Bayern Munich U18

German Bundesliga U18
17 Feb 2027
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29 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Harry Kane

23 goals and a season average of 7.76 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

A brace, and Harry Kane takes the afternoon — 9.21

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Harry Kane provided it, and the 9.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bayern Munich

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Market

Sven Ulreich has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bayern Munich they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Another one collected away from home

5 on the bounce on the road for Bayern Munich. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Boardroom

Sven Ulreich signs for Eintracht Frankfurt while still at Bayern Munich

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Sven Ulreich has agreed terms with Eintracht Frankfurt for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Match

Harry Kane sends Bayern Munich past Heidenheim

It finished 3‑1, and it was Harry Kane’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bayern Munich.

Squad

Serge Gnabry falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

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From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Jamal Musiala was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 42. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich

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

Squad

A career in one shirt: Manuel Neuer

15 seasons and 574 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Match

9 unbeaten for Bayern Munich

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Bayern Munich did not have in the autumn.

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.

Market

Jamal Musiala 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.

Match

Borussia Dortmund end the Bayern Munich run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

Serge Gnabry stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Serge Gnabry and Bayern Munich agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Scholz

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bayern Munich lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Bayern Munich spend $87.6M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $87.6M has been paid because Bruno Guimarães is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Market

Bayern Munich spend $27.6M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $27.6M has been paid because Nadiem Amiri is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich baulk at the price for Andriy Lunin

Real Madrid wanted more than $39.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Match

Bayern Munich make it 8 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 8 straight wins of it.

Match

Bayern Munich tear Eintracht Frankfurt apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Eintracht Frankfurt, and it could have been more.

Match

The view from the top for Bayern Munich

62 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad

Bruno Guimarães arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bruno Guimarães has, at Bayern Munich, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Both of them Michael Olise's — 8.35

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.35, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Patrick Scholz damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich make their move for Bruno Guimarães

$87.6M on the table at Arsenal. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Assan Ouédraogo at that price

Bayern Munich offered $64.5M; RB Leipzig said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Aurélien Tchouaméni

Bayern Munich asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Nadiem Amiri

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bayern Munich have done the hard part with Mainz 05, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

Cup progress for Bayern Munich

A 1‑0 win over Mainz 05, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Harry Kane

21 goals and a season average of 7.73 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Michael Olise leads the rout of Köln

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

Match

Harry Kane wins it after the whistle should have gone

122 minutes played. Harry Kane found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Mainz 05 went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Too dear: Bayern Munich walk away from João Neves

$80.7M was the most the club would pay and Paris Saint-Germain were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match

No mercy from Bayern Munich

SC Freiburg will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bayern Munich were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Harry Kane is carrying Bayern Munich

20 goals and a season average of 7.70. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Transfer targets

TSG Hoffenheim tell Bayern Munich: Fisnik Asllani 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.

Squad

A day Jamal Musiala will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Bayern Munich make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 5 straight wins of it.

Match

The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich

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

Player ratings

Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 8.32

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.32 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Bayern Munich — 7.69

1 for Alphonso Davies, marked 7.69, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich bid $70.8M for João Neves

The offer went to Paris Saint-Germain 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 targets

Door shut on Rodrygo

Bayern Munich asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich make their move for Assan Ouédraogo

$25.4M on the table at RB Leipzig. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Bayern Munich sign Tim Kleindienst for $25.2M

The paperwork is done: Tim Kleindienst joins from Borussia Mönchengladbach in a deal worth $25.2M. Now comes the harder part.

Player ratings

Serge Gnabry runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich baulk at the price for Eliesse Ben Seghir

Bayer Leverkusen wanted more than $20.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Match

Bayern Munich leave it late against Hamburger SV

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Hamburger SV spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad

Tim Kleindienst gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tim Kleindienst has just signed for Bayern Munich, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Bayern Munich cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich bid $23.5M for Tim Kleindienst

The offer went to Borussia Mönchengladbach 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.

Match

No mercy from Bayern Munich

VfB Stuttgart will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bayern Munich were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich bid $19.2M for Eliesse Ben Seghir

The offer went to Bayer Leverkusen 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.

Match

Nobody above Bayern Munich

First, on 50 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Player ratings

A brace, and Serge Gnabry takes the afternoon — 8.44

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Serge Gnabry provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

The season belongs to Harry Kane

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Bayern Munich have had the benefit of it.

Market

Sven Ulreich hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bayern Munich can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Nobody wins at Bayern Munich

12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Bayern Munich cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bayern Munich tear FC Augsburg apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against FC Augsburg, and it could have been more.

Squad

Harry Kane is carrying Bayern Munich

19 goals and a season average of 7.71. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Both of them Harry Kane's — 9.31

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Alphonso Davies pops up at the right end — 7.81

7.81, 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bayern Munich training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dayot Upamecano is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luis Díaz at his very best

Marked 8.45. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bayern Munich.

Loan watch

12 clean sheets on loan for Daniel Peretz

16 appearances at Southampton and the goals have stopped going in. Bayern Munich lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Bryan Zaragoza’s exile

11 goals in 19 games at Espanyol — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Bayern Munich updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Manuel Neuer
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Alphonso Davies gets picked when it counts
21 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Harry Kane is carrying Bayern Munich

17 goals and a season average of 7.64. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 8.73

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.73 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Match

Bayern Munich make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Words at Bayern Munich training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dayot Upamecano is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Luis Díaz beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Harry Kane sends Bayern Munich past TSG Hoffenheim

It finished 2‑0, and it was Harry Kane’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bayern Munich.

Player ratings

Serge Gnabry was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.48. 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.

Match

The half-term report on Bayern Munich

Position 1, 44 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

RB Leipzig end the Bayern Munich run at 16

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 16 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped 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

Defences have started doubling up on Jamal Musiala

12 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

One of our own: Karl Jäger joins the Bayern Munich first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karl Jäger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Bayern Munich come up short against RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Serge Gnabry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Nobody is scoring past Daniel Peretz at Southampton

11 shut-outs in 14 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Daniel Peretz has been having a lot of them.

Player ratings

Michael Olise runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Benjamin Roth to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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The Bayern Munich Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Whatever happens, Bayern Munich do not lose

16 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings

Alphonso Davies runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The view from the top for Bayern Munich

41 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Harry Kane

16 goals and a season average of 7.62 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Vintage Harry Kane — 8.03

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.03, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Harry Kane 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody wins at Bayern Munich

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Loan watch

Jannis Bärtl wants to come home

“I did not go to Gillingham to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bayern Munich and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

In brief

18 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Whatever happens, Bayern Munich do not lose

15 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

Bayern Munich run riot against Bayer Leverkusen

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Harry Kane scores twice — 9.30

Two goals and a mark of 9.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Harry Kane is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.60 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

The dugout

Jan Hartmann says Bayern Munich went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Bayern Munich make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luis Díaz at his very best

Marked 8.37. 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

Michael Olise in the eights

A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

17 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bayern Munich through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over FC Augsburg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bayern Munich

The unbeaten run reaches 14. 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

Lucas Chevalier keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayern Munich may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alphonso Davies

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both of them Ismael Saibari's — 8.23

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

After 13 games, Bayern Munich finally taste it again

The first defeat in 13 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Mainz 05; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Player ratings

Maycon Cardozo, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68

A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Maycon Cardozo

He is 18 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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bayern Munich cannot stop winning

12 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Ismael Saibari was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

12 Bayern Munich players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 12 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

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

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jamal Musiala

12 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Manuel Neuer

“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.

The terraces

One of their own: Yll Gashi

He is 18 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.

Match

Bayern Munich find a way past St. Pauli

St. Pauli made Bayern Munich work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

15 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

11 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.

Match

No mercy from Bayern Munich

Werder Bremen will want this one forgotten quickly: 7‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bayern Munich were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Harry Kane, 33, rolls back the years — 10.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 10.00 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

3 goals for Harry Kane

The match ball belongs to Harry Kane, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

The view from the top for Bayern Munich

33 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Harry Kane

13 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Michael Olise 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bayern Munich are at home on the road

5 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Market

Jamal Musiala 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bayern Munich make it 10 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 10 straight wins of it.

The dugout

Michael Olise keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayern Munich may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Luis Díaz leads the rout of VfL Wolfsburg

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

Squad

3 goals for Luis Díaz

The match ball belongs to Luis Díaz, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Harry Kane raises the bar for Bayern Munich

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayern Munich heard it as anything else.

Squad

Lucas Chevalier 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Harry Kane is carrying Bayern Munich

10 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Luis Díaz

Marked 8.53 — 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.

Player ratings

Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. 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

13 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

9 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.

Match

Bayern Munich run riot against Union Berlin

5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

A day Michael Olise will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 9.23

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Another one collected away from home

4 on the bounce on the road for Bayern Munich. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Michael Olise reaches 50 goals

50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

Player ratings

Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.49. 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.

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12 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

8 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.

Match

Bayern Munich run riot against Heidenheim

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Alphonso Davies's — 8.29

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

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

Jonas Urbig is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Rio Owen gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rio Owen has just signed for Bayern Munich, and for once the answer mattered.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Guido Della Rovere

At 19 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Ismael Saibari at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bayern Munich.

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11 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bayern Munich silence Borussia Dortmund

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 3‑2, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

7 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.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Jamal Musiala

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Bayern Munich have their man.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Bayern Munich

With 12 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

Squad

Harry Kane 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Kim Min-Jae 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

Real improvement from Yll Gashi at Bayern Munich

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yll Gashi is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

No hiding place for Manuel Neuer

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nathaniel Brown

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.

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10 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now

6 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

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Tom Bischof is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

Market

Konrad Laimer 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

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Jannis Bärtl wants to come home

“I did not go to Gillingham to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bayern Munich and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Match

Michael Olise the difference as Bayern Munich beat Eintracht Frankfurt

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Michael Olise. 1‑0 against Eintracht Frankfurt, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Michael Olise at his very best

Marked 8.39. 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

Nobody could get near Luis Díaz

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

9 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bayern Munich run riot against Köln

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Harry Kane, 33, rolls back the years — 10.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 10.00 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

A day Harry Kane will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Bayern Munich make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Lucas Chevalier

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

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

Jamal Musiala in the eights

A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

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8 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Jamal Musiala leads the rout of SC Freiburg

6‑0, and Jamal Musiala took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bayern Munich tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Vintage Harry Kane — 10.00

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 10.00, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Harry Kane takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

3 goals for Jamal Musiala

The match ball belongs to Jamal Musiala, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

Bayern Munich make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 4 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

Jonas Urbig is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bayern Munich and SC Freiburg in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jamal Musiala

Marked 8.67 — 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.

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7 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Jamal Musiala leads the rout of Hamburger SV

5‑1, and Jamal Musiala took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bayern Munich tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

3 goals for Jamal Musiala

The match ball belongs to Jamal Musiala, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Alphonso Davies scores twice — 8.25

Two goals and a mark of 8.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Bayern Munich cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Ismael Saibari runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

Lucas Chevalier and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Jamal Musiala among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Jamal Musiala on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV.

Squad

Gaël Nlundulu gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gaël Nlundulu has just signed for Bayern Munich, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief

6 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alphonso Davies

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich rebuffed over Angelo Stiller

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. VfB Stuttgart have kept their man, and Bayern Munich go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Both of them Ismael Saibari's — 8.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Bayern Munich

With 12 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

Boardroom

Bayern Munich close the window on a squad of their own making

16 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Frederik Rønnow stays at Union Berlin 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; Union Berlin may not be selling by then.

Squad

Lucas Chevalier 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Bayern Munich supporters have found a favourite in Nathaniel Brown

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nathaniel Brown 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich rebuffed over Aurélien Tchouaméni

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Madrid have kept their man, and Bayern Munich go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Harry Kane leads the rout of FC Augsburg

4‑1, and Harry Kane took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bayern Munich tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

A day Harry Kane will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Harry Kane, 33, rolls back the years — 9.86

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.86 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

An offer of $2.6M for Frederik Rønnow

Bayern Munich have gone to Union Berlin with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jamal Musiala

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.

Squad

Alphonso Davies reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings

Jamal Musiala was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. 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

4 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bayern Munich pay Paris Saint-Germain $42.3M for a proper upgrade

Paris Saint-Germain did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $42.3M for Lucas Chevalier, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Benfica tell Bayern Munich: Vangelis Pavlidis 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Bayern Munich walk away from Jonathan Burkardt

$18.6M was the most the club would pay and Eintracht Frankfurt were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Lucas Chevalier arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Chevalier has, at Bayern Munich, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Not going: Tom Bischof stays at Bayern Munich

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” VfB Stuttgart had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

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

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 104529. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

Squad

Jan Hartmann stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jan Hartmann and Bayern Munich agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$42.3M settles it between the clubs for Lucas Chevalier

Paris Saint-Germain have accepted the money. What Bayern Munich do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marcus Thuram

Bayern Munich asked and Inter said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Köln come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bayern Munich did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Harry Kane 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 Bayern Munich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

VfB Stuttgart watching Tom Bischof

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bayern Munich have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

The Luis Díaz talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bayern Munich know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

A season on the outside for Ross Barkley

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Bayern Munich has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market

Lennart Karl leaves on loan

Lennart Karl joins Union Berlin on loan in search of the minutes he could not find at Bayern Munich.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Vinícius Júnior

Bayern Munich asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Bayern Munich walk away from Phil Foden

$75.1M was the most the club would pay and Manchester City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Bayern Munich say no — this time

The offer from Werder Bremen for Serge Gnabry was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Ross Barkley arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ross Barkley has, at Bayern Munich, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane 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.

Market

Jamal Musiala 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.

Market

Bayern Munich promote Sebastian Bergmann from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Bergmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Bayern Munich promote Helmut Weber from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Helmut Weber has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Ismael Saibari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ismael Saibari commits to Bayern Munich for another 4 years.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bayern Munich Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $52.9M for Phil Foden

Bayern Munich have gone to Manchester City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich rebuffed over Joan García

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Barcelona have kept their man, and Bayern Munich go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Bayern Munich make their move for Diogo Costa

$31.1M on the table at Porto. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A career in one shirt: Manuel Neuer

15 seasons and 568 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Market

Harry Kane 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

Harry Kane signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Harry Kane and Bayern Munich agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Bayern Munich

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dayot Upamecano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Union Berlin join the queue for Lennart Karl

Add another name to the list: Union Berlin have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lennart Karl. The answer from Bayern Munich has not changed — yet.

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