The RB Leipzig Courier
Market30 Aug 2027
RB Leipzig sign Luke Baartman for $5.6M
The paperwork is done: Luke Baartman joins from Free State Stars in a deal worth $5.6M. Now comes the harder part.
Match28 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for RB Leipzig
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A move Luke Baartman would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luke Baartman is living that version at RB Leipzig, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Frederik Rønnow
RB Leipzig asked and Union Berlin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at RB Leipzig
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Mike Maignan
“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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Bayer Leverkusen take the points off RB Leipzig
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market30 Aug 2027
Stephan Schneider steps up from the RB Leipzig academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephan Schneider 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: David Keller joins the RB Leipzig first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Keller 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 Kevin Bauer steps up from the RB Leipzig academy
- Squad A row about effort at RB Leipzig
- Squad Eljif Elmas wants to go home