Talking Fussball

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 clu...

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, Dortm...

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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Bundesliga is finally under way...and already there's so much to talk about! Matt gets Marie Schulte-Bockum of Focus Online on the line for a chat about: Bayern's stutter-start against a lively Hertha; BVB's 5-1 throttling of a poor Augsburg side; RasenBallsport's raining on Union Berlin's (already quite rainy) opening day parade; how Gladbach and her beloved Schalke looked under new managemen...

The 2019-20 Bundesliga season is nearly here, so it's high time to make a few bold statements drawn from the crystal ball. Matt and Ronan Murphy (goal.com) talked an hour's worth of fussball and served up lots of prognostications to gloat over (or embarrass themselves with) come May. According to one of them, we'll have a new meister this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...

Look out folks - cuz this one's BIG. JT and Flo are back for what might be the most important Talking Fussball Fantasy episode of the year - the season preview, where our two hosts help you get your team in order for Match Day 1. Among the questions you'll see answered in the first 10 minutes of a 70+ minute show: How many players should pick up? How much should you spend on goalkeepers? Is a supe...

We're back! Now that Bundesliga sides have concluded their pre-season tours of the US and their sleep-away camps in Austria, it was simply time to start taking the season to come a bit more seriously. And the first step down that path is to take the SERIOUS title that is the DFL Supercup EVER SO SERIOUSLY. So here Matt and Terry are, counting the takeaways from FC Bayern München's earth-shattering...