Bundesliga

    Vincent Kompany has been chosen as next Bayern Munich coach but details on a contract still need to be ironed out, club supervisory board member Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Tuesday. According to German tabloid Bild and English newspaper The Guardian, the 38-year-old Belgian has reached an agreement in principle with Bayern despite overseeing Burnley's relegation from the Premier League last term. Rummenigge told Sky Italia there are just a […]

    Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria striker Victor Boniface said Xabi Alonso has a particular advantage over other coaches on the training pitch. "Imagine you're training and your coach is doing better than you," Boniface told AFP in an interview. "Then you want to step up your game. "For him to be involved in training gives us a boost," Boniface said of Alonso, who "has won everything that can be […]

    Hosting Werder Bremen on Sunday just one win away from a first Bundesliga title, Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen have their sights set on something even bigger: invincibility. With 24 wins and four draws in the league this season, Leverkusen are on the cusp of going through a Bundesliga season undefeated. Not even the mighty Bayern Munich, who have 33 German titles, have managed an unbeaten season in the […]

  Fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund host Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday hoping to keep their noses in front in their battle to finish in the Champions League placings. Dortmund sit one point ahead of fifth-placed RB Leipzig, having been six points behind the Saxons at Christmas. Dortmund are a club heavily dependent on the income the Champions League brings, and have only missed the top four once in the past 13 years. […]

  Bayern Munich's home clash with Lazio in the Champions League on Tuesday offers coach Thomas Tuchel a chance to help salvage his reputation as he makes his way out of the club. Mired in mid-table in Serie A, Lazio -- who had three players sent off in Friday's loss to Milan -- are also under pressure, but take a 1-0 first-leg lead in the last 16 tie to the […]

  Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel said winning this season's Bundesliga title was "not so realistic right now" after a loss on Sunday which left Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen eight points clear at the top. The 3-2 defeat at lowly Bochum was Bayern's third reverse in a row, after a 3-0 thumping by Alonso's league leaders last weekend and a 1-0 midweek loss at Lazio in the Champions League. The […]

  Former Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller said Sunday he backed coach Xabi Alonso to stay beyond the summer amid links to Liverpool and Bayern Munich. Taking over with the club near the foot of the table last season, Alonso has supercharged Leverkusen, who are eight points clear atop the Bundesliga table and on track for a first-ever league title. Alonso's Leverkusen are unbeaten in 32 games in all […]

  Bayern Munich were forced to deny on Monday that their coach Thomas Tuchel had talked about the Barcelona coaching job that Xavi Hernandez is vacating at the end of the season. Xavi's announcement on Sunday that he will leave Barcelona at the end of the season has sparked a flurry of speculation about his possible successor. At a Bayern fan club event later on Sunday, former Chelsea manager Tuchel […]