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Manchester United and Bayern Munich are both mulling moves for Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, according to reports in Italy.

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Manchester United have been watching German goalkeeper Rene Adler.

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Coming off the international break, the Bundesliga has two massive clashes at the top of the table. The warm-up match occurs Saturday at 9:30 am Eastern when Werder Bremen hosts Hoffenheim in a 4 v 5 battle from the Weser-Stadion. The main event...
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Two of the top European 2010 World Cup qualifyers being played this weekend are the Russia vs Germany match and the Portugal vs Hungary Match.

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The clash between Russia and Germany at the Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday is probably the match of the weekend, with both sides desperate to secure the top spot in their group and avoid having to go to a play-off for a place in South Africa.

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Das wichtige WM Qualispiel gegen Russland steht vor der Tür und eines ist so sicher wie das Amen in der Kirche die unumgängliche Torhüterfrage. Alle reden sie von Adler, Enke, Wiese und Neuer. Aber was ist mit Hans-Jörg Butt, dem alten Haudegen, der sich zur Zeit einen Stammplatz bei den Bayern erkämpft hat und Michael Rensing ausgestochen hat?

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Sunday's match between Bayer Leverkusen and Werder Bremen ended in a scoreless draw, but the sell-out crowd of 30,200 the first sell out for Bayer's newly expanded BayArena still went home happy thanks to a belly full of free food and beer.

The complimentary grub and happy juice wasn't some goodwill gesture from the club, though this is the serious business of football, after all no, it was the result of the club's brand new electronic payment system crapping out just before game time.

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Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Carlos Tevez, and Emmanuel Adebayor! Such is the caliber of each of these players that their involvement in this summer's transfer market has left no spotlight for the lesser-known talent. Such is the nature of the market right now that none of the European giants can be bothered with a move for the hidden gems.

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Rene Adler and Tranquillo Barnetta show off Leverkusen's new Adidas away kit, which boasts a white, yellow and red McDonald's-style colour scheme. That wouldn't normally be a good thing, but I think this kit gets away with it. Another...

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One of the Bundesliga's funner 4-4-2's.

GOALKEEPER
Rene Adler
Near Elder (if word about his back is true)

DEFENDERS
Paul Stalteri
Ultra Pilates (perhaps, but what about Ultra defending?)

Michael Gravgaard
Alarm!

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Following a busy season, Rafael Honigstein of The Guardian and Footbo was kind enough to talk with me and address a few questions I had about the end of the season and the start to the silly season.

Which player(s) surprised you the most this season?Â

a) Misimovic.

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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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Finally Dusseldorf has come good for visiting dignitaries Bayer Leverkusen. After a poor run of form in the league at the LDU, the Werkself took apart Bayern Munich 4-2 in their temporary home to gain passage to the final four of the DFB Pokal. Klinsmann tinkered with his lineup a bit as [...] Click to continue reading...

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...

What a teammate. Or former teammate. Since Jogi Low wouldn't give Jens Lehmann his international swan song - deeming the fixture too important for team experience purposes, which is quite reasonable - Rene Adler decided to take matters into his own hands by leaping six inches off the ground and whiffing miserably at a cross [. Click to continue reading...

Edin Dzeko Against Cottbus 1. Bayer Leverkusen The subtitle to their season should be "how we got to the top with a crap defense". They conceded goals by a misdirect from the wall on a free kick, allowing Tim Sebastian to waltz freely on another and letting 5'9 Iashvilli outjump a defender. If it [. Click to continue reading...

Edin Dzeko Against Cottbus 1. Bayer Leverkusen The subtitle to their season should be "how we got to the top with a crap defense". They conceded goals by a misdirect from the wall on a free kick, allowing Tim Sebastian to waltz freely on another and letting 5'9 Iashvilli outjump a defender. If it [. Click to continue reading...

1-2-3 - Current ranking of Bochum, Cottbus, and Bielefeld on the "Anti-Fair-Play Table." Here Bochum has a commanding lead thanks to their 33(!) yellows in 12 games. This trio tops another table as well, but this one's about "Anti-Results." All three are currently in the relegation zone. Coincidence? Click to continue reading...

Please click on picture to see all the caricatures of German footballers from Pit Hammanns Hamburg SV The Dinosaurs face Schalke in the most intriguing game of the weekend. They have lost three of the last four matches against the Royal Blues at Nordbank. Chances for this weekend's game don't seem great with Nigel de [. Click to continue reading...

The future is now as Germany are hit by injury to Robert Enke. Not that I wanted any injury to Enke, as I think he is a fantastic keeper and seems like an all around good guy; however, he has broken his hand during the run up to this round of World Cup qualifiers [...] Click to continue reading...

0 - Number of wins by Frankfurt, the last remaining winless team 5 - Total number of shots by Gladbach in their 0-1 defeat to Hamburg 7 - Goals scored by Patrick Helmes this season, that's equal to or more than 8 teams (Hertha, Köln, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Cottbus, Frankfurt, and Gladbach) 8.06 - The average number of [. Click to continue reading...

A hat trick by Patrick Helmes and an unrelenting offense saw Bayer Leverkusen take apart Hannover 96 tonight. The illness and injury riddles Reds, were humiliated by Bayer 04, but also their lack of fight as they seemed disinterested in the proceedings. Bayer have the most fluid attack in the Bundesliga with [. Click to continue reading...

Germany's worst football team is looking for sponsors. (Spiegel Online) Why take a new photo of Jens Lehmann, when an intern with a pirated copy of Photoshop does the trick for VfB Stuttgart? (The Local) Seven reasons why the Bundesliga is better than the English Premier League. (Bundesliga Talk) The grass is always greener. Click to continue reading...

Following Rene Adler's shoulder injury, Jogi Löw decided to call up Werder Bremen's Tim Wiese and give him a "chance". This is how it went for him... He spent some time with Andreas Köpcke and Robert Enke during training... ..then he spent some time on the bench - around 90 minutes - Click to continue reading...

The new Bundesliga season is just days away, so Bundesliga Talk writers Mark Moll and Double Pivot decided to interview one of the preeminent writers and authors on the topic of German soccer, Raphael Honigstein. Many readers may know Honigstein best from his appearances on the Football Weekly Podcast by The Guardian. Click to continue reading...

This week we make the short trip west on the A40 from Dortmund past Bochum to Gelsenkirchen, home to Schalke 04 and their new coach, Fred Rutten. Much like his new Ruhr rival, Jürgen Klopp, Rutten has been a one club man for almost his entire 30-year playing and coaching career, all with FC Twente [. Click to continue reading...

This season's Bundesliga has certainly provided its fair share of excitement and tension, even if the favourites did rather run away with the title leading from the front from day one. Mad4football takes a moment to look at some of the ‘Tops' and ‘Flops' of the past season. Click to continue reading...

Schalke 1 – 1 Bayer Leverkusen
S: Kuranyi (45)
B: Gekas (53)
Schalke, a team with five draws all of last year, already have three in four games this campaign, yet still remain unbeaten. At home at the Veltins Arena, they dominated play against Bayer Leverkusen, but were unable to finish off the visitors.

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