The RB Leipzig Courier
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig bid $19.6M for Luiz Júnior
The offer went to Villarreal this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund tell RB Leipzig: Maximilian Beier 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and RB Leipzig did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lukas Klostermann has been here 12 seasons
259 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Willi Orbán 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Willi Orbán stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Willi Orbán and RB Leipzig agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at RB Leipzig
Christopher Nkunku and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between RB Leipzig and Ørjan Nyland
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at RB Leipzig, another week without a signature from Ørjan Nyland.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and RB Leipzig are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Christoph Baumgartner asks for a word with the manager
- Market Leopold Zingerle told to find a new club
- The terraces The David Raum rumours reach the terraces