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11 minutes ago, Bob.Loblaw said:
I hear he was causing problems with the head scout. You know, the one that has scouted all the great talent for Dortmund.
There were problems with Mislintat, yes. I think it involved the topic of a potential transfer of Oliver Torres. Tuchel wanted him, Mislintat didn't. Not really solely Tuchel's fault. Personally, I thought at the time we needed a player like Torres. Eventually we got a similar player in Mahmoud Dahoud, allegedly also at Tuchel's request. Unfortunately we won't get to see him under Tuchel.
Also, Mislintat isn't the only one responsible for transfers. That has always been a thing between him, sporting director Zorc, CEO Watzke and the coach.
Paulo Sousa will probably sign with Porto. Favre remains favourite, then Stöger (Cologne) and Bosz. Still hoping for Bosz, if we don't get Favre.
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55 minutes ago, Scottish⑦Canuck said:
I think his tactics have been questionable at times, especially this season, but that's to be expected from a young coach.
I find it farcical that he's essentially going to be leaving because two grown men had a bit of a spat. Favre looks like the best of a mediocre bunch. Had Gladbach playing some decent football the season before he was sacked but terribly inconsistent and a bit mental.
Yeah, maybe. But they've been successful and that's about all that matters. Even when he made mistakes he tried to correct them immediately within the course of a game. That takes some knowledge and some cojones to see and admit that. Tuchel hinted a couple of times at the team not being as good as some may think it is. And to an extent, I agree. This team is by far the most talented team we have ever had. But most of those players are either incredibly young (Dembélé, Pulisic, Weigl, Guerreiro) or don't have as much experience for the necessary consistency (Bartra). Some have just been career-long streaky players (Schmelzer, Castro, Kagawa) or injured a lot (Reus).
The rest of your assessment I concur, especially the last half sentence.
My (realistic) favourites would be Michael Laudrup or Peter Bosz from Ajax. But our board unfortunately isn't that creative when it comes to coaches.
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Tuchel sacking confirmed.
Media reports that aside from Lucien Favre (meh) Paulo Sousa (please no), Niko Kovac (dear god, no) and Peter Bosz (yes, yes and yes again) are amongst the rumours for Tuchel's succession.
I will consider supporting Schalke if our new coach is either Sousa or Kovac (not sure yet if 100% ironic).
Just some fun facts about Tuchel:
Best point average of every BVB coach ever
Has not lost a Bundesliga home match in his time at BVB
But yeah, fire the guy.
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12 hours ago, Beary Sweet said:
I read an article about winning their 1st DFB in the last 4 years after being runner up their previous 4 attempts in the Final and 5 things learned after the win. Aubameyang could potentially be on the way out and teams already considering making bids as well as Tuchel may be on his way out for not consulting with the CEO regarding playing the 1st leg of the last 8 a day after the bombings. Gotze not participating in celebrations was also mentioned. I'm happy with the Cup win and I'm hoping the summer doesn't go this way. Hopefully they build off this success and keep the team intact for another go next year
We lost the previous 3 cup finals, not 4. But yeah, first title since 2012.
Auba might be on his way out judging by his remarks in his post match interview after Bremen. But everybody was kind of prepared for that.
Tuchel will probably be fired this week. It probably wasn't just for not consulting with Watzke about his comments after the attack. There seem to be deeper lying problems. But nobody is really saying what those problems are. From what I can see, Tuchel is succeeding and plays entertaining football. Yes, he can be demanding and very ruthless in his decisions. But again, he's successful and that's all that should matter. So when (not if) Tuchel gets fired, I'll be extremely disappointed in our management for the first time since the appointment of Thomas Doll. And that's been 10 years now. Reminds me of Bayern's so called "FC Hollywood" times. And that can't be good.
Front runner for Tuchel's job seems to be Lucien Favre from OGC Nice. Former Mönchengladbach coach. Ironically, he is not the most easy person to work with as well. Arguably even more difficult, but probably more willing to give in to the directions of our management. Don't particularly like his style of playing and I don't think his passive defensive approach will suit defenders like Bartra or Sokratis. But well, it's worth a try I guess.
Götze missing the cup was weird, yeah. But he really wants to avoid any publicity at this time. Allegedly he was receiving treatment in Bavaria for his metabolic disease.
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Woop woop!
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Would have loved to see Ajax win. They play a beautiful game. But Man Utd with individually better players and fulfilling all defensive duties.
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Speaking of Man Utd
2 weeks before the most important match for Frankfurt in years. Very smart move. Couldn't wait until after that match and consequently the end of the season.
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German U19s champions for the second time in a row.
This 1998s boys (Passlack, Pulisic, Burnic, Larsen and others) have won the U17s title twice in a row and now the U19s title as well.
Final penalty:
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4 minutes ago, milk and honey said:
greizmann says in french that he will decide future soon and a transfer to man utd atm in his mind is 6/10.
saw some tweets on twitter but idk how to copy and paste tweets lol.
In the top right corner of every tweet there should be a downward pointing arrow. Click that. Then click 'Copy link to Tweet' and just insert here.
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33.450 in attendance
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Crap. Weigl broke his ankle yesterday. Our for 3-4 months.
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John Hartson not too long ago about the transfer of Oliver Burke to RB Leipzig:
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It's even funnier now because he will play Champions League next year with Leipzig. As much as I admired Hartson when playing for Celtic, he's become the stereotypical British pundit now. Oblivious to everything going on outside his comfort zone.
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On 2.5.2017 at 11:07 PM, ReggieBush said:
Need a good laugh? Watch this
Reminds me of Bleacher Report's comments for this draft where they just said every time: "This is not an O-Liner. F." I'm pretty sure one or two of those comments in the video were from B/R as well.
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1 hour ago, two drink minimum said:
What the hell is Schneider doing. Make a 1st round pick already. its not that hard. They traded back twice. For what? an extra, late 3rd round pick. Starting to get annoyed with this jack hole
Moved back 8 spots and picked up a 3rd, a 4th and a 7th on the way. What's not to like?
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cup Final No. 4 in a row.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud of this team! After those last two weeks to come back IN Munich and win this is just incredible! And now on to the Cup win!
Edit:
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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Suspect arrested over bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund team bus
A 28-year-old has been arrested in southern Germany as a suspect in the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus on April 11, the Federal Prosecutor's office in Germany confirmed in a statement.
The suspect was arrested by a German federal anti-terrorist unit in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg on Friday morning and has been charged with attempted murder, causing an explosion and aggravated battery, an official press release said.
The Federal Prosecutor's office in Germany say the man is suspected of having acted for financial reasons and had speculated on Dortmund's share value dropping after the attack.
The statement added that the suspect had booked a room in the hotel from April 9 through to April 13 and April 16 through to April 20, the time-frame during which a second leg would have been played at Dortmund.
The Federal Prosecutor's office in Germany added that the three bombs detonated at the right time, but that the second bomb had been placed around one metre above the ground, too high to bring it to its full potential.
The Borussia Dortmund bus was stopped after a series of explosions that shattered windows last week.
The bombs were filled with metal pins around 70 millimetres long, with one pin found in 250 metres away from the blast.
Investigators from the Federal Prosecutor's office in Germany, the Federal Criminal Police and North-Rhine Westphalian state police had been following the lead after receiving information from the finance sector as well as from a bank suspecting money laundering, reported Spiegel, who broke the story early on Friday.
Last Tuesday, three explosions near the Borussia Dortmund team bus injured two people, including BVB defender Marc Bartra, and investigators later said that the attack could have caused major harm.
It was confirmed on Friday that one metal pin was found in the headrest of one the seats in the last row in Dortmund's team bus. According to earlier reports, Bartra, who was injured in the attack, as well as the club's keeper Roman Burki sat in the last row.
Following the attack, three identical letters were found near the scene of the attack and suggested a possible Islamist extremist motive, but investigators had doubts about their veracity. The Federal Prosecutor's office reiterated on Friday that there are "strong doubts over a radical Islamist background" of the attack.
They added that another letter claiming the attack for a far-right background received by Berlin-based daily Tagesspiegel on April 13 also raised doubts, and could not be linked to the person behind the attack.
Stephan Uersfeld is the Germany correspondent for ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter @uersfeld.
I shall quote the wisemen of Slipknot. "People = S***"
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It's always fun to see Sch*lke lose in an embarassing fashion. Kind of makes this week bearable.
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19 hours ago, Scottish⑦Canuck said:
As for Dortmund, they have a wonderful core of young attacking midfielders but they really need to shore up on the defensive side. Tuchel's tactics recently have been questionable to say the least as well.
Well, we do have Toprak for next season. When Bartra comes back to his old self after the attack, that's big for us as well. He has been our best defender the past couple of months. When he's on his game there is not much between him and Hummels. But agreed, Ginter can leave imho. Bender is a candidate, but more because of his injuries than his play.
Tuchel has already changed his system a bit towards a safer system (3 at the back + 2 wing backs) since the winter break. On the other side he gave up rotating the players as much as in the first half of the season which inevitably lead to tired players. I think that was evident yesterday.
Tuchel wants to play a Pep-style offensive game. High possession rates + immediate counterpressing when losing control of the ball. The biggest problems with that system:
1. You need another guy in midfield who is proficient in the build up next to Weigl. Someone who can transfer the play from the backline to the front. Götze, Kagawa are usually slightly too offensive in their positioning for that role, Sahin (if healthy) slightly too defensive. Castro is pretty good but unfortunately the most streaky player you will ever lay your eyes on. Merino might be able to play there, but I haven't really seen enough of him to judge. Dahoud should be exactly that player.
2. Counterpressing has to be close to perfect. That requires time. And with so many new guys in the team this year there will be problems. I think a year in that will look better as well.
3. For Tuchel's system (and Pep's) to work at its best, you need immensely talented players or you will be caught by counter attacks too often. Even Pep could only get his system to work 100% in Barcelona and in Munich, when all players were healthy and at their game.
Now, in theory we have those kinds of players, too. But they're all 5-10 years younger than the players Pep had at Barca and Bayern.
I still think it's the best way of playing for us and when Tuchel gets that system to work, we will again light a fire under Bayern's a*** and compete for the title.
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Good thing there's alcohol.
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16 minutes ago, CaptainCanuck001 said:
I think they would have a very good chance against any team left in the competition. They score goals for fun, have the pace to beat a man, and can be very technical when they need to be. The only question I have of them is there backline can look very shaky at times, especially against teams with pacey wingers (vs Man City)
I don't know. They were terrible in the group stages. Yeah, they've been lighting it up in the knockout stages. But against us in very unusual circumstances and against City which is kind of the prototype of their perfect opponent.
5 minutes ago, Scottish⑦Canuck said:Ginter is ******* horrific.
Yes.
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26 minutes ago, CaptainCanuck001 said:
Monaco are such a joy to watch. Really hope we go for Mbappe and Mendy in the summer window.
Meh. Counter team. Bundesliga got those teams in bunches. Great against posession teams with a shaky defense. Against Juve they wouldn't stand a chance. And so far they've got everything playing out for them (or against us, for that matter).
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Game will be on 5 minutes later. Police stopped the team bus for a bit.
In case you are wondering how the investigations progressed:
QuoteDortmund attack explosive 'from German military' - media
A German newspaper has said explosives used to attack the Borussia Dortmund team bus may have come from the armed forces. The players were on their way to a Champions League match on Tuesday when three blasts went off.
The newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" cited a source involved in the investigation as saying supplies belonging to the German military may have been used to make the explosives used in last Tuesday's attack.
"The explosives in the pipe bombs, which were filled with metal pins, might have come from the stocks of the German armed forces, but that's still being checked," the paper reported on Saturday.
Police probe new Dortmund bombing claim
The source also said that specialist knowledge was required to use the military detonators, which are not easy to get.
Prepare for more attacks
"Welt am Sonntag" said police believe further attacks are possible and that soccer games, rock concerts and cultural events are particularly at risk.
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) would not confirm the latest report, saying that all lines of inquiry are being examined regarding the attack, which occurred as the bus left the team's hotel for a Champions League match against Monaco. The match was postponed for 24 hours.
A heavy police presence was reported at Bundesliga matches at the weekend, following Tuesday's blasts
New email emerges
The latest revelations came hours after the Berlin-based "Tagesspiegel" newspaper said it had received an anonymous note claiming responsibility for the bombing, which left Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer injured.
The authors of the email described the bus attack as a "final warning" and threatened another strike on April 22 in Cologne, the day protesters are set to rally against the anti-immigration Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party.
German federal prosecutors are examining the latest note.
Several leads
The email follows a similar claim of responsibility at the blast site, which investigators said appeared to suggest links to Muslim extremists.
Hours after the bombing, police found three identical letters that allegedly mentioned the "Islamic State" (IS) militia, and demanded that Germany pull its jets from the anti-IS coalition in Syria.
But German public broadcasters and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" newspaper reported on Friday that investigators had "significant doubts" about the link to militant Islam.
A left-wing group has also claimed it carried out the bombing.
Former Barcelona defender Bartra, who had to undergo a wrist operation, left hospital on Saturday, but will be out of action for about four weeks.
Security was stepped up for Bundesliga matches on Saturday, in which Dortmund beat Frankfurt 3-1 at home.
http://www.dw.com/en/dortmund-attack-explosive-from-german-military-media/a-38439498
Quite some developments.
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11 hours ago, Alain Vigneault said:
Kolasinac to join Arsenal on a free.
Anybody here who follows German football (you know who you are) that can provide a decent profile of him?
Don't watch our neighbours too often, but he's definitely a very physical player and a fighter. Good tacklings, decent passing, pretty good in the air. But when it comes to his positioning he could be better. That often leads to spectacular tackles or physical battles along the sideline, which he mostly wins. But with better (deeper) positioning there would be no need to do that. Doesn't seem to be the typical player you would expect at Arsenal. Don't know how he will fit in as I haven't watched an Arsenal game this season, I think.
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Tuchel just said at the press conference that neither him nor the team were asked at any time if they could play today. They were told yesterday just a couple of minutes after the game was cancelled that they were due to play today.
The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
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Favre will officially stay in Nice. Now it gets interesting. Stöger, Bosz and van Bronckhorst rumoured, along with Sousa. Obviously the press has no idea