Little did anyone know, however, that there a brewing schism in the club’s front office that would see CEO Oliver Kahn and sporting director Hasan “Brazzo” Salihamidžić fired, Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on the supervisory board and tasked with fixing the club’s woes, and manager Thomas Tuchel on the verge of having a whole lot more say in personnel matters.

RasenBallsport Leipzig: Herzog – Krug (69. Schmid), Magerl, Pollak (46. Räcke), Müller – Andrade (89. Dittrich), Starke, Joly, Croatto (77. Z. Werner) – Schimmer (69. Hoffmann), Fudalla 

A house in Manchester has ‘already been secured’ for the centre-back, who will ‘fly to’ England to complete his move to United at the earliest available opportunity.

Former Bayern technical director Michael Reschke weighed in recently, tipping Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool side as the favorites to land the former Ajax defender.

“Audio-descriptive live reporting is a key component in creating more participation and inclusion in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 stadiums,” says Thomas Schneider, head of fan affairs at the DFL (German Football League). ’This allows visually impaired and blind fans to experience a game up close. To do this, they need good, professional guidance from the reporters, who are mostly volunteers, as well as the important exchange of ideas, in which they can learn from each other and develop further. Everyone benefits from the meeting in Sinsheim – the match reporters and the fans, who can follow the expert coverage in the stadium on every matchday.”

And on Saturday he further added that ‘Arsenal are one of the two English clubs informed on Sacha Boey deal — as they explore options for RB position’.

Interestingly, the report also touched on the uncertainty that exists for club technical director Marco Neppe, who does not know what the future holds for him as well:

, but could not avoid playing his greatest hits.

Elvis Rexhbecaj experienced a proud moment during his nation’s 3-0 defeat to Romania. The 25-year-old made his debut for the Kosovo national team and even played the full 90 minutes.

“Declan Rice is not going to Bayern Munich. He’s going to go to one of the big clubs in England to try and win the Premier League with an English club,” Jordan said (as captured by Football Fancast). “He’s got no reason to go to Bayern Munich, it’s fantastic indexing and a great bit of leverage for other football clubs in England to get their act together to pay the price that West Ham may well want, but I’ll be absolutely gobsmacked if an established England player, who is perceived to be one of the best players in his position, will be out of the Premier League playing in Germany, in a league that’s particularly dominated by one football club.”