Talking Fussball

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...

The Bundesliga is finally under way...and already there's so much to talk about! Matt gets 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.

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.

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!

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  ) Enjoy! We'll be back with another episode prior to the season's start, and TF Fantasy will be in your ears next week as well...