Marc Krüger

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Process

Marked for Marc Krüger

143 Edition

The RB Leipzig Courier

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Marc Krüger out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. RB Leipzig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Rogério hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what RB Leipzig can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Conrad Harder

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Conrad Harder will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around RB Leipzig the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at RB Leipzig

Lutsharel Geertruida and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at RB Leipzig

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maarten Vandevoordt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Malang Sarr gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Rômulo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rômulo is on it.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Daniel Fila

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. RB Leipzig told Daniel Fila something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Oscar Højlund now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether RB Leipzig can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

In brief

Back issues
142 Edition

The RB Leipzig Courier

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Marc Krüger out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. RB Leipzig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

RB Leipzig finish in position 7

52 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market

Philipp Sander hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what RB Leipzig can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ota Yamamoto

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ota Yamamoto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around RB Leipzig the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Lutsharel Geertruida 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 RB Leipzig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at RB Leipzig training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maarten Vandevoordt 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maarten Vandevoordt

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Borussia Mönchengladbach take the points off RB Leipzig

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces

RB Leipzig supporters have found a favourite in Assan Ouédraogo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Assan Ouédraogo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief