2013-14 German Bundesliga Thread: Bayern Champs Again

[Massimo]

Who said i didnt like the game? Kurd, stop lying

[cgf]

Kloppo > Pep, Kloppo > Mourinho, Kloppo > Massimo. I hope that one day he wants to manage the NT.

[Kahn_2001]

Who said i didnt like the game? Kurd, stop lying

Impression I got from your reply my Turkish friend.

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[cgf]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC_XCjFO_OE[/youtube]

[Foye]

8th EC... German women have a monopoly in Europe

[Next Coming]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC_XCjFO_OE[/youtube]

LOLOLOLOL! Draxler man. I hope he stays at Schalke his whole career and elevates them. What a talent.

[J-Mezzy]

That was some beauty. Amazing talent, poorly defended though.

[Point forward]

Congratz to our ladies for winning the women's EC! Big hero was GK Nadine Angerer with 2 stopped penalties.

[ATL Boy]

Gundogan and Dortmund are holding contract extension talks

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/15073 ... nd?cc=5901

[cgf]

Gundogan and Dortmund are holding contract extension talks

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/15073 ... nd?cc=5901

Was hoping this would happen after Illaremendi's move. Ilkay is such a phenomenal player.

[ATL Boy]

Kolasinac got his Bosnian passport today, he's officially a Bosnian!!!!

[cgf]

“When I first arrived at Dortmund,I told myself: “If 80,000 people come every two weeks to the stadium and that, on the pitch, we play boring football, one of the two parties, the club or the fans, will have to choose another stadium. Many fans travel 800km to see us and experience something special. It’s important to give them our all. We called this “football at full speed”. We want to make everything explode. We would rather hit the crossbar five times than find ourselves four times outside the opposition box and not take a shot. Might as well lose. That’s only the start of it. Youhave to create a link between the people and the club. The games have to have an impact on the fans other than from the result. Everyone knows that we won 3-1,but what people remember is a shot, a goal, or a save.”

“When the club was just about saved (from bankruptcy in 2003), the owners realised that the club needed to find a new vitality. So they went out in the aim to find a dynamic, bubbly, fun, brave and courageous manager who plays entertaining football. If you don’t have money, then you need to be brave. We signed some players very young and we decided to grow together. To not have money doesn’t necessarily that you have to stop working, it just means you need to find more ways to be successful. The club decided to continue with a manager from the lower leagues and a very young team, and we finished champions twice, which surprised us.”

When talking about the salaries atDortmund: “Even Tottenham pay their players more than us. We areone of the six teams in Europe capable of winning titles. In Spain,there’s Real Madrid and Barcelona,in England Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, and in Italy, only Juventus. But here, they can make history. If you sign at Barcelona today, you will be champion many times. So what? They have been champions for the past ten years.”

“It would not interest me to have Xavi, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the same team. Having a team that is 1000 times better than everyone else is a bit like playing tennis against a three year old girl. I would just smash the ball as hard as I could and the little girl would just stand there, motionless, with a racket in her hand… It’s not fun. On the other hand, if there is a man and we areplaying table tennis, then it’s interesting. If I win, great, if I lose,then at least we had fun. Me, I don’t want to just win. I want to feel something, have shivers going down my spine!”

Kloppo <3

[Foye]

Hearing Papa is gone to Liverpool for 16 mil. €.

Schalke wouldn't be Schalke if they didn't manage to screw up a brillant offseason. Stupid move.

[cgf]

I doubt that actually happens this summer but Schalke don't need Pap and he's still very raw, so anything over 15 would be a very good price. Hell if they wanted to they could turn around and spend less than half of that on Ginter and walk away with the better and younger player who has even more potential. *shrug*

[Foye]

I doubt that actually happens this summer but Schalke don't need Pap and he's still very raw, so anything over 15 would be a very good price. Hell if they wanted to they could turn around and spend less than half of that on Ginter and walk away with the better and younger player who has even more potential. *shrug*

Nah, he is not raw. He is Schalkes best defender by far.
I rate him much higher than Höwedes and Matip to be honest.

[cgf]

No way. Pap still makes plenty of terrible positioning mistakes and is very shaky with the ball on his foot. Howedes is miles ahead of him and Matip isn't far off since he's more reliable even if he isn't as powerful. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if Kolasinac ends up the best defender of the bunch.

[Shaazzam]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/bayerns- ... x-evasion/

German prosecutors filed tax evasion charges against Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness on Tuesday.

Hoeness reported himself to authorities earlier this year over a previously undeclared Swiss bank account. News of the case against Hoeness, long one of the most prominent figures in German football, emerged in April.

It caused an uproar in Germany, with even Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman saying that the country’s leader was disappointed in him.

[Maex]

Schweinsteiger was announced as German player of the year. Heynckes is coach of the year. Triple winner Martina Müller was voted as German women player of the year.

The vote is executed by the football magazine kicker and 527 journalist attended.

Full results:

Player of the year
1. Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern München)
2. Franck Ribéry (Bayern München)
3. Thomas Müller (Bayern München)
4. Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)
5. Philipp Lahm (Bayern München)
6. Stefan Kießling (Bayer Leverkusen)
7. Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund)
8. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund)
9. Roman Weidenfeller (Borussia Dortmund)
10. Arjen Robben (Bayern München)

Coach of the year
1. Jupp Heynckes (Bayern München)
2. Christian Streich (SC Freiburg)
3. Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund)
4. Markus Weinzierl (FC Augsburg)
5. Armin Veh (Eintracht Frankfurt)

Women player of the year
1. Martina Müller (VfL Wolfsburg)
2. Celia Okoyino da Mbabi (SC Neuenahr)
3. Lena Goeßling (VfL Wolfsburg)
4. Conny Pohlers (VfL Wolfsburg)
5. Nadine Keßler (VfL Wolfsburg)

[Massimo]

Kiessling at 6th? I don't know how to laugh..

Klopp third and Streich second?

[Foye]

Kiessling at 6th? I don't know how to laugh..

Klopp third and Streich second?

It is not representative anyway. There was a major bug in the voting system.

Like only a fraction of those 3500+ journalists who were supposed to vote, got the survey.