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The 3:0 loss suffered by 1. FC Köln at the hands of FC Kaiserslautern last Friday has had more repercussions than just removing Köln from their place among the top three less than a week after achieving the position for the first time all season. As much as fans of the Effzeh would likely prefer [...]

It is hard to believe that it was only eight-and-a-half years ago when Werder Bremen won a historic league and cup double, the first in their history. This was achieved under the tutelage of long-serving manager Thomas Schaaf, who is coming under increasing pressure after his beloved Werder’s lacklustre underachievement this season. With the vast [...]

In the early to late 00‘s and recently up until this summer Werder Bremen was a hot bed for top Bundesliga talent. Miroslav Klose, Per Mertesacker, Mesut Özil, Claudio Pizarro, Marco Marin and to a lesser extent players like Naldo and Hugo Almeida led Bremen to varied amounts of success in the past decade. Winning [...]

This season Werder Bremen has been nothing but mid-table, rising no higher than 7th, but never really being in the relegation discussion as they haven’t dropped below 13th so far. Many clubs would be pleased with this, but Bremen won the league as recently as the 2003-2004 season and have finished 2nd for the Meisterschale to [...]

And so it begins.  A new era dawns in Wolfsburg. The transition of the one-man rule of Felix Magath at VfL Wolfsburg is now finished, as former Werder Bremen Sporting Director Klaus Allofs was hired in November and Dieter Hecking was brought in over winter break from 1. FC Nürnberg to run the club on the [...]

The last couple of seasons under Thomas Schaaf have been a trying time both for the longest-serving coach in the league and the fans of the green and whites. Whilst the defense turned out to be as leaky as it ever was, Werder didn’t manage to live up to their reputation of scoring goals left, [...]

After a long search, Werder Bremen have finally found the man to replace long time sporting director Klaus Allofs who left for Wolfsburg in November in former Borussia Mönchengladbach and Nürnberg player Thomas Eichin. The 46 year old is not going into the job blind and has experience managing a team but surprisingly it isn’t [...]

VfL Wolfsburg have announced the appointment of 1 FC Nürnberg coach Dieter Hecking as team manager.  Hecking, 48, had coached Der Club since December, 2009, amassing a 42-23-47 record.  The native of Castrop-Rauxel, in the Ruhr Valley area, began his coaching career in 2000 with SC Verl following a 17 year playing career, and also managed VfB Lübeck, [...]

Around two months ago, I wrote a piece criticising Felix Magath’s transfer policy and suggesting he might be on his way out of Wolfsburg. Six weeks after Magath’s departure, much has changed both on and off the field. In the end, Felix Magath found himself caught between the old and the new at Wolfsburg. He was [...]

The writing had been on the wall for some time but now it is official: Klaus Allofs has left Werder Bremen to join VfL Wolfsburg to climb Mount Magath. Werder’s former sporting director has signed a deal at Wolfsburg until the end of the 2015/16 season. Allofs’ new employer is going to pay him between [...]