Talking Fussball

Will he or won't he? He's a walking fantasy bonanza and he's been out of the lineup lately...but for how long? Can you afford to sell Haaland, at least until the unlimited transfers period in the international break? Listen in as JT and Flo address this pressing issue and many more ahead of Match Day 7.

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Lots of change in the second tier. We're just eight games in and already four sides - Erzgebirge Aue, SV Sandhausen, Holstein Kiel and FC Ingolstadt - have parted ways with their coaches. Listen in as Nik WIldhagen, Jasmine Baba and Maik Krükemeier weigh in on each and attempt to diagnose what could right the ship. The gang then explain why it was that fourth-tier 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig's attempt to merge with VfB Leipzig made national news in Germany.

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The Bundesliga's twin towers, FC Bayern München and Borussia Dortmund, each stumbled into some 10-man adversity for half of a game of football, give or take. Only one managed to survive the ordeal and come away with a three-point haul. Matt and Terry get into the details of how it all went down and what we can learn from Gladbach's win (and Fürth's loss). They also pay a little tribute to SC Freiburg's Dreisamstadion, which will cease to be the club's top flight home from now on. All that and the rest of the antics from Match Day six...

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We all had ideas about who to buy going into the season. We had ideas about who to play after the first week or two. Now, with five match days in the books, we know a few things moving forward. Bayern are such a shot (and goal) machine that it makes some of their expensive players seem affordable, Cologne's Anthony Modeste is a good value pick-up, and Freiburg defenders might be worth a flutter. Listen in as JT and Flo address these topics and much more...

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After years of resistance and denial, some in football are beginning to wake up: plenty of players take performance-enhancing drugs. That has big implications for the sport, but one of the most pressing problems isn't what you think - many footballers are mis-using legal drugs to help them with pain. Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) like Ibuprofen are given out "like smarties" by football clubs and can have alarming long-term effects. Listen in as Nik Wildhagen talks to ARD doping reporter Arne Steinberg about his work and what it means for the Bundesliga...

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Round about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the Bundesliga was having a bad day. Just fifteen minutes remained in the afternoon's slate of matches, and not only had seven of the eight teams in action failed to score (snooze), but also the one team that had scored - champions for the last nine years and counting FC Bayern München - had already put six past their hapless opponents on their way to a 7-0 win. Could it be that it's true that this league is just going through the motions? Join Matt Hermann and Terry Duffelen as they wrestle with this proposition, with Dortmund's alarmingly flaky brilliance, with Jesse Marsch's future in Leipzig, and a lot more.

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With all the UEFA competitions under way, the games are coming thick and fast for more than a third of the teams in the Bundesliga. And while you might wish you could copy-and-paste Christopher Nkunku's numbers from this week's Champions League game in Manchester, it doesn't quite work that way. Listen in as JT and Flo provide you with strategies for dealing with squad rotation, lopsided match-ups (there are potentially several on MD5), and more...

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Ready to dig into some stories from the lower rungs of German football? Nik Wildhagen sits down with Jasmine Baba and Maik Krükemeier for a good hour's chat about the highest-impact transfers in the 2. Bundesliga, the unsettling persistence of SV Sandhausen, and much more from the 3 Liga, Regionalligen and more.

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It was the Saturday we'd been waiting for all week - one with not one but two mouth-watering fixtures featuring four of the Bundesliga's top teams. The first was tasty indeed - the second lacked balance. Listen in as Matt talks with his old pal Ronan Murphy about BVB's stirring victory in Leverkusen, Leipzig's surrender at home to FC Bayern, all the Bundesliga sides' prospects in Europe, and which coaches are shopping at Dan Flashes

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The subject of unlimited transfers came up in the course of our last episode - many of you are likely to have made a few moves to re-make your squads in the meantime. After you listen to JT and Flo's advice, you might need to make a few more. With two colossal clashes taking place this Saturday - Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig vs FC Bayern München - you'll really want to have your house in order before kick-off...

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