The FC Augsburg Herald
Market14 Sep 2026
Keven Schlotterbeck 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 FC Augsburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Tobias Jäger at FC Augsburg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tobias Jäger is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kristijan Jakić 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at FC Augsburg
Maxim Leitsch was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Ismaël Gharbi
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ismaël Gharbi sends FC Augsburg past RB Leipzig
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ismaël Gharbi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Augsburg.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Ismaël Gharbi
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Dominik Lainer
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Maxim Leitsch
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Leitsch, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Younes Ebnoutalib
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Kristijan Jakić
- Market The market said no: Mads Pedersen stays put