Patrick Lorenz

Left Forward - Bayern Munich U18
16 Jul 2028
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The Bayern Munich Courier

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich

25 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match

Cup progress for Bayern Munich

A 2‑0 win over Greuther Fürth, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

8 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

A debut Patrick Lorenz will not forget — 7.89

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.89 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match

Kai Havertz settles it late for Bayern Munich

The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Kai Havertz decided nobody was going anywhere. VfB Stuttgart had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

Both of them Kai Havertz's — 8.58

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.58, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Brayan Nzita beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Felipe Chávez at 20 — 8.15

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Felipe Chávez did not need any: 8.15, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

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

In brief

Back issues
58 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jonathan Tah 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 Bayern Munich can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 12 signed and 16 gone

That is the business done at Bayern Munich until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Jamal Musiala wants more than Bayern Munich 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.

Squad

Harry Kane 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Bryan Zaragoza attracts admirers

The name of Bryan Zaragoza has come up in conversations Bayern Munich were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

VfL Wolfsburg are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bayern Munich will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Frans Krätzig

Bayern Munich asked and Zurich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Daniel Peretz wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bayern Munich know it.

Squad

12 new faces, and Bayern Munich are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief