Talking Fussball

Lord give me unlimited transfers...but not just yet. The Official Fantasy Bundesliga gods are nearly ready to smile on us with a true open season on transfers, but there's no reason to wait until then to fix your team, starting with the defense.

Listen in as JT and Flo offer up cures for what ails your team - listen in.

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What a difference a few days can make. Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen, and especially Borussia Mönchengladbach underperformed in European action this past week...but on Match Day 5 all three got good results.

Matt talks with Matthew Marshall, who saw all these teams in the past few days, about where they're headed and what will seal their success or failure in Europe this season. They also address RB Leipzig's title tilt, Hertha's overdue (and ugly) first win, and much more.

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A string of Bundesliga sides were in action in the UEFA Champions (and Europa) League this week. With players in need of a rest, is that going to foul up your fantasy team?

JT and Flo are here to dig into that subject and many more ahead of Match Day five. Listen in and score big.

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Bam! bam! bam! bam! That's four bams, and it could have been more at the Westfalenstadion as Dortmund made Leverkusen (and Kai Havertz of all people) look pretty ordinary in a 4-0 win. Matt Hermann and Terry Duffelen talk over BVB's win, the highly entertaining Leipzig-Bayern draw on Saturday night, and many other story lines in the Bundesliga. Are Freiburg for real good? Are Hertha for real bad? And how do the particular circumstances surrounding a random touchline call challenge VAR? Listen in.

Match Day 4 in the Bundesliga brings two absolutely massive fixtures: First, Borussia Dortmund host Bayer Leverkusen, and later that day Bayern Munich travel to Leipzig to take on Rasenballsport. 

Since those teams are full of expensive players not every fantasy manager can afford, where's the real value in each of those games? JT and Flo have the answer to that question...and many more!

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We've got something special for you all today - a look behind the Patreon curtain!

Here's an episode of Talking Fussball Extra, Nik Wildhagen and Terry Duffelen's podcast that takes a wider view of the German football scene and appears every few weeks on our Patreon feed.

This week they dig into some of the thorniest issues facing football in Germany and elsewhere. What do the fates of English clubs Bury and Bolton mean for the future of football finance in Germany? How much pressure is the sustained success of the Bundesliga's "plastic" clubs (RB Leipzig, Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg, Leverkusen) putting on the rest of the league to "modernize" their financial models? And how do clubs in areas with high support for far-right parties keep their supporters groups from becoming megaphones for hate?

Nik and Terry nab one of the best possible guests on these topics: Felix Tamsut of Deutsche Welle, a leading voice in international coverage of German Football fan culture. Listen in as this thoughtful trio deliver a must-listen episode.

If you like it, head on over to our Patreon page and sign up!

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Not many wanted it, but it's come to this: RB Leipzig are on top of the Bundesliga, and deservedly so. Timo Werner and co. blasted past Gladbach on MD3, while Dortmund were cut down at the alte Försterei by Union Berlin. Matt rounds up Axel Falk (Svenskafans, Get German Football News) to talk about the changes at the top, German teams' draws in the UEFA Champions League, Axel's beloved Eintracht Frankfurt and more...

There may well be fireworks incoming on Friday night when two teams in European competition, Borussia Mönchengladbach and RB Leipzig, square off. You'll tune in - but should you go all in on your fantasy team?

JT and Flo answer that query (among many others) to get you sorted out ahead of MD3.

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Just two games in, it's early days in the Bundesliga - but the present pecking order is interesting enough to get our gears turning.

Matt rounds up Kit Holden of AFP for a discussion of which among the five teams with a 100% record so far will be up front in the first class carriage for the duration, and which will be back with the hoi polloi. They also talk Timo Werner's contract extension, Dortmund's depth, and the latest round of VAR frustration.

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After a wild and wooly opening weekend, JT and Flo have plenty of thoughts. Should you try and squeeze big MD1 scorers like Marcel Sabitzer and Zack Steffen into your team? Are you wondering how to replace Milot Rashica? And is Robert Lewandowski still a must-have? Listen in and find out...

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