The RB Leipzig Courier
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Christopher Nkunku
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. RB Leipzig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Antonio Nusa, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82
A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Willi Orbán 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
RB Leipzig get the job done against VfB Stuttgart
A 3‑1 win over VfB Stuttgart, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
One of their own: Johan Bakayoko
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Rômulo
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Brajan Gruda at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at RB Leipzig.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rocco Reitz 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Yoel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yoel, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Yoel
- Market The David Raum story refuses to die