The RB Leipzig Courier
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vicente Guaita damages knee ligaments — 94 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 94 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
Péter Gulácsi wants more than RB Leipzig 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Stiven Palomeque gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Stiven Palomeque has just signed for RB Leipzig, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rocco Reitz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Castello Lukeba 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 RB Leipzig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Johan Bakayoko
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
Johan Bakayoko sends RB Leipzig past FC Augsburg
It finished 1‑0, and it was Johan Bakayoko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to RB Leipzig.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Toni Martínez ran the middle of the pitch — 7.26
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 7.26, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Raúl Rangel gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings Johan Bakayoko takes the honours
- Market RB Leipzig pick up Stiven Palomeque for nothing
- Player ratings Ridle Baku was immovable