The Borussia Mönchengladbach Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Denis Zakaria is a Borussia Mönchengladbach player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Borussia Mönchengladbach baulk at the price for Alexander Røssing-Lelesiit
Hamburger SV wanted more than $6.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Borussia Mönchengladbach did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ko Itakura wants more than Borussia Mönchengladbach are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Franck Honorat stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Franck Honorat and Borussia Mönchengladbach agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kevin Stöger 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 Borussia Mönchengladbach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Borussia Mönchengladbach paid $31.0M
Denis Zakaria was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $31.0M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Market10 Aug 2026
Borussia Mönchengladbach promote Michael Lehmann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Lehmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Denis Zakaria in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Borussia Mönchengladbach are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Robin Hack
- The dugout Franck Honorat knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Ko Itakura still has not settled