Shock diagnosis
“Don’t whine”: Werder reacts to wise injury
07/17/2025 – 4:51 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
This diagnosis was a shock: Mitchell Weiser suffers a cruciate ligament tear and will be missing Werder Bremen for a long time. Clemens Fritz is affected.
Werder Bremen shared the bitter news on Wednesday: Supers Mitchell Weiser suffered a crack in his cruciate ligament in the right knee in training and fails for months. Werder’s football boss Clemens Fritz is affected one day after the shock diagnosis.
“If you get such a message, it is of course a shock,” Fritz told the “Deichstube” portal: “Sportily, the failure hurts very much, but I am also extremely sorry for Mitch.”
After the serious injury, the necessary forms of treatment and therapy should be finally clarified in the next few days. “We still can’t do anything else than to accept the situation now and make the best possible out of it,” continued Fritz: “We will remain positive and will not whine now.”
Weiser is currently increasing injury worries at Werder. Because striker Marvin Ducksch (Wade) and midfielder Jens Stage (foot) are currently out and will not travel to the Austrian Zillertal next Tuesday. This trio had ensured most of the club’s scorer points in the past season.
The failures can also have an impact on the transfer efforts of the Bremen. Because Ducksch and Stage, like Romano Schmid, are among the potential selling candidates who could rinse money into the cash register.
So far, Werder has only borrowed defender Maximilian Wöber from the English Premier League promoter Leeds United. The new trainer Horst Steffen said at the start of the training: “In the front area we think about whether something else is happening. And it is clear that something may happen on the right.” Positions on which Ducksch and Weiser are at home.
Football boss Fritz does not want to panic. “Mitch’s failure does not throw all the plans over the pile,” said the 44-year-old: “But he is one of our leaders-and of course we now have to see exactly what we can do. We are already talking about what options are available for us.” According to media reports, Werder is interested in the commitment of 21-year-old Belgian Samuel Mbangula (Juventus Turin).