Schalke teenager Leroy Sane is doing something that all fans love to see. He’s changing games. A series of dazzling performances in the Bundesliga this season have ensured the German’s name is firmly on the lips of scouts across Europe, including those in the Premier League. Sane reportedly resisted a summer move to Liverpool when Brendan
One of the stories of the season in the Bundesliga so far has been that of SV Darmstadt, and the newly promoted club’s bright start to the campaign. Key to their plans has been the influential Konstantin Rausch, who joined the club in the summer from Stuttgart on a free transfer. Darmstadt ended their 33
German football has produced plenty of exciting young talents in recent years and the latest to make a big impression on the Bundesliga is Hertha Berlin midfielder Mitch Weiser. Despite being only 21 years old, he is by no means a new name to fans of German football but his progress has been more staggered
Anthony Ujah is building quite a reputation for himself at Werder Bremen following his summer move after an eye-catching run of six goals in seven matches. The Nigerian international reached double figures for Köln last season and was a key reason why the newly promoted club managed to survive. A summer transfer to supposedly bigger
To show what he was going to do against Schalke’s defence back in March, Hertha Berlin striker Salomon Kalou decided to use the Berlin Wall, taking a hammer and chisel to one of Europe’s most iconic landmarks. Those actions saw him reportedly face a €10,000 fine, which Kalou denied, and it backfired on the Ivorian
“Yeni Mesut Ozil” is the cry about the Bundesliga’s freshest exciting playmaker. Born in Germany with Turkish heritage and now lighting up the German top-flight after patient progression at youth level, the similarities with the earliest stages of Ozil’s career are certainly there, but Yunus Malli will not be following Ozil in terms of international
Can Bayern Munich win the Champions League? And why is it a huge deal for Pep Guardiola if they do? Well, it’s fairly obvious that to win the Champions League is something momentous, particularly if you do it with more than one club, but in recent years Guardiola has failed to pass the semi-final stage,
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The level of scrutiny on Brendan Rodgers this season, having acquiesced wholesale changes to his backroom staff over the summer, was always going to be more intense having spent in excess of £70 million to improve on last year’s dismal campaign, but it still seems obscene that he should be under pressure after just five
Growing internet whispers suggest Man City are prepared to part with approximately £47m to seal the signing of Kevin De Bruyne. Wolfsburg’s director of sport, Klaus Allofs, admits the Belgian’s “head has been turned” by talk of a transfer. If De Bruyne, who enjoyed one of the most entertainingly productive seasons in Europe last season,
You might have noticed a lot of hype around Bayern Munich in FIFA Ultimate Team and FIFA 16 Career Mode. There is a simple reason for that: Bayern has a lot of quality players. We have sorted the Bavarians in order of their ranking in FIFA 16. Let’s find out where your favorite stands.
One of the exciting talents that emerged in the Bundesliga recently has been left back Abdul Baba Rahman. The twenty-one year old Ghanaian plies his trade for first division side Augsburg. Baba Rahman is a product of the Dreams Football Academy in Accra. He joined Ghanaian giants Asante Kotoko before sealing his first foreign deal
The Gabonian striker Pierre Emerick Aubameyang has pledged his future to ️Borussia Dortmund by signing a new deal, which will see him stay at the Signal Iduna Park until 2020. Aubameyang was his team’s top scorer last season and has proved on several occasions that he is well suited to play at the number 9
After making the shock move from ️Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich for £37m, the 23 year old Germany international has been struggling to replicate his old, prodigious self. The young exciting player, who had all eyes pierced at him from on-lookers and observers, failed to live up to that expectation at his new home. And
Bayern Munich and Germany international star has been heavily linked with a move away from the Allianz Arena. Will he join former teammate Bastian Schweinsteiger in leaving the German champions for newer pastures? It has been the top transfer news in recent weeks, Manchester United have launched an enormous €100m to lure Thomas Müller away
Name: Kostas Stafylidis Position: Left back Age: 21 Country: Greece Club: Bayer Leverkusen Technically gifted and attack-minded, Kostas Stafylidis is the latest in a long line of exciting full backs produced by Greece (Giourkas Seitaridis, Takis Fyssas and Vasilis Torosidis are his predecessors). A series of eye-catching performances at major tournaments for Greece’s national
Throughout the spring there have been rumours about Son Heung-Min moving to Anfield, and there are plenty of European clubs keeping a close eye on Son this summer. The twenty-three year old had a phenomenal season for Bayer Leverkusen scoring eleven goals in the Bundesliga, and seventeen in total, as he helped Leverkusen finish fourth
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It has been a very long and tiring 2014/15 campaign for Borussia Dortmund. The black and yellows started the season in bad fettle as they struggled to come out of the relegation zone. Even worse they found themselves bottom of the pile in February before a remarkable resurgence saw them finish 7th, enabling them to
The 2014/15 Bundesliga is all over but the fighting, of which there has been lots. Emir Spahic was sacked by Bayer Leverkusen for head-butting a steward after a cup defeat to Bayern Munich, while Hamburg’s Johan Djorou and Valon Behrami went at it during half-time in their match with Wolfsburg. Those were unsavoury incidents in
To celebrate the German title being decided, we’ve dedicated this week’s football crossword to all things Bundesliga. So if you think you know your Frankfurts and your Freiburgs, come with us on another puzzle adventure! Clues Across 7 Schalke 04’s Italian manager (2,6) 8 _ McInally, Scotsman who joined Bayern Munich in 1989 (4) 9 Johnny
April 15, 2024 was a day that would prove vital in the history of Borussia Dortmund as the charismatic manager Jürgen Klopp announced in a press conference that he will be leaving the Black and Yellow at the end of the season by stating that he was not the perfect man for this honorable job
So the brilliant reign of Jürgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund is at a close as the 47 year old will bow out at the end of this season following seven years at the club. In a press conference that was held on Wednesday Klopp announced that he had not received contact from another club but
Locked in battle with Borussia Monchendgladbach for the Bundesliga’s 3rd automatic Champions League qualification spot, Bayer Leverkusen winger Karim Bellarabi is clear where he wants his team to finish. “Now we are up where we want to still be at the end of the season” he said, after his winner against Schalke in late March
With Hamburger SV in the bottom three, two points adrift of safety with eight games to go, the Bundesliga could realistically be about to lose its only ever-present club. Hamburg have played in each Bundesliga season since its inception in 1963 and, fifty-two years later, may be about to experience their first ever relegation having