 2026

John Tolkin wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Holstein Kiel can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

David Thomas answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Market9 Nov 2026

Marko Ivezić is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Holstein Kiel has been clear about where Marko Ivezić stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

11 Edition

The Holstein Kiel Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Luca Prasse is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jonas Meffert falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Marcus Müller

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Holstein Kiel will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Holstein Kiel

Andu Kelati and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

A reunion for Patrick Erras

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Nürnberg in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

A door opens for Patrick Erras

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief