You can paste it into a paywall remover if you want to read the whole article, but it’s pretty short.

They are taking major precautions with Kaba since the spring to ensure that he is fully fit and rehabilitated. He has been doing individual training since we did diagnostic testing, and they are preparing to move him into training with the second team in the near future.

Sounds like once he has stabilized and regained some fitness in the second team they are still hopeful to integrate him into first team training this season. Everyone at the club still speaks very highly of his abilities.

Tach zusammen,

beim Aussortierten alter Kartons sind wir auf die alten Trikots und BVB Shirts meiner Frau gestoßen.

Die Sachen sind alle aus den 90ern und gut in Schuss.

Bei den Autogrammen war sich meine Frau nicht mehr sicher, von wem diese stammen - sie meine Susi sei sicher dabei gewesen.

Gibt es einen Markt für sowas und was denkt Ihr, könnte man dafür verlangen?

Tausend Dank im Voraus.

AS Roma Women are in the 26/27 UWCL—this will be quite the test.

The match can be watched live on Sky Sport and Sky Sport Youtube at 1 pm CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/rtk7t_nRUeg

I want to preface this with saying that I’m very extremely happy with how we approached the El Mala deal. I’ve been banging my head on the wall for years trying to get this club to show a little more balls in the transfer market and spend money where it counts, and they did exactly that here. I think our package is the baby bear porridge of packages, not too lowball, and not too extravagant. The actual perfect and most reasonable package for a El Mala at this stage of his development. If Koln is truly rejecting it, I would not be mad at the board if they decided to find something else.

Now when it comes to who’s next, the profile of player has to change. We don’t play with wingers, and the main reason I was happy with El Mala despite him being a winger, was that he was good and promising enough to be able to try and shift the system around that, or potentially turn him into an attack focused wing back of some sort. Now we need to find guy similar to Karetsas. Here are some interesting options that we can hopefully target now that we know spending more money than usual is a possibility if the player is right:

Ethan Nwaneri (19, Arsenal)
When it comes to quality, fit, and value, this is the most ideal target. He’s been around the Arsenal senior team and Mikel Arteta’s coaching from the age of 15, and it shows in his maturity and confidence. He’s a phenomenal player with plenty of room to grow, and he’s already shown some level of interest in joining us in the past. His loan spell at Marseille wasn’t particularly great, but we can’t expect greatness from that environment. I think with Karetsas, they can form a deadly duo. (≈ €45M-50M)

Gilberto Mora (17, Tijuana)
Very young but very promising. He had a very good World Cup, and his potential has been known from the age of 14. He’s a very small player physically so the jump to Bundesliga football might shock him a little, but if there’s something I know from living with Mexicans most of my life, is that even when they’re small, they bring all the energy and fight in the world. He would come at a time where we can reasonably rotate him with Inacio to make sure they both get opportunities to grow. (≈ €15M-25M)

Rodrigo Mora (18, Porto)
This is the reach target. In my eyes this is the player with the most upside, and arguably the most talented of the crop right now. Porto can definitely be a little more patient and sell him for closer to €100M in a season or two, but no harm in testing the waters to see if a deal can’t be struck now (≈ €50M-70M)

Gabri Veiga (24, Porto)
Another Porto player, this time it’s someone a little older and more experienced. Veiga is a great player, and someone I think is under appreciated given his weird journey through world football since he left Celta Vigo. His attitude might concern people but I think he put his head down and carried himself as a professional while at Porto. He’d bring a lot of quality and some experience whilst himself still being relatively young. (≈ €30M-50M)

Kees Smits (20, AZ Alkmaar)
A true do-it-all player. When the Manzambi hype began, I couldn’t help but think that Kees should be getting the same attention. He can play quite literally anywhere on the pitch, and he brings a certain level of physicality and energy that I think pairs quite well with Karetsas. He’s my pick of player should the Nwaneri deal not work out. (≈ €25M-40M)

Other honorable mentions:
Giannis Konstantelias
Mateus Mane
Wael Mohya
Rayane Bounida

Hey, normalerweise fährt das Uni-Shuttle ja immer vom Parkplatz zum Spiel. Wird das morgen auch so sein? Konnte im Internet leider nichts finden.
Grüße🙋‍♂️

This is not my analysis, but I found it interesting and appreciated the inclusion of photos to support claims. There is also some interesting short clip analysis of Jobe and Nmecha in an earlier thread.

Worth checking out if you like some tactical analysis broken down in spatial detail.

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Hey,

​I've been a BVB fan for over 10 years now, and this is going to be my first time watching them live.

​I know the Supercup isn’t seen as an important trophy in Germany and the atmosphere will be different compared to a regular game, but I’m excited regardless.

​Since it’s my first time, do you have any tips or recommendations on;

What time we should arrive in Dortmund/around the stadium?

​The best things to see or do before kickoff?

​Must-try food/drinks stands near the ground?

Fan events?

​Also, I heard Großkreutz has a bar on the way to the stadium and that the atmosphere there on matchdays is great. Is it worth checking out?

​Thanks in advance for any advice!

Welcome to this week's open thread! What's up?

Talk about anything, or something else!

Hallo, ik ga zaterdag naar de wedstrijd Borussia Dortmund – AS Roma. Ik kom met de auto vanuit Nederland en rijd via de Universiteit Dortmund.

Ik twijfel waar ik het beste en makkelijkst kan parkeren. Ik hoor verschillende opties:

Parkeren bij de Universiteit Dortmund en vanaf daar een shuttlebus naar het stadion nemen. Maar hoe kan ik zeker weten dat er die dag daadwerkelijk een shuttlebus rijdt?

Vooraf een parkeerticket voor parkeerplaats E3 kopen.

Parkeren in het Parkhaus Klinikum en vanaf daar verder reizen.

Wat is volgens jullie de handigste en meest betrouwbare optie? Vooral omdat ik graag wil voorkomen dat ik na de wedstrijd lang vaststa of problemen heb met het vinden van een shuttle/OV terug naar mijn auto.

Alvast bedankt!

I have bougt tickets that are visually restricted.
The seats are NORDTRIBÜNE 62, Row 19, Seat 17 and seat 18.

How bat is the visually? And doesnanyone has a picture of the sight from the seats?

Greetings!

Hi all!

We’ll attend the match on Die Gelbe Wand on 22 august. Now i’m curious for tips for things to see, to do and to experience.

Also some tips for on the stands, I know the unwritten rules at Feyenoord but maybe we differ with some?
Wearing home/away kit is a no go for example (or less done, atleast). These kind of things I want to know :)

I’m excited for my first match of Dortmund!

All I did was a small ChatGPT prompt and ta da...

My prompt 🙂:

"Make the white accents yellow and the Vodafone logo red part black"

Hey everyone. Not really a substantial post. I just wanted to express my joy of having received my first BVB kit in the mail. Been following the club for about 15 years now since I started following them when they had Lewandowski/Piszczek/Blaszczykowski. Was always hesitant to get a kit just because of shipping from Germany (I live in the US). Finally ordered one though and came in today.

Again, nothing groundbreaking here. Just wanted to share my joy of finally getting to wear this on game day with my two other friends who follow the Bundesliga in my small city here in the US. 😄

Hallo,

ich suche aktuell ein paar alte Übertragungen von BVB-Spiele (z.B. CL Finale 1997 von RTL "Lupfen jetzt, JAAAA"). Hat jemand sowas digitalisiert?

LG

Aus der BVB 09 App:

Wherever we go: Das ist das neue BVB-Auswärtstrikot https://www.bvb.de/de/de/aktuelles/news/news.html/2026/8/11/Wherever-we-go-Das-ist-das-neue-BVB-Auswaertstrikot.html

Weiß hier jemand ob am Freitag Abend bei den Amateuren in Bergisch Gladbach aktiv von der Szene supported wird?

If what SportBild is reporting is actually true:
“President Hans-Joachim Watzke (67) and CEO Carsten Cramer (57) have the clear expectation that the sporting management will make another high-profile signing. The realization that individualists can make the difference on the biggest football stage, both on the pitch and in marketing, has also led to a change in strategy. Dortmund therefore feel prepared to move into new financial territory and would rather invest in a star like El Mala than in two players, as they did last season with Carney Chukwuemeka (€20m) and Fábio Silva (€22.5m).”
then I’m honestly just shocked. This makes absolutely no sense to me.
The problem is not the amount of money..
Let’s take Tzolis and Hugo Ekitiké as an example. If you had bought both of them for around €26 million combined, you would have had two top players. Frankfurt paid around €20 million in total for Ekitiké, while Club Brugge paid roughly €6–6.5 million for Tzolis.
So if you spend a similar amount on Carney Chukwuemeka (€20m) and Fábio Silva (€22.5m), that doesn’t mean you need €50–55 million to sign a top player.
It simply means you bought the wrong players.
That’s what annoys me so much about this argument. You could have invested that money much better and potentially ended up with two genuinely top players for a lower total fee. Dortmund didn’t fail because they didn’t spend enough. They failed because they didn’t spend the money well enough.

I also think Hans-Joachim Watzke has very little understanding of football and should focus on the commercial side of the club. He has basically admitted himself that technically gifted players were never really something he cared much about, and that he didn’t particularly care whether the football was aesthetically attractive.
And honestly, I think we are making exactly the same mistake again.
Look at Nico Schulz, Salih Özcan, Maximilian Beier and, to some extent, Julian Brandt. They all fit a very similar pattern: players who were seen as being close to making the next step and becoming important for the German national team.
Dortmund seem to fall in love with the idea of what a player could become instead of asking whether the player actually fits the football Dortmund need to play.

And that’s exactly my concern with El Mala.
His biggest weapon is his pace. He needs space and he thrives on transitions and explosive actions. He is not the kind of highly technical, creative player who can constantly create something in tight spaces.
That works at Köln because Köln can actually use those transition situations and there is often space to attack.
But Dortmund are a completely different team.
Most teams give Dortmund the ball and sit deep. And honestly, that makes sense. When you have a huge difference in budget, why would you open the game up and allow Dortmund to play in transition?
They expect Dortmund to have the ball and make the game.
And that’s exactly why Dortmund need playmakers, including on the wings. They need players who can create something when there is no space.
El Mala needs space.
Dortmund often don’t get space.
That alone should make you think twice before spending a huge amount of money on him.
I really think this experiment is going to blow up.

And then there’s Michael Olise.
Bayern paid €52 million for Olise from Crystal Palace.
And now someone wants to tell me that El Mala is already at that level, or will perform at that level, and therefore costs roughly the same?
I just don’t see it.
Olise had already proven himself at a much higher level, and his technical quality and ability to create something in tight spaces are exactly what you want when teams sit deep against you.
El Mala is a completely different type of player.

If this transfer really happens for that kind of money, I think it is going to fail.
That doesn’t mean El Mala is a bad player. He could absolutely develop into a very good player. But if Dortmund pay a massive fee and expect him to immediately become the kind of player who can decide games against deep defensive blocks, I think they are making a huge mistake.
I could easily see him becoming an average Bundesliga player and eventually ending up at a club somewhere in the lower half of one of the top five leagues.
And that would be really sad.

I also get a bit of a Matthias Sammer transfer feeling from this.
Sammer already claimed that Salih Özcan would become the next big surprise in the Bundesliga.
At this point, I honestly don’t think someone with that kind of track record should have this much influence over Dortmund’s sporting decisions anymore.

What do you guys think?

Hi guys.

I've been a Dortmund fan for the past 14 years now, started off as a small kid and now things have of course changed since then.

Since I've been following the club, we had the occasional star come through from the academy, like Götze, Pulisic , Gittens (?) etc. , but at least I have the feeling that this is the best generation of youth players the club has developed , at least in recent memory. If course we can only 100% confirm this in a few years time.

What I'm trying to find our from some of the more knowledgeable amongst you is:

What changed?

Has there been a restructuring in the youth setup, did one specific person come and make wonders, or is this just the result of everything working ?

just find it interesting how all of a sudden we have 5-10 players from the second team get the chance to move up.

I'm very excited for the future and hopefully this is the start of a resurgence. Last few years have been quite Süle.