Re: The Bundesliga Thread

by rwo power Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:19 pm

Well, I read about him when he was at Hertha BSC, but frankly, he didn't really catch the eye (or the headlines) then. (And that was when Hertha reached the 4th place in the BL... How on earth did Lucien Favre more or less stay under the radar then?!)

by farfan Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:34 pm

i hope ze germans aren't butchering his name by pronouncing the " e " at the end . :coffee:

by VivaStPauli Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:35 pm

We're francophile enough to manage.

That being said, I think when Berlin reached 4th, we mostly thought it was the likes of Voronin etc. overperforming, if I remember correctly.

by rwo power Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:59 pm

farfan wrote:i hope ze germans aren't butchering his name by pronouncing the " e " at the end .

Well, the BMG fans use "Lulu", so they don't risk butchering the surname Laughing

by Hapless_Hans Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:37 pm

Eh? RWO I thought you follow the Swiss league? He had a long and successful time for Zürich hmm

As far as I remember he was hired by Hertha when for some reason Swiss football was on vogue in the mid 00s.
He was thought of as the Swiss Wenger or some shit Laughing

I remember his Hertha spell vividly, I thought he was a complete clown back then as first thing he did was get "gefühlt" 5-10 scrubs from the Swiss league, Raffael, van Bergen, Lustenberger.
I never like it when a coach takes over a team and wants a new team first thing. Bad sign.
Didn't get along with Pantelic etc as far as I remember. Needed Swiss players around him to feel at home. However already then in his second year Hertha had a surprisingly good season 2008/09, could've reached CL, or even won the title LOL if Favre hadn't had the brilliant idea of benching captain Arne Friedrich out of nowhere for the last, decisive games.
So on the last matchday they lost 4:0 against last place Karsruhe and due to that didn't reach CL Laughing

Then everything fell apart and he was duly fired, Hertha was relegated after the season.
Didn't perform well for Hertha imo, made a lot of mistakes and was mentally not up to it yet.

But when he joined Gladbach he quickly won my complete respect by NOT crying for new players first, but turn a hopeless 2. Liga-bound team (one which was not cheap tbf) into a top team within months.
Immense performance by him, and he's proven and repeated it since.

Good man.

by Hapless_Hans Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:59 pm

farfan wrote:i hope ze germans aren't butchering his name by pronouncing the " e " at the end .

I'm afraid we are Laughing

by rwo power Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:26 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:Eh? RWO I thought you follow the Swiss league? He had a long and successful time for Zürich

Only since Basel managed that infamous 1:0 against Bayern Very Happy

Hapless_Hans wrote:Needed Swiss players around him to feel at home.

Probably because he's a Romand and prefers to speak French and thus he collected some players who could understand him?

Hapless_Hans wrote:Didn't perform well for Hertha imo, made a lot of mistakes and was mentally not up to it yet.

Sound like he needed some time to properly adjust to the Bundesliga.

by rwo power Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:33 pm

Bundesliga.com compares the star players for the Sunday top match Borussia M'gladbach vs Bayern München and starts with the goalies - doesn't look so bad for Yann Sommer (left column) there ^^

The Bundesliga Thread - Page 15 Neuer-17

The Bundesliga Thread - Page 15 Neuer-17

http://www.bundesliga.de/de/liga/news/2014/infografik-yann-sommer-vs-manuel-neuer.php

by BAYERN_MUNICH Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:21 am

Bundesfodder :bow:

6 wins

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:57 am

LOL, that's cute:

Bayern vs AS Roma Highlights

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by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:41 pm

Dortmund are playing in their Champions League kits today (with special permission of the DFL) Laughing

by VivaStPauli Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:28 pm

They are also playing as if they were trying to win the Champions League.....

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:58 pm

Well, they need to win a match or two in the BL again....

by Robespierre Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:21 pm

ehm, and they are stiill losing Laughing

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:25 pm

I guess Werder and HSV want to get relegated together, so that they can continue their rivalry in the 2nd Bundesliga rofl

by BAYERN_MUNICH Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:34 pm

Dortmund fighting against Relegation Laughing

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:35 pm

Naw, Werder and HSV are even worse than Dortmund Laughing

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:40 pm

Frankfurt - Stuttgart is a riot... 1:0, then 1:3, then 4:3, now 4:4... Oh, moment, now it is 4:5

No, I'm not kidding rofl

by BAYERN_MUNICH Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:51 pm

Frankfurt - Stuttgart 4:5

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:55 pm

What a match!

by Art Morte Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:07 pm

Klopp out

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:55 pm

I'm so not amused by Roberto di Matteo. RDM totally ruins Schalke. They are only parking the bus and destroying the game against Leverkusen. The only way going forward are long balls by Ralf Fährmann. So PTB Hoofball it is... Boo! Hiss!

by VivaStPauli Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:28 pm

Bloody Stuttgart. Hate those Swabian bastards.

That being said - what's up with Dortmund? They were brilliant right up until they lost.

by zigra Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:30 pm

rwo power wrote:I'm so not amused by Roberto di Matteo. RDM totally ruins Schalke. They are only parking the bus and destroying the game against Leverkusen. The only way going forward are long balls by Ralf Fährmann. So PTB Hoofball it is... Boo! Hiss!

Lol. That's just what it sometimes looks like when a team from the bottom half plays against a top4 team.

by rwo power Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:37 pm

Actually Schalke played better when coached by Jens Keller. I still think that sacking Keller was a stupid move.

by zigra Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:41 pm

Sacking Keller was a good move but replacing him with RDM obviously was nonsense. Sack a clown and replace him with another one - only at Schalke I guess.

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