Leipzig and Rose bereft of answers as Stuttgart's daydream sweeps on | Andy Brassell

Ambitious club in a hurry to progress has never accepted the idea of transitional seasons - so a 5-2 tonking is a blow August seems like a long time ago. On the balmy evening on which Harry Kane was introduced to an ecstatic Allianz Arena, it was actually RB Leipzig that ran the show, and how. Back then the newly-arrived Xavi Simons had been dumbfounding his new fans with just how good he was, leaving Germany's biggest club wondering why they didn't have a player like that and leaving, perhaps, ...