"Yan, Niki, and maybe Waldi are the players who can play the right-back position. Yan Couto played 10 minutes in the last ...

Niko Kovač started work as coach on Sunday, taking over from unbeaten interim coach Mike Tullberg, who stepped up from the club’s under-19s for three games after Nuri Sahin was fired.

Monaco and Wolfsburg coach this week. “We have reached an agreement in principle with Niko Kovac,” Ricken said to DAZN after Dortmund’s Champions League game against Shakhtar Donetsk (3-1).

With former Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovač now manning the helm at BVB, Hoeneß thinks some things are about to change for the woeful Black and Yellows. “Niko is a very serious and solid coach.