Re: The Bundesliga Thread

by Gil Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:42 pm

Solbakken: 'Podolski is our best player, everybody knows that. Maybe he's even the best player in the Bundesliga'

by Serge Gnabry Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:45 pm

Ahem not quite, maybe top 5 this season.
He has a new biggest fan btw:

The Bundesliga Thread - Page 13 Tumblr_ls2a8uZOIV1r133cgo1_500

BTW, Ömer Toprak declared for Turkey today. I think right now more than 50% of the current Turkish NT grew up and learned their football in Germany.

They should pay us some money!

by Serge Gnabry Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:46 pm

Since this is pretty much the German football thread, the reason for my nickname here at 1:31:

by Serge Gnabry Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:36 am

Gosh, it's a German disease, Schalke waste about 10 sitters and Maccabi score on their first chance.

by VivaStPauli Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:39 am

Serge Gnabry wrote:Gosh, it's a German disease, Schalke waste about 10 sitters and Maccabi score on their first chance.

It truly happens with any and every German team, it's horrible. Dortmund, Neverkusen, even Bayern need a ton of attempts for each goal. Weirdly, the NT is much more efficient than the clubs these days...

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:22 pm

Schalke 2:1 Haifa

Two goals by Fuchs so far.

by Serge Gnabry Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:44 pm

Hannover will get a lot of money for Abdellaoue.

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:47 pm

Well, right now they should defo keep him Very Happy

Poltawa 0:2 Hannover atm, short before the break

by Serge Gnabry Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:57 pm

rwo power wrote:Well, right now they should defo keep him

Ah they should but you know it's unrealistic for a club like 96 to be able to keep him when they big clubs
come knocking.

They will need to sell him if they don't want to lose him for free and they will get a lot of money for him.
He can't stop scoring for both Hannover and the Norwegian NT.

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:01 pm

Well, so far Abdellaoue has a contract until June 2014, so they will keep him for at least one more year, I'd say. (Unless he has some exit clause of course)

by Serge Gnabry Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:09 pm

I know, I'm just saying that they should feel lucky because unless he completely sucks next season they will get a lot more for him than they paid and for a club like 96 that's huge.

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:11 pm

I just found a quote that says he has no exit clause in his contract. Good, that:

"96-Sportchef Jörg Schmadtke stellte gegenüber der Neuen Presse klar: „Es gibt kein Angebot und nichts, womit wir uns beschäftigen. Moa hat Vertrag. Ein Fußballklub ist doch kein Selbstbedienungsladen. Auch Abdellaoues Berater Stig Lillejord, auf dessen angebliche Aussagen sich die Meldung aus Norwegen stützen, betonte: „Stimmt nicht. Moa hat einen Vierjahresvertrag ohne Option.“ Weder ein 13-Millionen-Euro-Angebot aus Russland noch Anfragen aus der Premier League habe es gegeben."
(Source: Goal.com)

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:13 pm

Eeep!

Poltawa 1:2 Hannover (50., Kurilov)

by rwo power Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:57 pm

FT Poltawa 1:2 Hannover

Very lucky win for Hannover - in the 2nd half they only clung to the lead by a hair's breadth.

by VivaStPauli Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:04 pm

Yeah they really fell apart in the 2nd half, Poltawa actually played some decent football.

by justdoit_ Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:03 pm

Serge Gnabry wrote:
BTW, Ömer Toprak declared for Turkey today. I think right now more than 50% of the current Turkish NT grew up and learned their football in Germany.

They should pay us some money!

Now the United States as well. God bless our troops Smile

by Geo Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:08 pm

First Mehmet Ekici, and them Nuri Sahin..
Now Omar T0prak!

I understand them though, with Turkey they will have more chances in the starting XI.

by RealGunner Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:38 am

Borussia Dortmund: 112 shots in the Bundesliga this season, yet only scored 9 goals. Cologne have had 56 and scored 13

by rwo power Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:34 am

As i mentioned before - Dortmund need to drink more target water!

by Sushi Master Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:12 am

Toprak has no chance of breaking into the NT with Mertesacker and Hoewedes on the bench, anyways.

But yeah... the German FA are pretty much gifting Turkey a lot of talent. Hope Can doesn't go to Turkey.

Anyways... German clubs doing very well in Europe with inferior squads in comparison to the Italian clubs... Conspiracy!

by Geo Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:02 pm

Round 8 best Goal, Eren Derdiyok!!

by VivaStPauli Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:57 am

Sushi Master wrote:Toprak has no chance of breaking into the NT with Mertesacker and Hoewedes on the bench, anyways.

But yeah... the German FA are pretty much gifting Turkey a lot of talent. Hope Can doesn't go to Turkey.

Anyways... German clubs doing very well in Europe with inferior squads in comparison to the Italian clubs... Conspiracy!

We'll we've been the fishing pond for Turkey for years, it's our own fault IMHO, at least the great ones stay, which makes me believe it might be less about national pride and more about not having a snowball's chance in hell to break into the Germany starting XI for most. Only real loss so far is probably Sahin, and even he would be second fiddle to Piggy for ages.