David Lang

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Process

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The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kenan Yıldız

Borussia Dortmund asked and Juventus said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Borussia Dortmund bid $6.1M for Youssoufa Moukoko

The offer went to FC Copenhagen this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

Borussia Dortmund go back to the board over Florian Wirtz

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $140.2M — a club that wants Florian Wirtz enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Tempers go at Borussia Dortmund

Felix Nmecha 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.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Borussia Dortmund

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

One of our own: Patrick Berger joins the Borussia Dortmund first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Berger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Deniz Undav is in the works

Borussia Dortmund have made the call to VfB Stuttgart. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

David Lang stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Lang and Borussia Dortmund agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

The Felix Nmecha talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Borussia Dortmund know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $113.7M for Florian Wirtz

Borussia Dortmund have gone to Liverpool with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Vinícius Júnior

Borussia Dortmund asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Borussia Dortmund baulk at the price for Assan Ouédraogo

RB Leipzig wanted more than $20.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Business is business: Carney Chukwuemeka goes

TSG Hoffenheim paid $23.9M and Borussia Dortmund took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Silas Ostrzinski moves on

FC Augsburg pay $3.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Felix Nmecha 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.

Market

The Maximilian Beier question follows Borussia Dortmund around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maximilian Beier’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

A season on the outside for Giannis Konstantelias

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Borussia Dortmund has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

The dugout

David Lang knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Lang trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief