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The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Jun 2027

Steffen Tigges is a Fortuna Düsseldorf player

The fee is $1.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. SC Paderborn drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Fortuna Düsseldorf bid $560.0K for Leo Weinkauf

The offer went to Hannover 96 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Fortuna Düsseldorf

Janik Haberer 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Fortuna Düsseldorf

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

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Door shut on Maxim Glushenkov

Fortuna Düsseldorf asked and Bayer Leverkusen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market14 Jun 2027

The Christian Rasmussen conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Hamburger SV will make the call about Christian Rasmussen this week. Fortuna Düsseldorf have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad14 Jun 2027

An aura around Hugo Bolin

Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Fortuna Düsseldorf. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.

Squad14 Jun 2027

William Bøving 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 Fortuna Düsseldorf would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market14 Jun 2027

Talks stall between Fortuna Düsseldorf and Kenneth Schmidt

“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.

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The Fortuna Düsseldorf Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Fortuna Düsseldorf

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

Squad15 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Fortuna Düsseldorf

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

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Hugo Bolin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Valgeir Lunddal wants to go home

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

Squad15 Mar 2027

Too much change too quickly at Fortuna Düsseldorf

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.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

The team sheet said everything about Can Bozdogan

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Can Bozdogan.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Felix Agu takes the honours

Marked 7.37 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fortuna Düsseldorf had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Florian Jäger chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Valgeir Lunddal

“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.

In brief