Recent content by Breze

I don't think that's true. I grew up in southern Germany and would say that the Netherlands were certainly seen as our main rivals there, too. I guess it's rather a matter of when you grew up. The rivalry was pretty strong in the 70s and especially in the late 80s, when both countries had some...

Loved him back then, too, but tend to agree. Van Basten was great, but unfortunately he just had too many injuries. Maybe Matthäus needs to be mentioned here, too. He was ridiculously good in the World Cup 1990 and at Inter in these years, but tore his ACL in 1992 right before the Euros - could...

Hitzfeld won in twice with two different clubs in that period and reached another final?!

Why would I need to talk about this? At no point in time did I argue that players are forced to join these plastic clubs. Obviously you could argue that money (wages) is a big factor there, too, but I never said that players aren't allowed to develop there, so what's your point? In my first post...

Of course, there's always a possibility that sth could have gone wrong, but he was hardly an unknown and unproven player. He had already played a lot of games in the Bundesliga for Stuttgart before he made the move, so the comparison to Sancho is simply wrong. You already named two of them...

He wouldn't have stayed at Stuttgart anyway because they were relegated, but he could and most probably would have become the player he is now at another club, too. You're only always talking about mismanaged clubs like HSV or Schalke, but it's not only them that they've stolen a place in the...

What kind of example is that? He was developed by Stuttgart and seen as one of the best German talents by the time he was transfered to RB. He was a proven Bundesliga player at the time and his development wasn't exactly surprising. It just shows everything that is wrong with RB because no other...

Yes, the EPL clubs have the same kind of revenue but they don't perform like that on the pitch as you can see in the European competitions. That was exactly my point. While Barca and Real perform like world class teams the English teams haven't done so in the last few years and that is the...

Because these two are truly world-class, which no English team has been for the last few years. That's the big difference between the leagues atm.