The RB Leipzig Courier
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near David Raum
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Willi Orbán has been here 11 seasons
407 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market8 Feb 2027
Castello Lukeba raises the bar for RB Leipzig
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at RB Leipzig heard it as anything else.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at RB Leipzig
Castello Lukeba 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Benjamin Henrichs signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Benjamin Henrichs and RB Leipzig agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Christopher Nkunku falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match6 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, RB Leipzig do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market8 Feb 2027
RB Leipzig promote Daniel Kraus from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Kraus 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Tim Jäger joins the RB Leipzig first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tim Jäger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market RB Leipzig promote Friedrich Lorenz from within
- Match RB Leipzig and Köln take a point apiece
- Player ratings Antonio Nusa ran the game