Talking Fussball Podcast

The foals got back to winning this week, showing us what can happen when their attack is on song: A thrilling 4-goal performance that was enough to take down a very game Eintracht. Matt gets his old buddy Abel Meszaros on the line for a chat about that game, about the hard-to-judge qualities of this year's Bayern, the staying power of Wolfsburg and Freiburg, and yes, a little bit about the boring-ass Revierderby. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's that time again - time for the blue and white side of the Ruhr valley to test its mettle against the black and yellows in Germany's biggest derby, period. But what does it mean for your fantasy team? Are Jadon Sancho and Amine Harit yesterday's news? And what value can you find in all the other, less-insanely contested games this weekend? JT and Flo have all the Match Day 9 answers... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well Bayern aren't running away with the title race...but then again neither are Dortmund, Gladbach, Wolfsburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Schalke, Leverkusen or freaking Freiburg for that matter. No, all NINE of these teams are within two points of each other, making the 'top half' a little too literal for comfort. Listen in as Matt and Terry try to make sense of the chaos, brought on by another week of what you might call unusual results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the October international break people - that means one thing: All the transfers you can can eat. JT and Flo bring a blockbuster episode to let you know how best to take advantage of this rare opportunity, not to mention what players to pick in the juiciest fixtures on Match Day 8. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'd like to sat we saw this coming - that Borussia Mönchengladbach would be atop the Bundesliga after the dust had settled on Match Day 7 - but we're not clairvoyant.  Mark Lovell came close, correctly picking 7 of 9 matches over on whoscored this past round, but (understandably) missed on the shocker of the weekend: Bayern's 2-1 home loss to Hoffenheim. Matt sits down with Mark to talk over that result, the attacking explosion against Augsburg that steered the foals into first place, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Visitors reigned supreme on Match Day 6 in the Bundesliga - the first round of games in Bundesliga history to see EIGHT away wins. What all those results meant in practice, however, was that Bayern Munich are back in a place they feel very much at home - the top of the Bundesliga. Matt calls up the spectacular Marie Schulte-Bockum for a talk about the return of the kings, her high-flying Schalke, Dortmund's difficulties, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lord give me unlimited transfers...but not just yet. The Official Fantasy Bundesliga gods are nearly ready to smile on us with a true open season on transfers, but there's no reason to wait until then to fix your team, starting with the defense. Listen in as JT and Flo offer up cures for what ails your team - listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a difference a few days can make. Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen, and especially Borussia Mönchengladbach underperformed in European action this past week...but on Match Day 5 all three got good results. Matt talks with Matthew Marshall, who saw all these teams in the past few days, about where they're headed and what will seal their success or failure in Europe this season. They also address RB Leipzig's title tilt, Hertha's overdue (and ugly) first win, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A string of Bundesliga sides were in action in the UEFA Champions (and Europa) League this week. With players in need of a rest, is that going to foul up your fantasy team? JT and Flo are here to dig into that subject and many more ahead of Match Day five. Listen in and score big. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Match Day 4 in the Bundesliga brings two absolutely massive fixtures: First, Borussia Dortmund host Bayer Leverkusen, and later that day Bayern Munich travel to Leipzig to take on Rasenballsport.  Since those teams are full of expensive players not every fantasy manager can afford, where's the real value in each of those games? JT and Flo have the answer to that question...and many more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've got something special for you all today - a look behind the Patreon curtain! Here's an episode of Talking Fussball Extra, Nik Wildhagen and Terry Duffelen's podcast that takes a wider view of the German football scene and appears every few weeks on our Patreon feed. This week they dig into some of the thorniest issues facing football in Germany and elsewhere. What do the fates of English clubs Bury and Bolton mean for the future of football finance in Germany? How much pressure is the sustained success of the Bundesliga's "plastic" clubs (RB Leipzig, Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg, Leverkusen) putting on the rest of the league to "modernize" their financial models? And how do clubs in areas with high support for far-right parties keep their supporters groups from becoming megaphones for hate? Nik and Terry nab one of the best possible guests on these topics: Felix Tamsut of Deutsche Welle, a leading voice in international coverage of German Football fan culture. Listen in as this thoughtful trio deliver a mus

There may well be fireworks incoming on Friday night when two teams in European competition, Borussia Mönchengladbach and RB Leipzig, square off. You'll tune in - but should you go all in on your fantasy team? JT and Flo answer that query (among many others) to get you sorted out ahead of MD3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just two games in, it's early days in the Bundesliga - but the present pecking order is interesting enough to get our gears turning. Matt rounds up Kit Holden of AFP for a discussion of which among the five teams with a 100% record so far will be up front in the first class carriage for the duration, and which will be back with the hoi polloi. They also talk Timo Werner's contract extension, Dortmund's depth, and the latest round of VAR frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a wild and wooly opening weekend, JT and Flo have plenty of thoughts. Should you try and squeeze big MD1 scorers like Marcel Sabitzer and Zack Steffen into your team? Are you wondering how to replace Milot Rashica? And is Robert Lewandowski still a must-have? Listen in and find out... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Bundesliga is finally under way...and already there's so much to talk about! Matt gets Marie Schulte-Bockum of Focus Online on the line for a chat about: Bayern's stutter-start against a lively Hertha; BVB's 5-1 throttling of a poor Augsburg side; RasenBallsport's raining on Union Berlin's (already quite rainy) opening day parade; how Gladbach and her beloved Schalke looked under new management...and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2019-20 Bundesliga season is nearly here, so it's high time to make a few bold statements drawn from the crystal ball. Matt and Ronan Murphy (goal.com) talked an hour's worth of fussball and served up lots of prognostications to gloat over (or embarrass themselves with) come May. According to one of them, we'll have a new meister this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Look out folks - cuz this one's BIG. JT and Flo are back for what might be the most important Talking Fussball Fantasy episode of the year - the season preview, where our two hosts help you get your team in order for Match Day 1. Among the questions you'll see answered in the first 10 minutes of a 70+ minute show: How many players should pick up? How much should you spend on goalkeepers? Is a super-duper-star like Robert Lewandowski worth his monster price tag? With all that plus a thorough-going run through the full fixture list for round one, Fantasy managers cannot afford to miss this show...and those on the fence about making a team this season should listen, get informed and take that leap! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back! Now that Bundesliga sides have concluded their pre-season tours of the US and their sleep-away camps in Austria, it was simply time to start taking the season to come a bit more seriously. And the first step down that path is to take the SERIOUS title that is the DFL Supercup EVER SO SERIOUSLY. So here Matt and Terry are, counting the takeaways from FC Bayern München's earth-shattering 2-0 defeat, including the one that says hmm...Borussia Dortmund may well win the league this year. They also zoom in on RB Leipzig and Bayern 04 Leverkusen, as well as rake FC Schalke 04's chairman over the coals for some pretty egregious behavior. As a bonus treat, there's an extract of Matt's interview with Hertha BSC executive board member and digital strategy supremo Paul Keuter, whom he caught up with earlier this summer on the sidelines of the team's practice in Madison, Wisconsin. (Full interview available on https://www.patreon.com/talkingfussball) Enjoy! We'll be back with another episode prior to the s