The German Bundesliga much like other European leagues returned to action with Week 5 of exciting action. Hamburg continued its unbeaten start with another offensive explosion with a 3-1 home win over Stuttgart. Mladen Petric, Eljero Elia, Zé Roberto each scored their 2nd goals of the season. Click to continue reading...

It's not the busiest of Sundays in regards to transfer gossip, but there's a number of juicy tidbits to discuss in today's transfer roundup.

And after you check out today's roundup, make sure to keep up with all of the latest confirmed signings with the updated summer transfer lists.

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Christophe Daum pulled off the biggest surprise of the early silly season, by quitting Cologne to return to Turkey via Fenerbahce. I would love to hear Jan's input on this, but my take is that it could be a sucker punch for the Billy Goats as they face the sophomore curse. Daum had a somewhat iconic air at Colgne.

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Hoffenheim's coach Ralf Rangnick isn't nicknamed The Professor for nothing and this is his latest creation: a combined striker/goalkeeper. With his fetish for "polyvalent" players, Hertha's coach Lucien Favre must be green with envy. Anyone got an idea for a name for this beast? Click to continue reading...

Bayer Leverkusen returned to form and dismantled league leaders Hoffenheim in front of 30,000 at the Rhein-Neckar Arena. Scoring two minutes into the match set them up for an inspired first half and scoring again one minute into the second half sealed the three points for die Werkself. Hoffenheim struggled to find defensive [. Click to continue reading...

Jaroslav Drobny (HBS) 13 saves! This is what it takes to stop Bayer. Fantastic effort by the Czech puts him above Lehmann and Rost, who were both impressive as well. Pedro Geromel (Köln) This is the second straight week for Brazilian. He had a fantastic game neutralizing Rob Freund and he had a goal-line clearance [. Click to continue reading...