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Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Match28 Nov 2026
7 matches without defeat, and then Bayer Leverkusen. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Match28 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Jamal Musiala
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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Kim Min-Jae 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Triumph
Match18 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over FC Augsburg, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match18 Nov 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. FC Augsburg will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match21 Nov 2026
7 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Bayern Munich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Eriksen 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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 terraces23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Bayern Munich
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
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Triumph
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.21, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match14 Nov 2026
5 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.95, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.99 for the rest of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
International break empties Bayern Munich
11 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
St. Pauli made Bayern Munich work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
He is 22 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
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Bayern Munich
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Player ratings
An own goal to forget for Christoph Roth
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Triumph
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bayern Munich may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match9 Nov 2026
30 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 8.49
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.49 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match7 Nov 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Luis Díaz
Marked 8.40 — 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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Triumph
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Lucas Vázquez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bayern Munich have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Bayern Munich right now
3 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
10 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jamal Musiala. 2‑0 against VfL Wolfsburg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Luis Díaz 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Jamal Musiala at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bayern Munich.
In brief
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The dugout
Kim Min-Jae gets it from the manager
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Squad
The month belongs to Jamal Musiala
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Triumph
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Union Berlin, and it could have been more.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Michael Olise takes the afternoon — 8.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Michael Olise provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.20, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Maximilian Mittelstädt 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 terraces26 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.65, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jamal Musiala is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.31 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
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Triumph
Match17 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.68 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Aleksandar Pavlović delivers — 7.98
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aleksandar Pavlović scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Rasmus Højlund was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.40. 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.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Rasmus Højlund 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Jamal Musiala
8 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
Losing 0‑1 is one thing; losing to Borussia Dortmund in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
With 9 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximilian Mittelstädt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Eriksen, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
After 6 games, Bayern Munich finally taste it again
The first defeat in 6 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Borussia Dortmund; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Helmut Hartmann 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.
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Triumph
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jamal Musiala. 2‑0 against Eintracht Frankfurt, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Vázquez and Bayern Munich agree another 2 years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Tah
“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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. 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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Triumph
Match26 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Jamal Musiala takes the afternoon — 8.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jamal Musiala provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match26 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Harry Kane yet — 8.31
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.31 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Jonas Urbig
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 terraces28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kim Min-Jae, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Both of them Harry Kane's — 8.41
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bayern Munich have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Bayern Munich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximilian Mittelstädt 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.46. 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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Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jamal Musiala. 2‑1 against Hamburger SV, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gregor Friedrich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Markus Seidel 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.
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Squad
Bayern Munich are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
Michael Olise linked with a move away
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Triumph
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$17.8M was the most the club would pay and Manchester United 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Bayern Munich asked and AC Milan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Tom Bischof had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Bayern Munich until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
Rasmus Højlund 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 Bayern Munich players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 10 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Raphaël Guerreiro 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleksandar Pavlović. 2‑1 against VfB Stuttgart, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Triumph
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No deal for Joan García at that price
Bayern Munich offered $54.8M; Barcelona 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 targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximilian Mittelstädt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Michael Olise was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. 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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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $51.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Napoli drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and Bayern Munich go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich have gone to Manchester United 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Rasmus Højlund would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rasmus Højlund is living that version at Bayern Munich, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from VfB Stuttgart for Tom Bischof 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Heinrich Schmidt and Bayern Munich agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$51.0M on the table at Napoli. 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 targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$36.1M 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Bayern Munich have paid $29.5M for Maximilian Mittelstädt, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich have gone to PSV 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Maximilian Mittelstädt has, at Bayern Munich, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Christian Eriksen is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Inter have kept their man, and Bayern Munich go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to VfB Stuttgart 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chelsea pay $19.6M, 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Bayern Munich have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with VfL Wolfsburg 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ismael Saibari and Bayern Munich agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Chelsea have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Konrad Laimer. The answer from Bayern Munich has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Harry Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Konrad Laimer’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sven Ulreich is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bayern Munich has been clear about where Sven Ulreich stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Ismael Saibari knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bayern Munich, and both men came out saying it was fine.