The 40-year-old Sandro Schwarz is heading into his third season as the head coach of Mainz 05. The finished the last two seasons in the 14th and 12th position. Even though they lost their star Jean-Philippe Gbamin who joined Everton for a reported fee of £22.5 million, they have a...
With head coach Florian Kohfeldt, Werder Bremen have regained their consistency on the manager position which the club has become renowned for. However, in 2019/20 Bremen await a big challenge as their playmaker Max Kruse has left the club and therefore Werder will need to change their approach. This tactical...
Tumultuous is a word that perfectly describes SC Paderborn and their fortunes as a side in the last six years. After promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2014, they suffered an unceremonious fall from grace. In two successive seasons, they plummeted to the third tier of German...
The 2018/19 campaign was one to forget for Real Madrid. With a La Liga title race almost over by October and humiliation bringing their European dominance to an end, sights have been set on this campaign by most even before Christmas. Embarking on a new season in 2019/20, there were...
Despite finishing the last Bundesliga season in 6th place, Wolfsburg decided to part ways with their coach Bruno Labbadia and brought in 44-year-old Oliver Glasner from LASK Linz. The Austrian already implemented a lot of new tactical ideas, which could be seen in the first friendlies of the new season....
Eintracht Frankfurt was last season the only German team which reached the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively of a European competition. Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke all got knocked out in the round of the last 16 in the Champions League and Leverkusen just reached the round of the last 32 in...
Julian Nagelsmann is one of the most courted coaches of the last few years. Almost every club in Europe wanted to sign the young German due to his great work at Hoffenheim. He took the team over in February 2016 and saved them from the relegation. In the last three...
The 2018/19 season was nearly something special for Borussia Dortmund. Despite holding a seven-point lead in the Bundesliga at one stage, they succumbed to the pressure, and Bayern Munich once again took home the Meisterschale. After missing out on what would have been their first league title for seven years,...
As the final whistle blew at the Stadion An der Alten Försterei, cheers of joy and elation rang out from the stands and into the warm May night. Union Berlin had managed to hold off Stuttgart 0-0 (2-2 agg.) at home to seal promotion to the Bundesliga for the first...
Niko Kovač is heading towards his second season at Bayern Munich. Having won the national double, the Croatian coach surely aims do bring Bayern back at the top of Europe and do better in the Champions League than last season. However, the Bavarian squad faced some changes, as two of...
Barcelona 2018/19 season went from glory to failure within a couple of games. At one point towards the end of the campaign, only three games stood between them and a third treble in the club’s rich history. All they had to do was hold onto a 3-0 lead against Liverpool...
After a poor season in 2018/19 which saw Roma finish sixth in Serie A, optimism has carefully returned to the capital at the dawn of a new season. The man leading them into this campaign is the Portuguese coach Paulo Fonseca. Fonseca brings a very specific and energetic style of...
After a disastrous 2018/19 season, Schalke will be looking to the future under David Wagner with a certain degree of optimism. Die Königsblauen finished in a disappointing 14th place last season and at times were embroiled in a relegation battle as well. Domenico Tedesco was unable to turn results around...
Under Brad Friedel, New England Revolution finished eighth in the Eastern Conference in the last MLS season. The awful start in his second season was evident as New England suffered eight losses in 12 games. There were major defeats likes 6-1 against Philadelphia or 5-0 by Chicago Fire. Therefore, when the...
After three impressive seasons, Sampdoria lost their highly-regarded coach Marco Giampaolo to Milan this summer. They also lost the hugely talented centre-back Joachim Andersen to Lyon. However, the mood in the club is still optimistic following the appointment of Eusebio Di Francesco. The former Roma and Sassuolo coach brings an...
