The RB Leipzig Courier
Squad23 Apr 2029
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.
Market23 Apr 2029
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.
Market23 Apr 2029
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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
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 dugout23 Apr 2029
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 dugout23 Apr 2029
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 dugout23 Apr 2029
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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
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
- The dugout Sebastian Sebulonsen asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Maarten Vandevoordt talk will not go away
- Loan watch Arthur Vermeeren has made Eintracht Frankfurt’s shirt his own