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The Bayern Munich Courier

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich

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

Match

Bayern Munich make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 7 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Squad

Gabriel Kuhn is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Bayern Munich keep winning on the road

4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Market

Igor Jesus has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Bayern Munich can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Rafael Leão

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Rafael Leão.

Match

Bayern Munich find a way past SC Freiburg

SC Freiburg made Bayern Munich work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ferran Torres

Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bayern Munich

The unbeaten run reaches 37. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich

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

Transfer targets

Barcelona tell Bayern Munich: Pedri is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Igor Jesus puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bayern Munich, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Terms done: Ismael Saibari is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Borussia Mönchengladbach waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bayern Munich is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Only the photograph left for Josip Stanišić

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Josip Stanišić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bayern Munich the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Ousmane Dembélé wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bayern Munich hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Alphonso Davies: 10 seasons and counting

347 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Bayern Munich know exactly what they have.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at Bayern Munich

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

In brief