Opinion

According to English publication the Daily Mail, Chelsea could be set to bid a whopping £75million for Bayer Leverkusen’s young attacking star Kai Havertz. The Blues are already expected to seal the signing of RB Leipzig forward Timo Werner this summer.

If you go back to round 14 of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season played at the beginning of December, you will find a 2-1 defeat for Bayern Munich at the hands of Borussia Monchengladbach. It was their second defeat in succession following the 2-1 lost at home against Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich dropped to 7th place in the Bundesliga.

Just has been speculation that the deadline for Timo Werner’s release clause of £49million may go past without a club activating it.

A clause in the Barcelona contract of Lionel Messi which would have allowed the Argentine to leave on a free transfer this summer has now expired. The clause expired on 30th May.

News emerged over the weekend that both the English Premier League and EFL Championship will be back by the middle point of June.

The announcement that the English Premier League will resume in mid-June was met by joy by many fans around the world. The Premier League is regarded as being the best league on the planet, so naturally it was vital the season would concluded with all games played.

The Bundesliga continues to be the best football league in Europe for the development of talent. The new most-wanted players plying their trade in Germany are Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho and Bayer Leverkusen attacking midfielder Kai Havertz.

The German Bundesliga has been back in action for two weeks following the suspension of the league due to the outbreak of coronavirus. It is fantastic to have some high quality live football back on television and things appear to be running as smoothly as can be expected in the current environment.

On July 1st, Bournemouth winger Jordon Ibe will become a free agent after four years with the south coast club. This situation would have been unthinkable in 2016 when he joined the Cherries from Liverpool for £16million.

The German Bundesliga is the first of the major European leagues to resume action following suspension due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Some leagues, including the French Ligue 1 and Dutch Eredivisie have decided to end their season early but other leagues including the English Premier League and Spanish La Liga are still hoping to resume. So, what was it like in the Bundesliga with the new regulations in place?

First it was the Korean K-League and then it was the German Bundesliga. Now, more football leagues around the globe – mostly in Europe – are returning to action.

This weekend saw the Bundesliga return, as the first major European football league to restart during the COVID-19 pandemic. The world was watching, as the German top-flight produced a good weekend of football. Apart from a few minor breaches of rules here and there, the return was successful.

Much has been said recently about the Premier League restarting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as the German Bundesliga is on the verge of returning this weekend. However, the timescale that the league is running to may mean that time is running out for a return to season 2019/20.

It is the news every football fan has been waiting for, one of the leading European leagues is about to return following the outbreak of the coronavirus. The German Bundesliga will resume on the 16th of May but there will be some changes to how the League was operating prior to the suspension of the competition.

Last season’s K-League champions and runners-up, Jeonbuk and Ulsan, set the pace for the new campaign over the weekend both obtaining wins. The clubs experienced very different paths to the three points, but much of that was due to the opposition.

It’s fair to say that Raul Jimenez’s rise to Premier League stardom has been a slow and steady journey.

The whole football world has been brought to a standstill by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is difficult to escape the virus and talk about it.

There appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel as far as professional football is concerned. Most of the leagues around the world have been suspended due to the coronavirus but one league which is set to begin on the weekend is the South Korea K League 1.

Across Europe’s top five leagues, Ciro Immobile has scored the most goals in 2019/20. But is he Europe’s most clinical striker?

It is agreed that we are still some way off seeing the resumption of the major professional football leagues in Europe. With lockdown restrictions still in place across the likes of Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom at the time of writing, it could be another couple of months until we see the leagues return.