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1Oct By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Borussia Dortmund expect to lose Sancho to premier league club

Borussia Dortmund expect to lose England winger Jadon Sancho to a Premier League club with both Manchester United and City reportedly tracking the teenager, director of sport Michael Zorc has admitted.After turning down a new Manchester City contract to join Dortmund in August 2017, Sancho, still only 19, made his England debut last October on the back of stunning performances for the German club.He has scored 18 goals with 29 assists in 64 games for Dortmund who in the current market can expect around 100 million euros ($109 million) for Sancho having paid eight million pounds for him after he signed a five-year deal until June 2022.According to the British media, United and ex-club City are monitoring him.Sancho has made a great start to the season with four goals and six assists in nine...

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30Sep By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Bayern Munich handed major injury boost ahead of Champions League clash

Bayern Munich will be at full strength for their Champions League group stage meeting with Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday.The German champions, who comfortably beat Red Star Belgrade in their Group B opener, will be looking to continue their 100 percent start to the competition against a Spurs side that squandered a two-goal lead to draw with Olympiacos in Athens earlier this month.It will be a first ever trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for Munich and Niko Kovac has been given an injury boost ahead of their trip to London.Bayern Munich’s official club website revealed that on-loan Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic, who missed their Bundesliga victory over Paderborn on Saturday with a ‘flu-like infection, is fit and available for selection and is likely to part of their travelling party f...

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28Sep By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Bayern bosses congratulate Fritz Keller on becoming new DFB President

Fritz Keller, President of SC Freiburg, has been elected to be the new president of the DFB. Kelle succeeds Reinhard Grindel, who stepped down from the post in April after a scandal-ridden term marred by the sporting failure in Russia, controversy over race, and corruption. Keller was officially elected for a three-year term by result of a unanimous, unopposed decision by a group of voting delegates at the DFB headquarter in Frankfurt.Bayern Munich club president Uli Hoeness and CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge congratulated the 62-year-old on his accomplishment. Both Hoeness and Rummenigge are fond of Keller and feel he’s the right man to lead the DFB to a better place in the future.Hoeness stated in a release at FCBayern.com,“I congratulate Fritz Keller for the unanimous result. I am ...

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15Sep By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Freiburg ease past Hoffenheim as Schalke make it two wins in a row

Freiburg ease past hosts Hoffenheim 3-0 on Sunday to climb to third place with their best-ever league start.First-half goals from Christian Guenter and Janik Haberer and a third on the hour by Nils Petersen gave Christian Streich’s team a deserved victory and maintained their fine start to the season.Freiburg are in third place on nine points, one ahead of champions Bayern Munich, who drew 1-1 at RB Leipzig on Saturday.Schalke 04 fired five goals past hosts Paderborn after falling a goal behind to earn their second straight win.Cauly put the hosts ahead but the Royal Blues roared back with goals from Salif Sane and Suat Serdar.Amine Harit then scored either side of an Ahmed Kutucu goal to make it 5-1 as Schalke climbed to seven points.Leipzig lead the standings on 10, with Borussia Dortmun...

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31Aug By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Bayern Munich thrash Mainz to stay second

Bayern Munich scored six times in a span of 45 minutes to come from a goal down and crush visitors Mainz 05 6-1 on Saturday and climb to seven points from three games, two off the top.After an unexpected home draw on the opening matchday Bayern have now won their last two matches convincingly, scoring nine goals and moving up to seven points.RB Leipzig are top on nine points after their 3-1 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday. Borussia Dortmund on six points, are in action at Union Berlin later on Saturday. Benjamin Pavard's fine volley in the 36th minute cancelled out Mainz's lead through a Jean-Paul Boetius header and launched Bayern's sustained attack.A sensational David Alaba free kick on the stroke of halftime turned the game around before Ivan Perisic gave Bayern a two-go...

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25Aug By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Robert Lewandowski score Hat-trick as Coutinho make his Bundesliga debut for Bayern

Robert Lewandowski single-handedly made Bayern Munich's quest for an eighth Bundesliga title look a lot more likely, as the Bavarian stalwart contributed a hat-trick to provide Niko Kovac's side with their first win of the season at Schalke.Unable to take three points from an opening game at Hertha Berlin when scoring twice, the Polish striker was avenged at the Veltins-Arena after Schalke were thrashed 3-0 by the title holders.Summer signings Phillipe Coutinho and Ivan Perisic both made their Bayern debuts, replacing Thomas Muller and Serge Gnabry despite Kovac expressing concerns about Barcelona loanee Coutinho's fitness in a pre-match press conference.Lewandowski produced the first chance of the game from an early free-kick, but the resulting shot was comfortably dealt with by Schalke's...

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17Aug By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Borussia Dortmund crush Augsburg to set title marker

Title contenders Borussia Dortmund crushed Augsburg 5-1 in their Bundesliga opener on Saturday, with two goals from Paco Alcacer, to lay down an emphatic marker after champions Bayern Munich slipped up in their first game of the season a day earlier.Augsburg stunned the hosts with Florian Niederlechner's goal after only 30 seconds but Dortmund quickly recovered to level with Spaniard Alcacer, Dortmund's top scorer last season, in the third minute.They turned up the tempo in the second half, scoring three goals in a span of eight minutes.England international Jadon Sanchofired them ahead in the 51st and the teenager then helped set up goals for Marco Reus and Alcacer. Substitute Julian Brandt volleyed in their fifth in the 82nd.Bayern, who have won the last seven consecutive league titles, ...

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16Aug By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Hertha hold Bayern Munich to a draw in season-opener

Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich were held to a frustrating  2-2 draw on the opening evening of the domestic season.Robert Lewandowski scored both goals for Nico Kovac's side but it wasn't enough against a spirited Hertha Berlin.The visitors were leading 2-1 before Lewandowski equalised from the penalty spot on the hour mark.

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4Aug By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Sancho leads Dortmund to German Supercup win over Bayern

England forward Jadon Sancho scored a goal and set-up another as Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 2-0 on Saturday to deny the German league and cup champions a fourth straight Supercup title. Jadon Sancho, 19, fed Spain forward Paco Alcacer for Dortmund's opener just after the break before clinching the victory and his side's first trophy since 2017 with a clinical finish within the final half an hour of play. "We absolutely wanted to win this match, it was very difficult," said Dortmund coach Lucien Favre."Bayern were very strong and had a lot of possession but we defended well and stayed very compact."We knew that we had to go on the counter-attack and we did that very well."Bayern, who pipped Favre's side to the Bundesliga title last season and lifted the German Cup, were ...

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29Jul By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Klopp & Reus Win Big in German Football Awards

Borussia Dortmund captain Marco Reus has been named Footballer of the Year in Germany for the second time in his career.The Association of German Sports Journalists, in conjunction with football magazine Kicker, gave Reus 150 of the 540 votes cast to place him ahead of Bayer Leverkusen prodigy Kai Havertz and Bayern Munich full-back Joshua Kimmich.Reus’ former Dortmund boss, Jurgen Klopp, earned the Coach of the Year title after leading Liverpool to glory in the Champions League.The accolades are considered the most prestigious of their kind in Germany, and this latest honour holds particular value for 30-year-old winger Reus, who battled back from an injury riddled 2017-18 season to score 21 competitive goals for BVB last term.Reds manager Klopp is now a three-time Coach of the Year winne...

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29Jul By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Kovac Confident Sane Will Join Bayern

Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac says he remains confident a deal can be done to sign Manchester City winger Leroy Sane.The 23-year-old has long been associated with a move to the Bavarian giants from the Premier League champions, with Bayern looking to replace legendary widemen Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben who both left the club at the end of last season after long spells filled with trophies.Kovac has described Sane as Bayern’s ‘dream player’, while club icon Lotthar Matthaus says he could be the new face of the club.Kovac issued an update on their hunt for the player on Sunday and said the whole club was focused on getting a deal over the line.“Our club management is very committed behind it and I’m very confident,” the 47-year-old coach told ZDF in Germany. “I assume that we can g...

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27Jun By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Borussia Dortmund ready to sell Julian Weigl amid PSG and Arsenal

Arsenal have been given a boost in their attempts to make their first signing of the summer after it was revealed that Borussia Dortmund are willing to sell midfielder Julian Weigl.Dortmund value the 23-year-old at around £27m, which is affordable for the Gunners as manager Unai Emery reportedly has a transfer budget of £45m to spend this summer.The Bundesliga runners-up are allegedly happy to let Weigl go due to their recent capture of Mats Hummels from Bayern Munich, with Weigl falling down the pecking order at the club.The Germany international, who has won five caps for his country, made just 17 appearances for Dortmund in all competitions last season, scoring once, and is not regarded as a key player to hold on to.Arsenal may face competition for his signature, however, as Paris Saint...

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26Jun By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Arsenal Reportedly Keen on signing Borussia Dortmund defender

Arsenal are keen on signing Borussia Dortmund defender Dan-Axel Zagadou this summer, according to reports in the British media.The Daily Mirror is reporting that the north London club have been impressed by what they have seen from Zagadou in recent months and are pondering a move to bring him to The Emirates.The same story says that Arsenal are also trying to sign Saint-Etienne teenager William Saliba in the summer transfer window.The 20-year-old Zagadou scored two goals in 17 Bundesliga appearances for Borussia Dortmund last season and also notched up four appearances in the Champions League.Central defender Zagadou has also played at every level of France’s international set-up from the Under-16s upwards.According to the same story, Zagadou could be available for transfer this summer af...

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18Jun By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Borussia Dortmund Head Coach Lucien Favre Extends deal

Borussia Dortmund have announced head coach Lucien Favre has extended his stay by a further 12 months.The Bundesliga outfit appointed Favre last summer on a two-year contract but the 61-year-old’s has been rewarded with a bumper new deal.Favre’s new contract now runs until the summer of 2021 after Dortmund came close to dethroning Bayern Munich as Bundesliga champions last season.Bayern only sealed the Bundesliga title on the last weekend of the campaign after Dortmund pushed them the entire way.Dortmund even lead Bayern by as many as seven points clear at the start of February before dropping points in seven of their final 15 league matches.Dortmund ended up finishing two points behind champions Bayern but have already set out to close the gap for next season.Favre’s side have already bol...

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15Jun By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Reports : Hummels Set for Shock Dortmund Return

Bayern Munich defender Mats Hummels is in advanced talks to make a return to Borussia Dortmund for €30m (£27m), according to Sky in Germany. World Cup winner Hummels began his career with Bayern before making a move to Dortmund in 2009, following a year on loan there. In 2016 he returned to the Allianz Arena, having played 309 times for the Schwarzgelben, winning two Bundesliga titles and a German Cup along the way. The 30-year-old central defender has won seven trophies in his last three seasons with Bayern - including three straight Bundesliga titles. But Hummels now looks set to leave Munich, with fellow 30-year-old centre-back Jerome Boateng also likely to depart.

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4Jun By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Rangnick to Leave RB Leipzig

Ralf Rangnick will leave RB Leipzig on July 1, the Bundesliga club have announced, and Markus Krosche has been appointed as the club's new sporting director. The club confirmed the news in a statement, saying: "Markus Krosche is the club's new sporting director for the upcoming season. The 38-year-old arrives from newly-promoted Paderborn and has signed a contract until June 30, 2022. "In addition, the two clubs have agreed a long-term partnership. The fee, at both clubs' behest, will remain undisclosed. "Current sporting director Ralf Rangnick, at his own request, will become Head of Sport and Development Soccer at Red Bull from July 1. The 60-year-old will have an advisory role for football clubs in New York, Brazil and Leipzig." Rangnick had been sporting director at Leipzig since June ...

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29May By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Sane Deal Financially 'Difficult', Accepts Bayern President

A deal to bring Leroy Sane to Bayern Munich from Manchester City is looking increasingly difficult from a financial perspective, according to the Bundesliga champions' president Uli Hoeness.Bayern are embarking on a rebuild over the coming months as they look set to move on several ageing players, with Rafinha, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery already departed.As such, Bayern are being heavily linked with a number of younger wingers and Sane has emerged as a primary target, with the club doing little to hide their desire to sign him.The Germany international joined City from Schalke in 2016 and, after a promising first season, he exploded in 2017-18, scoring 10 Premier League goals and setting up another 15 as he was named the Professional Footballers' Association's Young Player of the Year....

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28May By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Union Berlin Secure 1st Ever Bundesliga Promotion

FC Union Berlin became the 5th team from Berlin to play in the Bundesliga. No other city has had more than 2. The others are:▪️Hertha BSC  ▪️Tennis Borussia Berlin  ▪️SV Blau Weiss Berlin  ▪️Tasmania 1900 BerlinMatch: Union Berlin 0-0 Stuttgart (agg. 2-2)Following a dramatic relegation playoff fixture against Stuttgart, Union Berlin sealed their first ever Bundesliga promotion.Union held firm at home to deny Stuttgart and progress by virtue of 2 away goals they scored in the first leg.Just nine minutes into the second leg, Dennis Aogo put Stuttgart ahead with a superb freekick. However, VAR ruled it out as Nico Gonzalez was standing in an offside position and was in the line of sight of the keeper. Nigerian striker Suleiman Abdullahi hit the post twi...

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26May By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Lewandowski Brace Helps Bayern Win DFB-Pokal

Robert Lewandowski's double and a thumping finish from Kingsley Coman ensured Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig 3-0 to win the DFB-Pokal and complete a domestic double in Niko Kovac's first season.Having secured a seventh straight Bundesliga title last time out, Bayern went ahead against a resilient Leipzig - featuring in their first ever major final - thanks to Lewandowski's wonderful 29th-minute header.Things would have been different if not for Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who on his return from injury pulled off a pair of fantastic stops to deny Yussuf Poulsen and Emil Forsberg.Thiago Alcantara passed up a golden chance to extend the lead, but his miss mattered little as Coman made sure of Bayern's first domestic double in three years before Lewandowski's delicate chip rounded off a fin...

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24May By Silver EmmanuelNo Comments

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Bayern Munich confirm interest in Leroy Sane

Bayern Munich’s pursuit of German international Leroy Sane has passed from rumor to reality: club president Uli Hoeness confirmed to the Suddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday, “We are working on this personnel matter.”Kicker  reported Bayern’s interest in Sane on Monday. Bild reported on Tuesday that Hoeness wants to sign Sane to make Bayern’s wingers the same as the German national team’s — a new FC Deutschland. And just yesterday Robert Lewandowski praised Sane as a “super player with great qualities and great potential... a player who can immediately take us higher, who improves the team.”Hoeness’ comment all but guarantees that Bayern’s interest in Sane is very, very serious. It is reported that Pep Guardiola would like to move on from Sane, and Sane’s only other interest, besides ...

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