Maxime Estève

Central Defender - St. Pauli
31 Jan 2027
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Marked for Maxime Estève

25 Edition

The RB Leipzig Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Reda Khadra is a medical away from RB Leipzig

The deal with Qarabag is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market18 Jan 2027

Business is business: Antonio Nusa goes

Borussia Dortmund paid $15.8M and RB Leipzig took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Lucas Chevalier keeps RB Leipzig 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Business is business: Suleman Sani goes

Hamburger SV paid $7.2M and RB Leipzig took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market18 Jan 2027

RB Leipzig turn down TSG Hoffenheim for Maxime Estève

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market18 Jan 2027

Leopold Zingerle moves on

Mainz 05 pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Ridle Baku

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match16 Jan 2027

VfB Stuttgart take the points off RB Leipzig

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match16 Jan 2027

VfB Stuttgart end the RB Leipzig run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The RB Leipzig Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Dec 2026

A one-man rearguard from Lucas Chevalier

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at RB Leipzig

Brajan Gruda 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.

Match12 Dec 2026

A bad afternoon for RB Leipzig against Bayern Munich

1‑3 to Bayern Munich, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Alexander Richter answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Market14 Dec 2026

Assan Ouédraogo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at RB Leipzig has been clear about where Assan Ouédraogo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Christopher Nkunku runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Maxime Estève

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Ridle Baku will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Ridle Baku is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

11 Edition

The RB Leipzig Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ridle Baku pops up at the right end — 7.98

7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Suleman Sani at RB Leipzig

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Suleman Sani is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

8 RB Leipzig players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 8 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Christopher Nkunku at his very best

Marked 8.91. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at RB Leipzig.

The terraces12 Oct 2026

RB Leipzig supporters have found a favourite in Samba Konaté

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Samba Konaté 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Ridle Baku sends RB Leipzig past Köln

It finished 2‑0, and it was Ridle Baku’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to RB Leipzig.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Maxime Estève

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxime Estève, and the manager let it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Alexander Richter has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alexander Richter on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Nicolas Seiwald

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief