You cannot have a top-level Full back sitting down all season waiting for Kimmich and Alaba to get injured. In most cases, you need to put up with an inferior player covering the full back position like Delph. Rafinha Milner
Really? Let's talk about the chance conversion of Lewandowski and Müller in the recent months and then look at the following graphics.. - I underlined the data of the Bayern (and BVB-players) of the whole season - and added the data from understat.com from just 2019 (without all the data from the first part of the season when the team struggled) of the Bayern offensives. Bayern scored 52 goals in 17 matches since then - but if Lewy and Müller nearly weren't 7 and 5 goals below the expected values. Since January it was usually (with exceptions) Müller behind Lewy and Coman/Gnabry on the wing - or Gnabry left, Müller right and James on the 10.
Isn't there the 2nd leg left for the Stuttgart Union Berlin match? Hamburg were going so well but then fecked it up at the end.
Ah, no idea!
Yes, there is. Starts in 10 minutes.
5 minutes added on.Why do you rate them higher than Hannover and Nürnberg?
Hamburg's financial situation might start getting rough with another season out of the Bundesliga.
Why would Hamburg be better than this season?
Bit embarassing Stuttgart going down again with likes of Pavard, Ziegler, Mario Gomez and Ascaribar as regular players. I see Tommy Hitzlsperger is now involved in their coaching/sporting staff now.
It is already rough. Been so for years. Without Kühne, they would have been broke years ago.
They said this for Hamburg this season too (Cologne and Hamburg).
It seems difficult to imagine such a big club relative to their city being allowed to fester down there even if their financial situation isn’t great. I know the Sunderland example is there for all to see but it would be truly embarrassing, they weren’t far this season and only finished a point behind Union so I would expect them to take it seriously. Hannover and Nurnberg are extremely poor - they seem to me like the type who would easily finish midtable next season.
Yep, at least Koln managed to do it though.
Hamburg bottled it in a similar manner to Leeds. Were comfortably top 2 up to last 5-6 games when they blew up. To not even make the relegation play off was terrible. If you look at the stats though they only had a + 3 GD in the end. So many of their games were tight and low scoring. They only scored 45 goals compared to Paderborn's 76 goals.
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Add Son, Calhanoglu and Arp to that list. Hamburg has made many truly awful managerial decisions throughout the years. The club and it's representatives have some serious complexes, IMO, and were never willing to go the long, painful way. Always trying to take shortcuts to success, living in the past and in full denial of reality. No vision or innovation whatsoever.
Tbh I don't remember the context about Son leaving. I left out Calhanoglu and Arp on purpose, the former because he really did a lot to force his move to Leverkusen and the latter, because afaik his expiring contract forced Hamburg's hand.
Cracking ground that is...went there a couple of years ago when in Berlin and it was a great place, great atmosphere as well...
Well, the Calhanoglu transfer went pretty ugly but that's partly due to Oliver Kreuzer (you know, the manager who lost copies of player contracts in a public park) who allegedly tried to exploit Calhanoglu's naivety. There's a reason Hamburg can't retain their biggest prospects and that's their unprofessional management. Some talents were never really appreciated (like Tah), others left because the HSV couldn't provide them a promising perspective (Öztunali, Arp).
