The Bayern Munich Courier
Squad4 Nov 2047
A knee injury of the worst kind for Àlex Herrero
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bayern Munich lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match2 Nov 2047
Bayern Munich let it slip despite Gustavo Costa
Gustavo Costa had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Werder Bremen were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings4 Nov 2047
Gustavo Costa scores twice — 8.75
Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad4 Nov 2047
Arnaut Janssen keeps Bayern Munich in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market4 Nov 2047
Tim Möller is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bayern Munich is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad4 Nov 2047
Bayern Munich count the cost of losing Jun'ai Byfield
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Nov 2047
Tempers go at Bayern Munich
Christian Kjaer 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.
Boardroom4 Nov 2047
Bayern Munich release $26.4M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Match2 Nov 2047
Honours even between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Nacer Doku
- Market Daniel Schmidt told to find a new club
- Market The Christian Kjaer talk will not go away