Bundesliga

Premier League club Leicester City has reportedly agreed to transfer Turkish international footballer Çağlar Söyüncü from the Bundesliga club Freiburg for around 19 million pounds ($25 million), British media reported on Aug. 9.

Less than 24 hours after securing a sixth successive Bundesliga title, Jupp Heynckes cut Bayern Munich's celebrations short as the club aims for a seventh Champions League semifinal appearance in nine seasons.

Beşiktaş will not cry for the moon when it hosts Bayern Munich in the return of a 5-0 loss in the first leg of the Champions League last 16 game, but coach Şenol Güneş remains ambitious to play tough against the Bundesliga giant on March 14.

The nerves of the Borussia leadership failed and yesterday morning coach Peter Bosch was released. In the last eight games of the Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund has 3 draws and 5 losses. The last blow was in the Saturday game against Werder - 1:2 loss. The defeat brought down the club to the seventh place - below the European tournament area.

Turkish champion Beşiktaş wants to maintain its good start to the Champions League on Sept. 26 when it hosts RB Leipzig for the first time as the German upstart hunts a maiden win in its debut season in Europe.

Olympiakos defender Panagiotis Retsos will continue his career in the German Bundesliga, after Werder Bremen reportedly agreed to terms with the Greek champions and forked out 22 million euros for the 19-year-old player. The deal is the most expensive in the history of Greek football and reportedly concluded late last night, after the German club swayed the reds by upping their offer.

Barcelona's official site announced a deal with Borussia (Dortmund) for one of its major transfer goals - Ousman Dembele. Neymar's replacement will cost the Catalans EUR 105 million, including bonuses that depend on the player's performance. Yesterday, the Spanish media reported that Dembele would cost Barca 150 million euros with all the additional tranches included.

Hamburg SV, who narrowly avoided relegation last season, have signed on-loan Greece international Kyriakos Papadopoulos on a permanent three-year deal from Bayer Leverkusen, the Bundesliga club said on Wednesday.

Greek centre back Socratis Papastathopoulos is leading in the online voting for best defender in the German 1st division football championship (Bundesliga) for the first half of the competition. Papastathopoulos, who plays for top club Borussia Dortmund has 23% of the fans’ preferences against, with Bayern Munich’s Mats Hummels in second spot (20%).

Turkey is trying to lure more European football clubs this year, though it has lost around 50 million euros in football tourism income amid the diplomatic crisis with Russia, said a senior sector representative. The Mediterranean resort of Antalya alone is expected to host around 1,500 football clubs in 2016 for more than 55 million euros of tourism income.