The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Can Uzun
Borussia Dortmund asked and Eintracht Frankfurt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund say no — this time
The offer from Torpedo Moscow for Konstantinos Karetsas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Borussia Dortmund
Gregor Kobel 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marko Tolić arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Marko Tolić has, at Borussia Dortmund, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nürnberg watching Filippo Mané
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Borussia Dortmund have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jan Schäfer steps up from the Borussia Dortmund academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Schäfer 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Borussia Dortmund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Rodríguez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout Joey Veerman knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces The glare is on Marko Tolić
- The dugout The manager comes out for Serhou Guirassy