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Jürgen Klopp starts the national team with a radical change

No place for Deniz Undav and Leroy Sané: The new national coach calls up a 44-man squad for four Nations League games with a job-sharing model.

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  • Jürgen Klopp has announced his first DFB squad for four Nations League games and is counting on a radical change with 16 possible debutants.
  • Prominent players like Deniz Undav and Leroy Sané are missing from the 44-man squad.

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Why It Matters

Jürgen Klopp has taken up the position of national coach and is planning his first appearance with a changed team.

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Radical renewal with two squads and 16 possible debutants: Jürgen Klopp starts his football revolution with lots of surprises. The new national coach no longer has room for fan favorite Deniz Undav or the “eternal” talent Leroy Sané, but he appointed numerous fresh faces to the 44-man squad for his debut with four games in the Nations League.

Completely new to the two squads for two games each are Hennes Behrens from FC Augsburg, Freiburg's Max Rosenfelder, Philipp Treu, Yannik Engelhardt and Derry Scherhant, Bambasé Conté (TSG Hoffenheim), Younes Ebnoutalib from Eintracht Frankfurt, Finn Jeltsch (VfB Stuttgart), Elversberger Felix Keidel as well as legionnaires Vitaly Janelt (FC Brentford) and Mika Baur from Celtic Glasgow.

Klopp nominated five goalkeepers but not Oliver Baumann

In addition to Undav and Sané, Klopp is also without Oliver Baumann, the injured Leon Goretzka, Pascal Groß, the ailing Angelo Stiller and Jamie Leweling. Manuel Neuer and Antonio Rüdiger resigned after the poor performance at the World Cup.

There are still 15 World Cup participants around captain Joshua Kimmich. And five goalkeepers, including Marc-André ter Stegen as the old and probably new number 1 for the first time in 15 months.

Klopp is planning a job-sharing model with player changes after the second game. The supposed “regular squad one” with Ter Stegen, the recovered Nico Schlotterbeck, Serge Gnabry, Lennart Karl and Jamals Musiala as well as Kimmich and Kai Havertz will contest the duels with the Netherlands in Amsterdam on September 24th and three days later against Greece in Augsburg.

After that, some players leave and new ones join. Squad two around Florian Wirtz, Said El Mala and Nick Woltemade will then play the international matches against Serbia in Munich on October 1st and three days later against Greece in Thessaloniki.

Squad 1 for Netherlands and Greece:

Goal: Finn Dahmen (FC Augsburg), Alexander Nübel (Besiktas), Marc-André ter Stegen (Ajax Amsterdam)

Defense: Hennes Behrens (FC Augsburg), Yann Aurel Bisseck (Inter Milan), Nathaniel Brown (Bayern Munich), Max Rosenfelder (SC Freiburg), Nico Schlotterbeck (Borussia Dortmund), Jonathan Tah (Bayern Munich), Philipp Treu (SC Freiburg), Josha Vagnoman (VfB Stuttgart)

Midfield: Nadiem Amiri (FSV Mainz 05), Bambasé Conté (TSG Hoffenheim), Yannik Engelhardt (SC Freiburg), Chris Führich (VfB Stuttgart), Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich), Lennart Karl (Bayern Munich), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Jamals Musiala (Bayern Munich), Felix Nmecha (Borussia Dortmund), Kevin Schade (FC Brentford), Anton Stach (Leeds United)

Attack: Younes Ebnoutalib (Eintracht Frankfurt), Kai Havertz (Arsenal FC)

Squad 2 for Serbia and Greece:

Goal: Noah Atubolu (Eintracht Frankfurt), Finn Dahmen (FC Augsburg), Jonas Urbig (Bayern Munich)

Defense: Waldemar Anton (Borussia Dortmund), Ridle Baku (RB Leipzig), Finn Jeltsch (VfB Stuttgart), Maximilian Mittelstädt (VfB Stuttgart), David Raum (RB Leipzig), Malick Thiaw (Newcastle United)

Midfield: Karim Adeyemi (FC Barcelona), Mika Baur (Celtic Glasgow), Tom Bischof (Bayern Munich), Said El Mala (1. FC Köln), Brajan Gruda (RB Leipzig), Vitaly Janelt (FC Brentford), Felix Keidel (SV Elversberg), Aleksander Pavlovic (Bayern Munich), Derry Scherhant (SC Freiburg), Florian Wirtz (FC Liverpool)

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Hosting of the Nations League games against the Netherlands and Greece as well as Serbia

    Very likely · Within weeks

Open Questions

  • How will the job sharing model work out in practice?
  • Will the debutants make it into the starting eleven?

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