Re: Ze German Thread

[urbaNRoots]

[Kick]

Sack Löw, get Klopp, ASAP! Now is the time!

Didn't take long

[free_cat]

He just seems to lack his own ideas and ends up copying other teams,

Like copying Pep's Bayern...?

[farfan]

He just seems to lack his own ideas and ends up copying other teams,

Like copying Pep's Bayern...?

more like a combination of Klopp's dortmund and Jupp's Bayern .

lol at some pep fans still clinging to the idea that Pep had something to do with Germany winning the WC .

[rwo power]

Preliminary Line-Up of the German U21 NT for the U21 Euro (needs to be cut to 23 players still):

Looks like we have a severe goalkeeper problem - Horst Hrubesch has to decide whom to leave at home of the four...

GKs: Timo Horn (1. FC Köln), Loris Karius (FSV Mainz 05), Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona)

Defense: Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund), Christian Günter (SC Freiburg), Dominique Heintz (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Robin Knoche (VfL Wolfsburg), Julian Korb (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Willi Orban (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Nico Schulz (Hertha BSC), Jeremy Toljan (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield: Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg), Leonardo Bittencourt (Hannover 96), Emre Can (FC Liverpool), Kerem Demirbay (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Johannes Geis (FSV Mainz 05), Leon Goretzka (Schalke 04), Joshua Kimmich (RB Leipzig), Felix Klaus (SC Freiburg), Moritz Leitner (VfB Stuttgart), Yunus Malli (FSV Mainz 05), Max Meyer (Schalke 04), Amin Younes (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Jean Zimmer (1. FC Kaiserslautern)

Forwards: Serge Gnabry (FC Arsenal), Philipp Hofmann (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim)

Hrubesch decided not to call up Julian Draxler, Shkodran Mustafi, Erik Durm and Mario Götze even though they would still have been eligible.

[rwo power]

Line-Up German NT for the matches against USA and Gibraltar:

GKs: Roman Weidenfeller (Borussia Dortmund), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96)

Defense: Jérôme Boateng (Bayern München), Erik Durm (Borussia Dortmund), Jonas Hector (1.FC Köln), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (FC Valencia), Antonio Rüdiger (VfB Stuttgart), Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield: Karim Bellarabi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), İlkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund), Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid), Christoph Kramer (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Inter Mailand), André Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern München)

Forwards: Mario Götze (Bayern München), Max Kruse (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

Jogi Löw decided to rest Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Marco Reus and Toni Kroos; Benedikt Höwedes misses out with an injury.

[RealGunner]

Gnabry's inclusion will depend on his fitness. Been training fine but haven't played any competitive match in a year I think.

Still nice to see him being called up.

[rwo power]

The U21 call-up is still very preliminary. There will be several players still eliminated from the line-up. Could be that Horst Hrubesch just wants to see where Serge Gnabry stands right now.

MAtS will join the fun later as he still has to play in the CL final, but I'm really curious who of MAtS and Bernd Leno will become the number 1 and who of Timo Horn and Loris Karius will have to stay at home.

[urbaNRoots]

I hope Gnabry will be included, he's been playing well since returning from injury and needs game time.

Hell, Gnabry is like the closest thingn to a striker in that squad, him and Volland. I don't see how he can be removed tbh.

[VivaStPauli]

Still no Gonzalo Castro. Oh Löw, you Maverick!

[rwo power]

Still no Tony Jantschke either

[farfan]

and still no that bundesliga top scorer .

[rwo power]

Alexander Meier is 32 and a real box striker. The SZ had a good description of him in their Season Review: "manchmal ist von ihm im Spiel 90 Minuten lang nichts zu sehen, nur die Startaufstellung offenbart seine Teilnahme. Kommt er dann doch mal an den Ball, reicht ihm meist dieser eine Kontakt, um ins Tor zu treffen." (="Sometimes you won't see anything of him during the full 90 minutes of a match - only the line-up gives away his participation. But when he finally gets to the ball, he often needs only this one contact to score.")

So he is not really a good idea if you want to have a striker who is involved in the play from defense to attack. Plus at 32, he's not really a youthful prospect anymore.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/unsere-lieblinge-der-bundesliga-saison-die-glorreichen-1.2492470-3

[rwo power]

Arrggl... Looks like the people outside of Germany did it and convinced the DFB to do a rebranding and actually call our good ol' Fußballnationalmannschaft "Die Mannschaft" only from now on

Please excuse me while I do a couple of head-desks now...



http://www.dfb.de/news/detail/dfb-praesentiert-neue-wort-bild-marke-die-mannschaft-124530/

[VivaStPauli]

The humanity.

Die arme Sprache.

[rwo power]

I just hope they will find something more creative for the ladies...

[Hapless_Hans]

ffs

that's what you get when you have a BWL moron like Bierhoff as brand manager and commercial laison.

[VivaStPauli]

Liked Hermann, Hector, and Rudy looked promising despite being horribly out of position for the equalizer. The US lead was just due to nobody giving a shit, that's Germany in friendlies, it's not like it surprised any of us.

But can we still sack Löw? That would be neat.

[rwo power]

Löw hates Tony Jantschke, and he is better than all defenders that were on the pitch today.

[rwo power]

Line-Up German NT for the matches against Poland and Scotland:

GKs: Manuel Neuer (Bayern München), Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover 96)

Defense: Jerome Boateng (Bayern München), Emre Can (FC Liverpool), Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund), Jonas Hector (1. FC Köln), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (FC Valencia), Sebastian Rudy (1899 Hoffenheim)

Midfield: Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund), Christoph Kramer (Bayer Leverkusen), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Müller (Bayern München), Mesut Özil (FC Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray Istanbul), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Andréé Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United).

Forwards: Mario Götze (Bayern München), Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg), Kevin Volland (1899 Hoffenheim).

Source: http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/nationalelf/633938/artikel_loew-beruft-can-und-etliche-rueckkehrer.html

[Hapless_Hans]

"Defense: Emre Can"

Löw

Now he's copying Brendan Rodgers too

[rwo power]

Löw ostracizing Gladbach's players again.

[dostoevsky]

Whilst I know it's meaningless, the way players are categorised in these call ups really bugs me. Whilst I understand the argument for listing Mueller, Reus and Shirley as midfielders - though I don't know what Poldi is doing there - why is Goetze then a forward?

At least they're not simultaneously listed with someone like De Sciglio, as under Conte.

[dostoevsky]

Löw ostracizing Gladbach's players again.

Angry at them for costing me in the Last Man Standing game, good riddance.

[rwo power]

(Re: Good riddance)

BTW, the categories are actually from SSNHD. Kicker kept midfield+forwards together in one block.

[Hapless_Hans]

Unless this is meant to be Poldi's farewell game I have no clue how Poldi continues to be in there.

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