News summary
Arsenal have made contact about Sebastian Krug, though they are third in the queue. Tottenham asked first, Newcastle followed.
Krug found Erling Haaland. Jude Bellingham was his as well, and selling the two of them on made Dortmund the thick end of 200m.
Konstantinos Karetsas arrived from Genk. He has been the story of preseason, though Niko Kovac has already capped how much he plays.
Karetsas is 18 and cost €30m. Kovac set the limit publicly after Saturday's friendly.
"He certainly won't be able to play 90 minutes every third day," Kovac said.
Julian Ryerson scored one of the goals BVB got back after Dortmund went two down inside nine minutes. That draw with Roma finished 2-2.
Ryerson put the recovery down to a squad which refused to sulk.
Daniel Schlager has been handed the whistle for the Supercup after more than 100 Bundesliga games. Bayern come on Saturday.
The women are out before, and they start their Regionalliga campaign at Stadion Rote Erde on Thursday night.
Arminia Bielefeld are the visitors at Rote Erde, third last season. Three euros gets you on the terrace.
BVB turned over Roma's women 1-0 in the dress rehearsal, so Bielefeld will meet a confident side.
Transfer news
Dortmund announced the signing of Giannis Konstantelias on Monday afternoon and he has signed until June 2031. Reports put the package near 30 million euros.
Getting Konstantelias out of Thessaloniki was not easy.
PAOK ultras protested outside the club's Thessaloniki offices and, by several accounts in Greece, occupied rooms inside their own stadium in a failed attempt to stop the sale.
Konstantelias flew home after his medical anyway, for family reasons not because he had cold feet. None of it stopped the sale.
The family reason was a second child, born only days ago.
Konstantelias is not the only arrival.
Joey Veerman has signed too.
Veerman's family were photographed leaving Brackel on Monday evening once the paperwork was done. Dortmund had simply paid the €21.5m release clause in his PSV contract.
Kovac had asked for him and the medical was completed on Monday. An announcement should follow this week.
Dortmund want a right-back and have about €10m to spend, though a loan would suit them better than a fee.
Hector Fort of Barcelona is the right-back they want most. Chelsea's Josh Acheampong is on the list too, alongside Torino's Marcus Pedersen.
Yan Couto is now at Como, so Julian Ryerson is the only natural right-back Dortmund have left.
Dortmund could fund the signing by selling Luca Reggiani.
Inter have asked about Reggiani.
Reggiani is not the only one who might go. Diant Ramaj is off again.
Ramaj has been loaned to FC Copenhagen, a Danish club he already helped out once, and his Dortmund deal still runs to 2029.
If Said El Mala ends up at RB Leipzig after all, Dortmund lose the summer's biggest target for good.
Sport Bild put Leipzig's package at €60m, 50 of it guaranteed.
That guaranteed figure is what Cologne always wanted.
BVB Buzz opinion
Fifty million guaranteed was the number Cologne never moved off through weeks of talks, and Leipzig now look ready to pay it. Dortmund spent roughly €52 million on two players instead.
Konstantelias and Veerman are senior internationals who between them cost less than one teenager would have, and the collapse as a blessing argument holds up on paper. On Dortmund's arithmetic that reads well.
Konstantelias is 23 and Veerman is 27, so neither will ever be the teenager this club grows and then sells. Instead, it falls to the two who signed to repay the faith.
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