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Now the Fun Begins: A Few Thoughts on Deadline Day and What it Means for Werder
Let’s start here: Werder Bremen were not prepared for the start of the season. The signs were there in a pretty lackluster summer where the team didn’t manage a single goal from open play in close to 400 minutes of game time against like competition (TSG Hoffenheim, Calcio Udinese and Parma Calcio). They were confirmed…
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SoonerWerder’s Big, Fat-Ass 2025/26 Bundesliga Preview Which No One Asked For
It’s that time of the year again, folks. A new season is upon us, and you’re probably thinking “Oh my God. I have no idea what signings VfL Wolfsburg made this summer! And who did Hoffenheim sell? Are Heidenheim even still in the league????” Well, fear not. I looked at the summer transfer window for…
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Ready or Not, Here I Come
So, it’s here. The 2025/26 season is upon us. It’s the dawning of a new era at Werder Bremen. Horst Steffen and the boys in green and white will start their season off on Friday in Bielefeld, hoping to avenge the loss that ended last season’s Pokal run. And then, the week after that, it’s…
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Bye-Bye, Birdie (And Ole)
Back when Ole Werner’s departure from Werder Bremen and appointment with the Dirty Dosen in Leipzig became official, I tried to sit down and write an article about the move, specifically focusing on Werner’s legacy and looking forward to Bremen’s new trainer, Horst Steffen. But the more time I spent writing that article, it became…
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2025 Offseason Blog: After Another Successful Season, Where Does Werder Go from Here?
The 2024/25 season is over. And for the fourth year in a row, Werder Bremen improved upon it’s previous season. Promotion in 2022 was an improvement on being sent down 2021. Staying up the next season in 13th with 36 points was (in a way) an improvement on promotion. Then climbing to 9th place with…
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Weekly Werder Write-Up: A Season (Perhaps an Era?) Comes to a Close for Werder at FC Heidenheim
To this we’ve come: the last matchday of 2024/25. These finales always feel so weird to me. On one hand, these seasons are always such a grind for the players, but also for the fans. I remember when I went to 18 matches in the 2022/23 season. I was absolutely spent. And even just watching…
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Weekly Werder Write-Up: European Fantasies on Life Support as Werder Hosts the Dirty Dosen
In December, Werder Bremen looked mostly strong against their previous three opponents. A scrappy 1-0 win in Bochum, a solid 2-0 win at St. Pauli, and a dominant home win over Union Berlin. Fast forward to the Rückrunde, and it’s a completely different story. Werder took only five points in the return fixtures for those…
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Weekly Werder Write-Up: Two Tough-To-Beat Teams Face Off as Bremen Heads to Union Berlin
Werder’s winstreak comes to an end, and they’ll now have to settle for an unbeaten streak after the goalless draw vs St. Pauli. While the table was set for Werder to both climb the ladder some as well as separate themselves more from some teams below them in them in the table, Werder couldn’t muster…
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Weekly Werder Write-Up: A Little Preview for Werder’s Frauen Pokal Final Match Against Bayern
The Werder Frauen have had two solid seasons after a 2022/23 season that was fraught with relegation worries. The team has stabilized themselves and has had some downright amazing games. I’m pretty sure this is one of the best plays I’ve ever seen players wearing a Werder jersey make in my time as a fan.…
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Weekly Werder Write-Up: Red-Hot Werder Hosts Buddies St. Pauli
Werder’s winning-streak continued last weekend vs VfL Bochum. A win is a win, even when it comes with a really weird and dumb technicality of having a defender lying on the ground playing Mitchell Weiser onside for a dead-to-rights goal in front of Bochum keeper Timo Horn. When you’re in a march up the table,…
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