Chris Mcquade

Our first taste of Bundesliga football this season has been interrupted by an international break where top players from every Bundesliga side travel far and wide to meet up with their national team-mates and battle it out for European Championship qualification. It's always interesting to see which Bundesliga players find their form during their national […]

Sami Khedira has spoken about Joachim Loew's decision to name him and Schweinsteiger as Germany's first-choice defensive midfield pairing, and has challenged Michael Ballack for the right to fill the midfield role for the national side. Khedira stepped into the midfield and into the limelight during the 2010 World Cup in Ballack's stead. The veteran […]

Joachim Loew's young German side, who managed a third-place finish at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will be looking to pick up where they left off against Belgium for Germany's first round of European Championship qualifying matches. The tournament will be held in Poland and Ukraine in 2012, but before Joachim Loew's side […]

Joachim Loew has announced that veteran midfielder Michael Ballack will remain the captain of the German national team and has thus ended all debate surrounding the issue. Despite this, Loew has not chosen Ballack for Germany's two upcoming European Championship qualifiers against Belgium and Azerbaijan, and has not promised him a place in the squad […]

As the summer transfer season comes to a close Premiership teams are registering up to 25 players to compete until January. Some have spent big, some barely spent at all but the movement of players is a key in any clubs success. However, now and again transfers don't work out at all, these so called […]

Wolfsburg playmaker Zvjezdan Misimovic has completed a move to Turkey with Galatasaray after having his first-team place with Die Wolfe taken by new arrival Diego. Misimovic moved to Wolfsburg from Nurnberg in 2008, and helped Die Wolfe to the Bundesliga title under ex-manager Felix Magath. Misimovic's off the ball movement and creativity was an essential […]

Markus Rosenberg, who scored the vital goal in Werder Bremen's Champions League qualifying match against Sampdoria, has today been loaned out to Racing Santander in La Liga for more consistent first-team opportunities. This summer, Werder Bremen have signed Austrian striker Marko Arnautovic, as well as German prospect Felix Kroos, and so Rosenberg's first-team opportunities would […]

Hoffenheim have snapped up Iceland and Reading wonderkid Gylfi Sigurdsson for a fee believed to be around 5 million euros. Sigurdsson had recently made himself a key player for Reading, impressing especially during Reading's FA Cup run where they defeated Premier League side Liverpool in dramatic fashion. Sigurdsson has been purchased to replace attacking midfielder […]

Schalke have added creative midfielder Jose Jurado to their ranks after signing Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar earlier in the day. Jurado will have cost Schalke another 13 million Euros, so Magath's side are certainly splashing the cash to combat their very poor start to the Bundesliga season. Jurado has been at Atletico Madrid for four […]

Prolific Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has completed a move today to the Bundesliga with Schalke, where he will rejoin former Real Madrid teammates Christoph Metzelder and Raul. Huntelaar had been on the outs at Milan for some time now after failing to secure a first-team place, and the signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic further reduced Huntelaar's […]

Juventus and Italy winger Mauro Camoranesi has today been snapped up by Stuttgart on a one-year loan deal with the option to sign on for another season. Camoranesi's first-team place at Juventus was filled by new signings Milos Krasic and Simone Pepe, so the experienced winger was forced to move on to secure regular playing […]

Reporting from Camp Nou (although belatedly) As Ronaldinho took to the field, the last player to do so for either team, 96,315 people cheered and applauded. A chant of 'Ronny, Ronny, Ronny' started around the stadium. People smiled as he lined up with the Barcelona team for the photo just before the Joan Gamper trophy […]

UEFA President Michel Platini has today announced that UEFA, the European football governing body, will pass a law that states that clubs cannot spend more money than they make, and that the 'sugar daddy' owners who have become so infamous in football, cannot inject massive amounts of cash into their clubs to provide for excessive […]

Ex-Rangers and Chicago Fire winger DaMarcus Beasley has today completed a transfer to the Bundesliga with Hannover 96. While Beasley is seen as something of a journeyman, having played for six different clubs in an eleven year career, he will be looking to cement his place in Hannover's starting line-up and force his way back […]

French center-half Mikael Silvestre has today signed a two-year deal with Bremen after being released by English giants Arsenal this summer. Silvestre's experience could prove vital should Werder Bremen experience an injury crisis as the season goes on. While he is not at the level he once was, he will be helpful back-up to starting […]