The RB Leipzig Courier
Market31 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig sign Dan-Axel Zagadou for $13.4M
The paperwork is done: Dan-Axel Zagadou joins from VfB Stuttgart in a deal worth $13.4M. Now comes the harder part.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Johan Bakayoko
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dan-Axel Zagadou gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dan-Axel Zagadou has just signed for RB Leipzig, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Castello Lukeba 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 RB Leipzig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at RB Leipzig training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johan Bakayoko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mika Walther pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
In brief
- Player ratings David Raum never got going
- Market The Antonio Nusa story refuses to die
- Match No goals between RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen