Stefan Bienkowski
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UK Lead Content Manager for @Transfermarkt . I also cover the Bundesliga for @Telegraph and others. 📺 @SonySportsnetwk 📻 @Gegenpress_Pod
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Ralf Rangnick has turned down the Bayern Munich job. The third head coach to do so this year, after Julian Nagelsmann and Xabi Alonso.
In this week's newsletter, I explain why the German giants are in all sorts of bother and may not be all that appealing right now...
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It would be very Dortmund to win the one Der Klassiker that didn’t matter.
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Do Real Madrid just keep Valverde in a glass cage and break him out for El Clasicos and the Champiosn League? That kid is amazing.
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Greek sports newspaper Sportime are reporting that Dortmund striker Erling Haaland spent €500k in six hours at a restaurant on the island of Mykonos and ended up leaving a €30k tip for the staff.
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Is Ansgar Knauff now the Borussia Dortmund player with the most European trophies?
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Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil is on the verge of signing for Fenerbahce, according to Sport1.
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Eintracht Frankfurt v Rangers feels like a proper European final.
It’s just a shame that it’s being played at a stadium with just 43,000 seats. They could have filled that four times over with those fan bases.
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The sad fact is that had any player scored 41 goals in 29 league games in La Liga or the Premier League there wouldn’t have even been a debate over who deserved the Ballon D’Or.
Lewandowski may not have won but this was, in truth, a massive defeat for the Bundesliga.
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Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has told Sport1 that one of the big reasons Jadon Sancho wanted to move to Man Utd was because of a "lack of acceptance in the English national team" of his achievements in the Bundesliga.
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Over the last three seasons Steven Gerrard has lost just six of his 45 games in Europe with Rangers. A truly remarkable achievement for the manager of any Scottish side in the modern era.
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Robert Lewandowski says he wants to leave Bayern Munich (for Barcelona) because he wants to feel more emotions.
And it’s actually quite hard to argue with that point:
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That's that cleared up then 😂
...I think they forgot the main courses🤡🤦🏼♂️ Fake news
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Scottish football bids farewell to Shane Duffy and eagerly awaits the next English football star that thinks he'll be able to stroll the Scottish Premiership.
The list of names grows every year...
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Every single person in Shawlands when the sun comes out for 10 minutes:
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Fun fact: 73% of Bayern Munich's summer transfer budget went into rebuilding Thomas Müller's childhood bedroom for his new contract announcement.
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Rumour mill: OMG WHERE AND WHEN WILL ZIDANE TAKE ON HIS NEXT MANAGERIAL JOB?!
Real life:
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Steven Gerrard's Rangers side have won more coefficient points in Europe for Scottish football in three seasons (41.5) than Celtic did under Brendan Rodgers in three seasons (34.5).
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Robert Lewandowski has cancelled his sponsorship deal with Huawei after the Chinese company were reportedly offering support and training to Russian hackers in the invasion of Ukraine.
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Let's get one thing straight:
Robert Lewandowski was the best player in the world last season and deserves the Ballon d'Or
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Just imagine the grief the Bundesliga would be getting if Bayern Munich signed a domestic rival’s star striker for €75 million 🙄
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Erling Haaland is now averaging 1.89 goals per 90 in the Premier League.
That’s a 69% increase on his goal scoring record in the Bundesliga.
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Borussia Dortmund's chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke has confirmed that his club and Bayern Munich are still pushing for Champions League reform and will NOT be joining the Super League.
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Leroy Sane's record for club and country since he switched to the left wing five games into the season:
• 8 games
• 7 assists
• 5 goals
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Heard your league doesn’t have a title race.
Feel bad for you.
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Comfortably the most impressive performance during matchday 28 of the Bundesliga:
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Only one club has reached more Champions League finals than Bayern Munich in the last 15 years (Real Madrid).
Twice as many as Man City/Chelsea, three more than Man Utd or Tottenham. Forget goalscoring records. Forget Bundesliga titles. That's why Harry Kane wants to join.
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Robert Lewandowski now has 76 goals and 27 assists in 98 Champions League games. Obscene.
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Erling Haaland is currently averaging 1.65 goal per 90 in the Premier League. That’s a 59% increase on his strike rate in the Bundesliga.
Premier League tax.
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As ever, Karneval approaching current trends and political moments with such nuance and subtlety.
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I've got no idea how it will work out, but ~€60m for Noussair Mazraoui, Ryan Gravenberch and Sadio Mané is 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 business from Bayern Munich.
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Alfredo Morelos has more goals in this season's Europa League than Basel, Arsenal and Roma.
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Since joining Bayern Munich, Robert Lewandowski has averaged a goal every 97 minutes in the Champions League.
For context: Lionel Messi's record at Barca was a goal every 102 minutes.
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The Ballon d'Or is such a needless award but it still impacts on a player's legacy to such a degree that it makes it worth... something.
It shouldn't matter to a player like Lewandowski but in a career in which he's been overshadowed by Messi and Ronaldo, it definitely does.
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Liverpool buying out Ibrahima Konate's €40m release clause seems a bit extreme if Ozan Kabak is finally settling into the team and could probably be signed for half that.
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Looks like the German farmers league™️ could end up having four clubs in the last 16 of the Champions League.
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This video is all the proof you’ll ever need that broadcasting the live conversations between the referee and their team in-game would be an EXCELLENT addition to televised football:
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[Thread] A really interesting story in Sport-Bild about how the Bundesliga is going head-to-head with the ECA over proposed changes to the FFP rules, which would come into effect in 2022/23.
The German clubs are demanding much stricter rules than the ones being considerd.
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The last player to leave the Allianz Arena pitch last night:
Manuel Neuer saying thank you to the fans.
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Kyle Walker: £50m
Jerome Boateng + Mats Hummels + David Alaba + Joshua Kimmich: £48.58m
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World Cup - fucked
Euros - fucked
Champions League - give it a few years.
Go support your local team and never turn the TV on again.
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Bayern Munich are averaging more goals in the Champions League (4.25) than they are in domestic competitions (4.08) and conceding fewer goals in Europe (0.5) than they are in domestic competitions (1.23).
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Erling Haaland in this Dortmund team every, single week:
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Give me a Croatia v Morocco final. Couldn’t care less if these sides are defensive or boring.
I want history. I want upsets. I want grown men crying because they’ve achieved the impossible.
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The Premier League has been slowly morphing into the Bundesliga ever since Guardiola - and, more importantly, a bottomless pit of money - arrived at Man City. Salah ditching Liverpool for their main rivals would only confirm it.
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Griezmann is like Pogba, Kante and Benzema wrapped into one at this tournament. Dragging France to the final.
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Which, frankly, is extremely damning of England manager Gareth Southgate.
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Kingsley Coman is such a valuable player for this Bayern team. He can dance down the wing like the best of them, but he's also always tracking back and helping out in defence too. The perfect wing-back.
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Livingston will make more money from selling Lyndon Dykes than Aberdeen made from Graeme Shinnie, Gary Mackay-Steven, Stevie May, Jonny Hayes, Kenny McLean, Niall McGinn, Peter Pawlett and Lawrence Shankland combined.
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So… Bayern have won their tenth Bundesliga title.
What does that mean for the Bundesliga and are Bayern completely unstoppable? I’ll try and answer that in this thread.
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The most baffling thing about Hansi Flick’s Germany is that he gave up an all-conquering Bayern Munich to inflict this upon himself.
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Andy Robertson ✔️
Kieran Tierney ✔️
Aaron Hickey ✔️
Nathan Patterson ✔️
Scotland: The land of W̶h̶i̶s̶k̶y̶ ̶a̶n��d̶ ̶t̶a̶r̶t̶a̶n̶ ̶ top-class full backs
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Just a quick reminder that Bayern Munich had won every single game with a collective goal difference of +20 in the Champions League so far this season when they decided to sack Julian Nagelsmann.
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Whoever came up with the idea to remove away goals in the Champions League was a genius.
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Mazraoui
Gravenberch
Mané
+ De Ligt
Bayern haven’t just made some minor changes to their team. This is a completely squad rebuild.
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Robert Lewandowski (reportedly) wanting to leave Bayern Munich is the equivalent of a tectonic plate shifting in the Bundesliga.
Bayern Munich aren't a top tier side without him. And they simply can't afford a player of his quality as a replacement.
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Everyone in Scotland when Shaun Maloney showed up on the screen there 😂
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Leroy Sane now has four goals and seven assists in his first 10 games of the season for Bayern Munich. He's back.
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The only genuine competition Bayern Munich have faced in the Bundesliga this season has come from positive COVID tests.
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Christopher Nkunku now has 19 goals and 13 assists in 31 games for RB Leipzig this season.
Which is, undoubtedly, absolutely nuts.
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If you haven’t been following the Bundesliga at all this season, here is a quick summary of how it currently stands:
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Kieran Tierney is the youngest Scotland captain since Darren Fletcher on May 27, 2004.
Fletcher capped at the age of 20 yrs & 5 months. Tierney 20 yrs & 6 months.
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For the first time in 4,028 days, the champions of the Bundesliga aren’t Bayern Munich.
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Bayern Munich have now scored 33 goals in their first nine Bundesliga games of the season. Averaging 3.67 goals per game.
A worrying stat, if not for the fact that their average in the Champions League this season is 4 goals per game.
Bayern just look unstoppable.
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Julian Nagelsmann dressed for the occasion, if the occasion was a musical in an American high school…
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Sometimes you forget Scotland is the best country in the world and then stuff like this happens:
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So far this summer the Bundesliga (as a whole) has made a profit of £39,448,637 from the transfer market.
The Premier League has made a loss of £303,376,500.
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Carlo Ancelotti has already dropped more points this season (15) than Pep Guardiola did throughout his entire first Bundesliga campaign(12).
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I've been told that Patrik Schick's new contract with Bayer Leverkusen does NOT include a release clause.
So the striker will remain at the Bundesliga side until 2027 unless someone offers what one source called an "outrageous amount" for him.
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Man City have more squad depth than the entire Bundesliga
The lack of squad depth cost us at the end. You can’t win UCLs with 37 year old as back up DM and no striker.
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So far the combined 18 clubs of the Bundesliga have spent €46.1m on players in the January transfer window.
Which is less than what Barcelona have paid for Ferran Torres.
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Where Robert Lewandowski has placed all of his 46 goals for Bayern Munich this season.
Looked how many have been tucked into each bottom corner 🤯
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Points won in the last 10 Bundesliga games:
Bayern - 21
Frankfurt - 21
RB Leipzig - 20
Wolfsburg - 18
Freiburg - 18
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Lothar Matthäus on Dortmund's season:
"... You have to say that it is not satisfactory, it is cruel. When I then read excuses about Bayern paying so much more in wages, I would like to know how much more Dortmund pay in wages compared to Ajax, Rangers or St. Pauli." [Sky]
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Here's a sentence that sums up modern football:
Manchester City's opponents in the Champions League final have spent less money on transfer fees in the past five seasons than Brighton.
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If I had to sum up Bayern Munich’s transfer window with one image:
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Most season tickets sold by Bundesliga clubs this summer, according to Kicker:
1. Dortmund - 55k
2. Bayern - 38k
3. Frankfurt - 35k
4. Stuttgart - 33.2k
5. RB Leipzig - 32k
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Stefan Effenberg on Robert Lewandowski's contract at Bayern Munich expiring in 2023 and no news of a new deal in the works:
"If Bayern don't try to extend the contract, it will be the worst decision in the club's history." [t-online]
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Leroy Sane getting plenty of (deserved) praise for his recuperation at Bayern, but it’s meant Serge Gnabry has kinda flown under the radar this season. He’s been amazing.
Currently averaging 1.21 goals or assists per 90 this season.
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This is probably the best way I can explain the significance of Niklas Süle leave Bayern Munich for Borussia Dortmund:
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Also, two clubs that will absolutely over the moon about reaching the final. Forget your Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelseas of recent years. This will mean something to every single fans of Frankfurt and Rangers.
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Borussia Dortmund have announced that they expect to make a loss of €75 million for the 2020/21 financial year.
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Leverkusen lost 5-1 to Bayern Munich and this was still the most uncomfortable thing to watch on
@Bundesliga_EN
this weekend:
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From next season Borussia Dortmund season ticket holders will be able to use their matchday ticket for free train travel throughout the entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Distance wise that's like an Arsenal fan getting a train from Manchester to London for free.
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Premier League: Pep Guardiola moaning about working class football fans and small clubs existing
Bundesliga:
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RB Leipzig technical director Christopher Vivell - who signed Erling Haaland for RB Salzburg - doesn’t think €175m is too much for Chelsea to pay for the striker:
“If you can secure him now and pay that much for him, you're not making a mistake because he's still so young.”
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Kinda bonkers for Leroy Sane to be sitting at the half-way point of this season on 22 goals and assists in 26 games for Bayern Munich... just five months after starting just one game for Germany at Euro 2020.
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12 points from their first six league games means this is Bayern Munich's poorest start to a Bundesliga season since 2010/11.
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Here's what I've been told: Manchester City contacted RB Leipzig about the availability of Josko Gvardiol last week. A transfer fee was discussed.
But the English champions have NOT made an official bid for the defender, despite new reports to the contrary.
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The most baffling thing about this Lewandowski fiasco is that Bayern MUST have known this was coming. No contract offer. No negotiations. Did they just think they could ignore it until June and hope the player would fall at their feet and beg for a new contract?
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Xavi clearly hasn’t watched Bayer Leverkusen recently 👀
Xavi had high praise for his young superstar.
Where does Pedri rank among world football's elite?
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If only the Bundesliga was as evenly contested as the Greatest League in the World ™️…
Can’t believe we all had to watch this and pretend it’s a real football competition for those few weeks back in 2020
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Fair play to Gregor Kobel. Has come out to speak to the media after what was probably his worst nightmare. Shows a lot of courage.
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