The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Daley Blind gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daley Blind has just signed for Borussia Dortmund, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Julian Brandt wants more than Borussia Dortmund 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
Serhou Guirassy 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 Dortmund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Daley Blind 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Daniel Svensson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Svensson commits to Borussia Dortmund for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund sign Robert Vogel, one for the future
Robert Vogel is 14, and Borussia Dortmund have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Borussia Dortmund buy the years ahead of Robert Kaiser
- Market Borussia Dortmund buy the years ahead of Niklas Krämer
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Daley Blind