Nicolas Jackson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Bayern Munich
20 Jan 2027
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17 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Nicolas Jackson sends Bayern Munich through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nicolas Jackson obliged against FC Augsburg. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Bayern Munich.

Squad

Manuel Neuer keeps Bayern Munich in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Harry Kane in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Samu Aghehowa

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Bayern Munich come up short against Mainz 05

Mainz 05 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Samu Aghehowa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nicolas Jackson at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bayern Munich.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bayern Munich dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

A promise honoured for Rasmus Højlund

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bayern Munich told Rasmus Højlund something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

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16 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Kim Min-Jae delivers — 7.87

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Kim Min-Jae scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Bayern Munich find a way past St. Pauli

St. Pauli made Bayern Munich work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Bayern Munich supporters have found a favourite in Samu Aghehowa

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Samu Aghehowa has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Jamal Musiala runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Ismael Saibari at the heart of a fast Bayern Munich start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Ismael Saibari in the middle of it, and St. Pauli unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Rasmus Højlund has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bayern Munich will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Kim Min-Jae is off the mark for Bayern Munich

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief