Bundesliga review part 2. the new one :)

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Seems like I am allowed to post in here for another season! ;)

What a nerve wrecking series, not really the best football on display as expected, but I couldnt care less. What a great moment for our youngster Mijat Gacinovic, first he scores the equalizer at home and then sets up Seferovic for the deciding goal in Nürnberg.

I have no idea what Nürnbergs match plan was as they just parked the bus for 180 minutes, and only when we scored they started to wake up. Really really strange and not really tactics suited to win such an important series.

Anyway I hope we will see them back up in the top flight rather sooner than later. Got a lot of time for the "Glubb" and their fans.

For whatever reason I am already looking forward to next season, simply because I have a feeling that Kovac could be a really nice fit. Maybe we become the new Gladbach, almost relegated one season and then ending up playing in the CL. ;)

One can dream at least.....

Enjoy the summer everyone!
 
Bembeltown said:
Seems like I am allowed to post in here for another season! ;)

What a nerve wrecking series, not really the best football on display as expected, but I couldnt care less. What a great moment for our youngster Mijat Gacinovic, first he scores the equalizer at home and then sets up Seferovic for the deciding goal in Nürnberg.

I have no idea what Nürnbergs match plan was as they just parked the bus for 180 minutes, and only when we scored they started to wake up. Really really strange and not really tactics suited to win such an important series.

Anyway I hope we will see them back up in the top flight rather sooner than later. Got a lot of time for the "Glubb" and their fans.

For whatever reason I am already looking forward to next season, simply because I have a feeling that Kovac could be a really nice fit. Maybe we become the new Gladbach, almost relegated one season and then ending up playing in the CL. ;)

One can dream at least.....

Enjoy the summer everyone!
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As veterans of promotion/relegation struggles, I'm sure most City fans empathise with your relief.
 
Bembeltown said:
Maybe we become the new Gladbach, almost relegated one season and then ending up playing in the CL. ;)

One can dream at least.....

Enjoy the summer everyone!
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That sounds like a Frankfurt fan...

But yes, the differences between relegation and Europe seem to be not very big in the Bundesliga right now...
 
For anyone, who wants to make a trip to the first german cup round, here are the clubs that have qualified

Bayern München (I)
Borussia Dortmund (I)
Bayer Leverkusen (I)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (I)
FC Schalke 04 (I)
1. FSV Mainz 05 (I)
Hertha BSC (I)
VfL Wolfsburg (I)
1. FC Köln (I)
Hamburger SV (I)
FC Ingolstadt (I)
FC Augsburg (I)
Werder Bremen (I)
SV Darmstadt 98 (I)
1899 Hoffenheim (I)
Eintracht Frankfurt (I)
SC Freiburg (I)
RB Leipzig (I)

VfB Stuttgart (II)
Hannover 96 (II)
1. FC Nürnberg (II)
FC St. Pauli (II)
VfL Bochum (II)
Union Berlin (II)
Karlsruher SC (II)
Eintracht Braunschweig (II)
Greuther Fürth (II)
1. FC Kaiserslautern (II)
1. FC Heidenheim (II)
Arminia Bielefeld (II)
SV Sandhausen (II)
Fortuna Düsseldorf (II)
Dynamo Dresden (II)
Erzgebirge Aue (II)
Würzburger Kickers(II)
TSV 1860 München (II)

MSV Duisburg (III)
FSV Frankfurt (III)
SC Paderborn (III)
1. FC Magdeburg (III)
Jahn Regensburg (III)
Hansa Rostock (III)
FSV Zwickau (III)
Hallescher FC (III)
Winner Sportfreunde Lotte (III) – Sportfreunde Siegen (IV)

Astoria Walldorf (IV)
SpVgg Unterhaching (IV)
Eintracht Norderstedt (IV)
SV Babelsberg (IV)
Kickers Offenbach (IV)
Viktoria Köln (IV)
Rot-Weiss Essen (IV)
SV Drochtersen/Assel (IV)
Eintracht Trier (IV)
FC 08 Homburg (IV)
VfB Lübeck (IV)
Carl Zeiss Jena (IV)
SG Wattenscheid 09 (IV)

Bremer SV (V)
1. FC Germania Egestorf/Langreder (V)
SC Hauenstein (V)
FV Ravensburg (V)

BFC Preussen (VI)
FC 08 Villingen (VI)
 
How are Dortmund fans feeling as it seems they maybe losing 4 of their best players?
 
The sad thing is that similar to Robert Enke´s death, the attempted suicide by one of the German refs a while back and now Lewandowski´s suicide there will be a complete outrage in the press for a couple of days. People will discuss the pressure on players, coaches and refs, burnout etc and in the end normal operations will be resumed.

Lewandowski quit his job at Union Berlin earlier because of Burnout, similar to Ralf Ragnick a while back.

@mat: I think Dortmund is already used to this happening. They are simply not as big of a club as their fans believe, at least not compared to Bayern, the PL top teams or the Spanish Teams.

They lose players to top tier teams and they will poach players from teams smaller than them. Thats just how the story goes. I dont think they will struggle a lot next year, Tuchel builds up a team of very promising youngsters and duing his time at Mainz he showed that he is a great coach to develop young players.

Don´t think anyone will challenge Bayern in the coming years, but I doubt Dortmund will do bad. They will most likely end up 2nd for the majority of the time. Schalke is just the usual mess, Leverkusen has the tendency to bottle it, Gladbach is not consistent enough either.

Maybe Rat Ball Leipzig is able to break into the top 3 teams with massive spending, but spending money is no guarantee for success.
 
Dortmund don't sign their players to long enough contracts and don't renegotiate early enough. This gives the players the power and leaves Dortmund in a tricky situation, and I've never known a club be in this situation as often as Dortmund. I think they've done very well to lure the highly rated Ousmane Dembele though so hopefully they've learned their lesson so that if he does well, they don't allow him to eventually leave on the cheap. Every major club in Europe was after him and if he does well at Dortmund it will be tricky to keep hold of him.

I read yesterday that the Bundesliga has signed a new TV Deal which has nearly doubled the current one. I think the old one was worth €2.5 billion and the new one something like €4.7 billion. Whilst not at the same level as the Premier league, that is a significant increase and confirms its status as one of the big 3 European leagues, and it will mean teams like Augsburg and Mainz can probably offer better terms than the likes of Benfica, Ajax, or Marseille. So it should mean better quality players being attracted to Germany, and make it even more competitive.

Who knows - maybe it can give someone the chance to 'do a Leicester'.
 
Bundesliga fixtures out tomorrow! Time to start the planning. I need to get to Wolfsburg, Darmstadt, and Leipzig to complete the set, but there are several more I'd like to get to.

Don't feel like I've kept pace with the transfers over summer. I know Schalke have spent about €20 million on Embolo from Basel, have I missed any other significant ones?

Obviously Gundogan and Xhaka major departures so far....
 
cptaidan88 said:
Bundesliga fixtures out tomorrow! Time to start the planning. I need to get to Wolfsburg, Darmstadt, and Leipzig to complete the set, but there are several more I'd like to get to.

Don't feel like I've kept pace with the transfers over summer. I know Schalke have spent about €20 million on Embolo from Basel, have I missed any other significant ones?

Obviously Gundogan and Xhaka major departures so far....
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Werner to Leipzig, along with a few others.

Jeffrey Bruma, who used to play for Chelsea, has gone to Wolfsburg. Naldo has gone to Schalke too. Wolfsburg have also signed Gerhardt from Koln; who have signed Hoger, Rudnevs and Rausch.

Rode and Bartra to Dortmund.

Volland and Baumgartlinger to Leverkusen. Kramer has gone permanently back to Gladbach, who have also signed Vestergaard.

Hoffenheim have signed a few; Vogt, Hubner :( and Kramaric permanently.
 
Fixtures at bundesliga.de

Schalke starts in Frankfurt.Second match at home vers Bayern

Last match of the season in Ingolstadt.
 
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Our new kit! Not sure if I like it or not...Good news is that Krombacher once again becomes our sponsor. @cptaidan88 ; @Scaring Europe to Death: Even if the football is shit, the beer is decent! When are you coming over? ;)
 
Bembeltown said:
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Our new kit! Not sure if I like it or not...Good news is that Krombacher once again becomes our sponsor. @cptaidan88 ; @Scaring Europe to Death: Even if the football is shit, the beer is decent! When are you coming over? ;)
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When did you become Newcastle? Strange comment for a city fan to make, but I dont think there is enough red on that shirt! Thats going to take some getting used to. Have you played in White and Black stripes before?

I've been looking at dates but I think I'm going to wait until the Champions League draw has been made (or Europa if we get knocked out in qualifying). I know it was unlikely but was hoping you and Darmstadt would have been at home on the same weekend at least once but that has not happened. Will see how the fixtures changes pan out though - maybe an 'Englische Woche' will mean you both play at home within a couple of days.

One trip I have got my eye on is to Berlin over Easter weekend. My concern is because Germany is still quite a religious country in comparison to England, maybe you dont play on certain days over Easter Weekend and last year Easter fell on an International Break so I'm not sure. Will there be games Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (Bundesliga 2) as usual?
 
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