I think I'm okay with this 'panic buy'.
FC Bayern 2015/16
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I think I'm okay with this 'panic buy'.
I think I'm okay with this 'panic buy'.
no.
It is just a loan with an option, right? That would make it acceptable, but I´d rather use someone like Strohmaier or really anyone who can run in a straight line.Tasci is shit.
Yes. Loan until the end of the season. I don't expect Tasci to start in the important CL games, but we need healthy CBs and I don't write him off just yet.
Yeah, it's just a 6months loan with an option to buy him. I don't mind that to be honest. I'd rather see Kimmich play at centerback than him, but at least we have another defender if the worst case scenario becomes reality and we lose our last remaining centerback to injury as well.
I do not really know where to put this graphic - but it is about the relation between ball possession and shots conceded...
Tasci
Was hoping for HW4 but that's not bad either!
Was hoping for HW4 but that's not bad either!Tasci is a better option than many others that were discussed...
Some german media speculating which Bayern player he might attract to City.. Boateng, Alaba, Thiago, Kimmich, Lewandowski... I'd hate to see either Boateng or Thiago go. I love Pep, but if he snatches Alaba from us, i may be forced to write a letter to the Times.
Some german media speculating which Bayern player he might attract to City.. Boateng, Alaba, Thiago, Kimmich, Lewandowski... I'd hate to see either Boateng or Thiago go. I love Pep, but if he snatches Alaba from us, i may be forced to write a letter to the Times.
Martinez' surgery was successful. Expected to be out for 4 weeks. Minor meniscus damage (don't like the sound of that, meniscus injuries are always crappy).
This just proves how much the possession system relies on quality players. Luckily for you guys with lewandowski/robben/Costa you generally create a few GOOD goal scoring chances.I do not really know where to put this graphic - but it is about the relation between ball possession and shots conceded...
With us we really struggle to carve anything after that possession.
I do think city will have the same struggle after the first year. Aguero isn't a patient striker, he likes running into space. Depending who else they get in it won't be so easy like many expect.
This just shows how many shots these team receive on their own goal, not how many chances they create...
The Manchester United point is the one just above the one of Juventus.
Isn't that the whole point of possession football? As long as you hold the ball, they can't score a goal. Creating chances is still the same challenge it was before possession football.
All these rumours about Arturo Vidal, can they really be true? Sounds like a big headache
Is it the booze again?
Part of it, definitely. Sampaoli should've kicked him off the squad at the Copa America, can't turn a blind eye to alcoholism
Knew it was Vidal as soon as I saw the tweet
Probably out of Pep's hands but I'd be surprised if he would stand for it.
Dodged a bullet hehe
I do not really know where to put this graphic - but it is about the relation between ball possession and shots conceded...
Heh, we are at the opposite end of you guys. Darmstadt is the anti-Bayern. Shit possession and tons of shots conceded. Just glad we aren't at the opposite end of the table, just yet.
Tasci isn't able to be at the presser right now because he injured himself in training. Will miss 2-3 days, slight concussion. Nothing too dramatic, but that sums Bayern up quite perfectly.
Tasci isn't able to be at the presser right now because he injured himself in training. Will miss 2-3 days, slight concussion. Nothing too dramatic, but that sums Bayern up quite perfectly.
What's the reaction in Germany to all these injuries? After Pep's public fallout with the previous team doctor, I can imagine that these raft of injuries must have prompted some ridicule?
The way Pep publicly humiliated someone from his own staff makes me think that he deserves this situation.
Supposedly it's already been announced that the team doctor is returning after Pep's departure
He's really got a problem, doesn't he? Was he also intoxicated when he crashed his car during Copa America or it was just speeding? Can't remember for shit.
Sammer has come out chastizing lies of the press but not a story that is going away with PR denials
The media has gone 'It's all Pep's fault' for quite a while now, some fans are thinking the same. In the end of the day it's all speculation because we have no inside - it may well be a mixture of everything: The hybrid turf, the intense training sessions, injury prone players, Pep rushing players back too early (Ribéry).
I don't know if Müller-Wohlfahrt is a better doctor than Braun, but the majority of the players are still going to him anyway. IIRC it was Müller-Wohlfahrt who didn't caught Ribéry's ankle injury last year, he has his faults as well.
Vidal posted via his social media that he has instructed his lawyers to 'initiate a legal claim against the newspaper'.
It's easier for Bayern that way since he's leaving. But he has history of rushing players if rumours are believed. I also read some time ago that Rumminegge gave him freedom over the medical department.
In what way?
When to bring players back, course of treatment. I can't remember exactly but that the doctors report to Pep. Which I thought was weird. Shouldn't that be the case normally?
which is quite a joke imo. It is well known that Ribery is one of the few players who wont shed a tear when Pep is gone, and afaik that is mutual. I think especially Ribery is very much capable of rushing himself back. He was the best player of the team and the supporters hero for almost a decade, and he feels the young wolfes breathing down his neck. Which possibly is true for most of the players involved. A starting spot in a top 3 club is nothing you want to give up easily. There are a total of 2.5 players who could tell the doc or coach: "nah i'm not feeling fully fit yet, let me pause another week" because they are completely unchallenged: Lahm, Neuer. Lewa is the .5 man because Bayern might hire a replacement striker if he went out for half a year. (and no, i didn't forget Müller)
Its all in the heads. They trust Mull.
No. Doctors should not report to untrained managers.
@strongwalker
I'm still puzzled about Ribéry starting the dead rubber game against Zagreb to be honest. He had been training with the team for 1 or 2 weeks at that time and although he was subbed in the Gladbach match, I thought risking him like that (with the winter break around the corner) was stupid.
I'm still puzzled about Ribéry starting the dead rubber game against Zagreb to be honest. He had been training with the team for 1 or 2 weeks at that time and although he was subbed in the Gladbach match, I thought risking him like that (with the winter break around the corner) was stupid.
Peps tenure hasn't been a fairytale, that was over after his first CL semis. Right now, you can see the pressure getting him. If he doesn't win it this year, with the calamities around, he knows his stint will be considered a failure by a lot of people. Which might also be a reason for him to rush players out.
if you have a player who's been injured a long time, you want to get him match practice. What better way to do that than in a relatively unimportant match?! "training with the team for 1 or 2 weeks" means: he played football 2-4hrs a day for 2 weeks.
So for all Bayern fans here, what's your opinion on Heynckes vs Pep's teams so far? Will it change your opinion if Bayern wins CL this season? I am assuming everyone expects Bayern to win the league easily.
Not a Bayern fan, but here is my opinion on that matter:
Heynckes´ last team was the strongest Bayern team I have ever seen in my lifetime and scarily versatile (they were stronger on the break for example), but I don´t think their performance level was sustainable for a longer period of time, because mentality played a huge role that season after their nightmare season before that one (not overall performance but the way they missed out on every title).
Guardiola made the squad stronger and more consistent, which led them to be even more dominant in the league, but fell short in the most important matches in the CL.
The bold might be how a lot people view it from the outside, but being up 8 Points compared to the second place holder at this point of the season should not be taken for granted, when said second place team has a higher point average than table leader of other European top leagues.
Can't wait to hear/see Pep's pressys in the UK:
Guardiola:
Going to be a rough next few months for Pep
Guardiola:
Going to be a rough next few months for Pep
Poor fella
His agent is a nightmare
Wow. I can taste the tears.
It was similar when he left Dortmund. Surely doing this publicly doesn't help Lewandowski at all?
Taste a bit bitter does it?