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Klopp starts the football revolution with an XXL squad and 16 debutants

Jürgen Klopp takes over as national coach and completely overhauls the national team. He does without stars like Sané and Undav, but calls 44 players into two squads.

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  • Jürgen Klopp has named a 44-man squad for four Nations League games for his debut as national coach.
  • With two squads and 16 possible debutants, he is making a radical change and forgoing prominent players like Leroy Sané.

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Why It Matters

After the recent World Cup disaster, Manuel Neuer and Antonio Rüdiger resigned from the national 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 Deniz Undav or Leroy Sané, but he appointed numerous fresh faces to the 44-man squad for his debut with the Nations League four-pack.

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.

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 recent World Cup disaster.

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

Klopp is planning a job-sharing model with player changes after the second game. 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.

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.

The offers:

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), Jamal 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)

Attack: Jonathan Burkardt (Eintracht Frankfurt), Nick Woltemade (Juventus Turin)

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Squad 1 will play the game against the Netherlands in Amsterdam.

    Very likely · Within days

Open Questions

  • How does Jürgen Klopp's job sharing model work?
  • Who will prevail in the new DFB squad in the long term?

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OrganizationsFC AugsburgSC FreiburgTSG HoffenheimEintracht Frankfurt
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