German Football 20/21

[Hansi Fick]

If the stadiums were full I'd go at least 50/50 towards Rose not making it until the end of the season. But without the fans there is no direct pressure: who cares if people are foaming at the mouth in front of their computer screens. And Eberl's threshold for taking the gamble of an interim coach is probably pretty high as well.

You can't completely rule out such a situation: it would be the same if his contract was running out and somewhat similar if he was aggressively pushing for a move. It's a bit of an ambivalent situation, because he was a big catch for Gladbach at the time, they wanted to change/implement their club philosophy and his aligned perfectly with it and it paid off handsomely with the top four finish in his first season and their CL campaign the current season, so it could be argued that people shouldn't be so quick to forget where the club was heading under Hecking and that no matter how this plays out it will have been worth it.
On the other hand a two year release clause undermines everything a newly appointed coach is supposed to stand for and all the talk of being happy to get to work at a club like Gladbach and building something together that both Eberl and Rose talked when this thing started seems like hollow cynicism now.

Yeah, with coaches contract situations are always fluid and ambivalent. But exactly as you say, it's just ironic because of the whole human, cathartic melodrama of Eberl telling Hecking he'll be replaced despite being such a great guy and doing a real solid job, in order to appoint someone for a greater, more expansive long term future, tears in everyone's eyes and such

t's a weird situation all around, Dortmund were 99% sure they were going to replace Favre this summer for a long time now, for all we know they sorted things out with Rose last summer, while Gladbach was making a signing like Hannes Wolf for him. And would Rose still have given him a cameo every single game if triggering the obligation to buy would've cost him €10m of next summer's transfer window?

I was wondering how long BVB and Rose had decided, I think we talked about it at the time Favre was sacked and the Rose rumours were immediate. Seeing that Favre's contract was running out, we should expect that BVB had indeed 'tapped' up Rose already.
The stuff about the transfer decision etc., it's intriguing. It reminds me of the last two summers of Pep at Bayern, when Bayern was in the running for all of Sané, De Bruyne and Gündogan and they all went to Man City instead. Ominous stuff, not sure who made which decisions there, with what future in mind.

 

[do.ob]

I was wondering how long BVB and Rose had decided, I think we talked about it at the time Favre was sacked and the Rose rumours were immediate. Seeing that Favre's contract was running out, we should expect that BVB had indeed 'tapped' up Rose already.
The stuff about the transfer decision etc., it's intriguing. It reminds me of the last two summers of Pep at Bayern, when Bayern was in the running for all of Sané, De Bruyne and Gündogan and they all went to Man City instead. Ominous stuff, not sure who made which decisions there, with what future in mind.

Given how quickly even the more reliable parts of the media zeroed in on Rose after Favre was sacked I'm sure that this was in a works for some time even before he had to go. And from what I remember early into the season there were some reports about Dortmund and Rose that prompted Eberl to complain about a lack of respect for his club. If you want to go 110% tin-foil hat then you could even speculate that Dortmund were already having second guesses about Favre when the team dropped that lead on Bayern and he declared the title gone at the first opportunity and that it might not have been a coincidence that Rose's release clause lined up with the end of Favre's contract.

 

[Sayros]

Some rough weather going on at the Bayern game.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Godamnit.

Shouldn't count, really, the ball should be yellow

 

[B. Munich]

As I predicted (and feared) yesterday. A tired and decimated Bayern team faces a full match fit team from Bielefeld. The weather doesn't help either.
Still I thought Bayern have underfloor heating to prevent the pitch becoming unplayable.

 

[GhastlyHun]

I don't see the match continuing for long at this rate.

 

[GhastlyHun]

Defending is so 2020

 

[Tucholsky]

Defending is so 2020

Maybe it is only for so called experts available....

 

[do.ob]

Jet-lagged Bayern dropping points against Bielefeld in a game under freakish weather conditions.. the other teams at the bottom must be over the moon

 

[B. Munich]

Defending is so 2020

You calling that defending? I call it sleep walking.
Bielefeld had 2 shots both are goals.
The pitch is terrible. Bayern's quick passing game isn't possible under these conditions.

Why they don't use the underfloor heating? Can't be that expensive. Shocking.

 

[GhastlyHun]

Time to bring Müll... ah.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Maybe it is only for so called experts available....

We're just doing our bit to spread some optimism to the masses

 

[kaiser1]

1-3

The only thing I want from this game is No more injuries. I will gladly take this loss if we have no injury

We only have Coman and Sane as wingers now, Gnabry and Costa injured

 

[GhastlyHun]

You can't make this shit up

 

[Hansi Fick]

We've got this. We'll end up winning this easily, 5-4.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Cordova?!

 

[do.ob]

Come on Bayern.. let Bielefeld have their win.. It will make the relegation battle that much more interesting.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Come on Bayern.. let Bielefeld have their win.. It will make the relegation battle that much more interesting.

Well, it's not for lack of trying.. but if the opposition strikers just fall down to the ground, alone and free in front of our goal, not much we can do.

 

[kaiser1]

3-3

 

[BayernFan87]

Davies
Sané also very good today.

 

[GhastlyHun]

Cool, cool. Cool cool cool.

 

[GifLord]

What a crazy match

 

[Hansi Fick]

Offside!

 

[17Larsson]

Bayern defenders are asleep. They must be hungover from midweek.

I've been watching Bielefeld all season, they don't score three goals (nearly four) in a game!

 

[BayernFan87]

Bayern defenders are asleep. They must be hungover from midweek.

I've been watching Bielefeld all season, they don't score three goals (nearly four) in a game!

Why would you do that?

 

[Raredaredevil]

Wish I took Bayern at 4.2 when they were 0-2 down. I knew they would definitely come back to win the game.

 

[17Larsson]

Why would you do that?

One of my mates is from there, we were going to go over to watch a game this year so I said I better get to know the players.
It is a tough slog sometimes .

Hopefully they stay up so I can go next season

 

[Hansi Fick]

Süle has been depressingly disappointing since his injury. The way he is performing this season, he will end up getting sold. So bad.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Good point for us.

 

[BayernFan87]

Good point for us.

Deserved point for Bielefeld. That's how you fight in order not to get relegated *looks at Schalke*

 

[Acrobat7]

Süle has been depressingly disappointing since his injury. The way he is performing this season, he will end up getting sold. So bad.

I agree. Boateng will be at Bayern next season. Süle not so much.

 

[Piratesoup]

Süle has been depressingly disappointing since his injury. The way he is performing this season, he will end up getting sold. So bad.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but man, it's been rough...

 

[GhastlyHun]

Süle has been depressingly disappointing since his injury. The way he is performing this season, he will end up getting sold. So bad.

At RB he was better than Sarr, so there's that...

 

[Acrobat7]

At RB he was better than Sarr, so there's that...

Odriozola was better than Sarr at RB! Wait... i take that back. Hmm, it actually is a close call. A race to the bottom.

 

[Hansi Fick]

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but man, it's been rough...

I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt, he looked so certainly set on to be a top defender. But now he looks so ghoulishly unfit and slow, he looks depressed honestly.

At RB he was better than Sarr, so there's that...

Odriozola was better than Sarr at RB! Wait... i take that back. Hmm, it actually is a close call. A race to the bottom.

Süle did have a couple of good games at RB, true. Sarr, I liked his first few appearances but yeah he's not been good recently.
Pavard seemed perfectly decent last season but he just is a liabiltiy defensively when he plays now.

I don't know what it is, Alaba and Boateng supposed to leave yet are our certain starters under Flick, RB spot in the balance with no ideal solution on the horizon, Flick plays Hernandez inexplicably rarely, our whole defense is a massive Baustelle at the moment, and it's hard to understand why it's so messy. Add to that the poor overall defensive behaviour of our team.

I would normally be unwaveringly confident about a CL last 16 game vs a club like Lazio, and I was, but I'm getting a bit scared now..

 

[Acrobat7]

I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt, he looked so certainly set on to be a top defender. But now he looks so ghoulishly unfit and slow, he looks depressed honestly.


Süle did have a couple of good games at RB, true. Sarr, I liked his first few appearances but yeah he's not been good recently.
Pavard seemed perfectly decent last season but he just is a liabiltiy defensively when he plays now.

I don't know what it is, Alaba and Boateng supposed to leave yet are our certain starters under Flick, RB spot in the balance with no ideal solution on the horizon, Flick plays Hernandez inexplicably rarely, our whole defense is a massive Baustelle at the moment, and it's hard to understand why it's so messy. Add to that the poor overall defensive behaviour of our team.

I would normally be unwaveringly confident about a CL last 16 game vs a club like Lazio, and I was, but I'm getting a bit scared now..

For next season i expect them to keep either Süle or Boateng and bring in a new RB. As you correctly phras it: it is a Baustelle!

 

[do.ob]

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Hamburg doing Hamburg things..
The club's president, vice president and treasurer all stepped down.

 

[Hansi Fick]

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Hamburg doing Hamburg things..
The club's president, vice president and treasurer all stepped down.

Why? What the heck is going on there again? These people are just plain crazy, aren't they.

 

[do.ob]

Why? What the heck is going on there again? These people are just plain crazy, aren't they.

Apparently they were so at odds with each other that they weren't able to properly do their job.

 

[Hansi Fick]

Apparently they were so at odds with each other that they weren't able to properly do their job.

Just read the kicker article, power struggle between the remaining two Hofmann buddies on the presidential board and Jansen who had pushed Hofmann out, and of course mustardtrucking billionaire Kühne still causing trouble in the background. This club