Alphonso Davies

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17 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bayern Munich through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over SV Elversberg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

4 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Michael Olise

10 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The terraces

Bayern Munich supporters have found a favourite in Jamal Musiala

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jamal Musiala has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Bayern Munich find a way past VfL Wolfsburg

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

Player ratings

Jamal Musiala was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.45. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Luis Díaz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.41. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Michael Olise at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bayern Munich.

Player ratings

Raphaël Guerreiro was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.28. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 8.13

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.13 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayern Munich

Dayot Upamecano 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bayern Munich

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout

Harry Kane has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bayern Munich will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Alphonso Davies is still paying for one afternoon at Bayern Munich

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Alphonso Davies now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Bayern Munich can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

Match

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

René Albrecht on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” René Albrecht after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Market

The Joshua Kimmich question follows Bayern Munich around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joshua Kimmich’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

7 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Jamal Musiala leads the rout of VfB Stuttgart

3‑0, and Jamal Musiala took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bayern Munich tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Konrad Laimer 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.

Player ratings

Jamal Musiala scores twice — 8.58

Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

Vincenzo Grifo stays at SC Freiburg as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Bayern Munich will try again when the window opens; SC Freiburg may not be selling by then.

Market

Alphonso Davies 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

Tempers go at Bayern Munich

Levi Colwill 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Jamal Musiala

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.43. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Joshua Kimmich was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief