The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $32.9M for Christoph Baumgartner
Borussia Dortmund have gone to RB Leipzig 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund turn down Bayer Leverkusen for Serhou Guirassy
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund bid $9.7M for Bence Dárdai
The offer went to VfL Wolfsburg 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Serhou Guirassy 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
Maximilian Beier signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maximilian Beier and Borussia Dortmund agree another 5 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund go back to the board over Christoph Baumgartner
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $33.9M — a club that wants Christoph Baumgartner enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Borussia Dortmund
Felix Nmecha and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Hoffmann steps up from the Borussia Dortmund academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Hoffmann has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund promote Jan Lorenz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jan Lorenz 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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Borussia Dortmund training over how hard people work
- Squad The formation has left Lucas Pérez behind
- The dugout Joey Veerman knocks on the manager's door