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RB Leipzig captain Willi Orban doesn't expect Bayern Munich to quickly become as dominant as they were in the past decade again after they lost this season's Bundesliga title race to Bayer Leverkusen. "I expect Bayern to continue a process. A new coach, changes to the squad - you don't solve that overnight. Bayern are always strong, but in my opinion they won't be as dominant as they have been in the past 10 years for the time being," Orban told the Sport Bild weekly. Bayern won 11 consecutive Bundesliga titles, but saw that run ended by Leverkusen. The Champions League, in which they will fac...
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RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose has said he plans contract renewal talks with the club leadership in the off-season and once the shape of the 2024-25 squad has become clearer. Leipzig-born Rose has been in charge since September 2022 and has a contract until 2025 at the Bundesliga club. "When we talk about contracts, it's important for me to know what ambitions we have, where we want to go and what the squad looks like. Do we have another big shake-up or will the team stay together?" Rose told Sky TV. Rose wants to avoid another shake-up after Leipzig lost key players including Christopher Nkunku,...
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The police have launched an investigation after unknown persons poured butyric acid into the away block of Heidenheim's stadium before their Bundesliga match against RB Leipzig, a spokesperson told dpa on Sunday. Butyric acid has a very unpleasant odour and several Leipzig fans complained on social media about the smell in the visitor's area before the kick-off. A spokesperson for Heidenheim said that the affected area was cleaned, but the bad smell remained during the match. Heidenheim coach Frank Schmidt condemned the action in the strongest possible terms. "I lack any form of understanding....
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RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose has praised the performance of Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who can claim their maiden league title at the weekend. "We don't need to beat around the bush, whether it happens this weekend or next, Leverkusen have more than earned it with an incredibly stable season," Rose said in a news conference on Friday. "They have worked hard for everything they have achieved," he added. Rose praised Leverkusen's transfer policy and the signings of Granit Xhaka, Alejandro Grimaldo and Jonas Hofmann. "They're doing great, we'd like to be that great too, we're perhaps onl...
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VfL Wolfsburg have parted ways with managing director Marcel Schäfer with immediate effect, the Bundesliga club said on Wednesday. Wolfsburg said in a statement that Schäfer informed supervisory board chairman Frank Witter of his wish to move clubs and terminate his contract. "Taking all circumstances into account, the decision was made to relieve Schäfer of his duties with immediate effect," Wolfsburg said in a statement. According to the Kicker sports magazine, Schäfer is to take the job at Bundesliga rivals RB Leipzig, but there was initially no official confirmation. Schäfer, a former Wolf...
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VfL Wolfsburg managing director Marcel Schäfer is to move to RB Leipzig, the Kicker sports magazine reported on Wednesday, three days before the Bundesliga clash between both teams. There was initially no confirmation from the clubs involved. According to the report, Wolfsburg are considering releasing Schäfer with immediate effect. The former Wolfsburg player returned to the club as sporting director in 2018 and was promoted to managing director last year. At Leipzig, meanwhile, the corresponding position has been vacant since the departure of Max Eberl in September 2023. Eberl has recently j...
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RB Leipzig hope to have Dani Olmo and Xavi Simons within their ranks beyond the season, and have made Benjamin Henrichs a lucrative contract renewal offer beyond 2025, sporting director Rouven Schröder has said. Schröder told Tuesday's edition of Kicker sports magazine that Germany full back Henrichs "knows that we want to continue with him" and that they have made him "a very appreciative offer." But Schröder also said that "both parties have agreed not to go into a final year of the contract" if no agreement is reached, meaning that Henrichs would then leave in summer. Olmo's future is also ...
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RB Leipzig have extended the contract of midfielder Amadou Haidara, the Bundesliga club said on Friday. The player signed a new deal until 2026. Haidara has been playing for Leipzig since January 2019 and has appeared in 175 competitive games so far. On Saturday, however, he will miss the Bundesliga match against Mainz due to a suspension.
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Barbi Marković won the Leipzig Book Fair prize in the fiction category on Thursday with an experimental horror comic novel, "Minihorror," that describes the everyday life of its protagonists Mini and Miki in a Mickey Mouse comic style. The author, who was born in Belgrade in 1980, was honoured for "her enchantingly funny and bitterly serious story about our present day, with people in late capitalism inevitably becoming the butt of jokes," said jury member Shirin Sojitrawalla at the award ceremony. In her acceptance speech, which Marković said she wrote in the cafeteria shortly before the awar...
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The Leipzig Book Fair opened its doors to visitors on Thursday, with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on hand to tour the halls and discuss democracy with noted German writers Ingo Schulze and Anne Rabe. The book fair in the east of the country is Germany's second-largest, after the Frankfurt Book Fair. Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave remarks on Wednesday evening at a ceremony to mark the opening of the fair, which will run through Sunday. A total of around 100 events are planned as part of the book fair, with 41 authors scheduled to join as guests, including fiction writers Marc-Uwe Kling...
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