2012-13 German Bundesliga Discussion Thread - Bayern Champs

[Point forward]

RIP Ottmar Walter, one of the greatest players of the legendary 1954 WC-winning squad. You gave us 89 wonderful years, and you and your brother Fritz will never be forgotten!

Also a shout out to Köln legend Heinz Flohe, who also passed away.

[ATL Boy]

Did Borussia buy Christian Eriksen or are those just more rumors

[Foye]

Yuck...Szalai is headed to Schalke.
Not that I think he is a great striker but I'll have nightmares about being relegated for the next 12 months if we have to rely on Sebastian Polter scoring goals.

Might as well make Nicolai Müller the Messi of Mainz and play him as a CF. He did well in that role last few games last season.

[cgf]

Man...Szalai is headed to Schalke.

Man need to buy another striker now. I'll have nightmares about being relegated for the next 12 months if we have to rely on Sebastian Polter scoring goals.

Nice pick up for Schalke though. Even if he is coming off a career year, he'll be good #2 to Hunter. Unlike Pukki and Marica who are beyond useless. With Goretzka, Santana and Clemens, so far so good for Schalke.

[Foye]

Man...Szalai is headed to Schalke.

Man need to buy another striker now. I'll have nightmares about being relegated for the next 12 months if we have to rely on Sebastian Polter scoring goals.

Nice pick up for Schalke though. Even if he is coming off a career year, he'll be good #2 to Hunter. Unlike Pukki and Marica who are beyond useless. With Goretzka, Santana and Clemens, so far so good for Schalke.

Szalai is all hit or miss. On a good day he is hitting completely ridiculous shots and on a bad day he'll manage to screw up three 1 vs. 1 situations vs. the goalie. Definitely a good option as a 2nd striker, though.

On paper Schalke's moves look awesome. Maybe not so much for the next year but 2 or 3 years down the road they'll pay off big. The Goretzka deal is still not done, though.

[cgf]

Yeah, no they're going to court about it apparently? Gotta figure eventually he'll get the move he wants, but this is kinda nuts.

[Batu7]

Nice pick up for Schalke though. Even if he is coming off a career year, he'll be good #2 to Hunter. Unlike Pukki and Marica who are beyond useless. With Goretzka, Santana and Clemens, so far so good for Schalke.

Is Pukki that bad? I thought he had potential when I saw him play against Galatasaray(For the first time). He looked like a threat from the bench and played(kinda) like one. He has also been good in my Fifa and FM games, so I never got a chance to view him in a negative way.

[cgf]

He's not a striker, at least not yet, he wastes a lot of chances and should probably play as a winger or off a striker. But when he plays on top he's pretty useless.

[Foye]

Pukki is not only bad...he is terrible.

[Det the Threat]

The schedule for the upcoming season was released by the Bundesliga.

Bayern Munich will open the season on August 9th at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Now we only need to find the next Igor de Camargo to secure the 2nd win on opening day in Munich within 3 years.

Schedule for opening day.

Bayern vs. Mönchengladbach
Mainz vs. Stuttgart
Hoffenheim vs. Nuremburg
Schalke vs. Hamburg
Leverkusen vs. Freiburg
Hannover vs. Wolfsburg
Augsburg vs. Dortmund
Braunschweig vs. Bremen
Hertha Berlin vs. Frankfurt