The 2024/25 campaign has been another up-and-down season in a career of highs and lows for Süle, who turns 30 next September. Since leaving Hoffenheim for Bayern Munich in summer 2017, the powerfully built centre-back has tallied 30 appearances in a league season just once – 31 under Kovač at Bayern in 2018/19. He has totalled 64 Bundesliga games for Dortmund in the last three seasons, 29 coming in his first at Signal Iduna Park, with frequently the treatment room rather than the training pitch his place of work.
Niklas Süle: the return of Borussia Dortmund’s elite centre-back
