News: Leroy Sané, BVB jersey, Pat Jennings

A colleague recently caused a laugh in our editorial meeting. For the first time in his life, he said, he felt sympathy for Bayern. The reason: the Munich players were wearing long-sleeved jerseys again – an almost forgotten style. For years, baggy sleeves had been virtually eradicated in the Bundesliga, and the shirts were only available in the fan shop at most. Instead, these wimps prefer to wear compression shirts or, even worse, short-sleeved jerseys and gloves in winter. After all, the name of their future ex-wife carved into their forearm, the mandala on their elbow, or the QR code on their wrist that leads to a re-live of their own water birth, has to be visible. But not so for the Munich team in the 2024/25 season. They set a new trend across the league. The pioneer of the new, old long-sleeved style was: Leroy Sané, of all people. He is not known for having a sense of tradition or even for recalling anything from the past. In any case, one looks in vain for a quote about his hometown of Wattenscheid; there's hardly a word about Schalke, about Pep, who promoted him, Löw, who discarded him, or about Claude Le Roy, after whom his father Souleyman named him 29 years ago. He probably won't say a word about FC Bayern either when he soon moves to Galatasaray Istanbul. And that's perfectly fine. Nevertheless, at the end of his Bundesliga career, people will ask what Leroy Sané, a man with no publicly visible qualities, actually stood for. And there won't be an answer any time soon. Apart from the fact that he brought back the long-sleeved jerseys.