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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 16:38:09 GMT
Seen ex-Villarreal magician Marcelino being linked with the vacant Leverkusen position. It would be very un-German to go foreign other than the neighbouring nations, but he'd be a good choice imo.
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Post by bluerisk on Mar 5, 2017 22:40:54 GMT
Seen ex-Villarreal magician Marcelino being linked with the vacant Leverkusen position. It would be very un-German to go foreign other than the neighbouring nations, but he'd be a good choice imo. Trappatoni, this guy who run Schalke after he won the CL with Chelsea, Ancelotti...this Spanish guy who is now in England. |
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Post by mandragora on Mar 6, 2017 7:44:30 GMT
You want to get rid of Ancelotti already?
Pep would be interesting, for once with a team that isn't a favorite and a club that doesn't have unlimited budget.
Reports are they'll present a temporary solution until summer break today.
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Post by mandragora on Mar 6, 2017 10:45:29 GMT
Tayfun Korkut will be Leverkusen's head coach until the end of the season.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 12:29:51 GMT
Tayfun Korkut??? They've pulled a 'Bob Bradley' as an interim appointment. If that's the best Voller and Schade could come up with, they might as well have gone with Thomas Schaaf!
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Post by mandragora on Mar 6, 2017 13:09:40 GMT
Schaaf and Korkut have very little in common. Schaaf's approach is outdated and his teams have always had problems with defensive stability. Korkut is 42, a modern coach with a clear focus on defensive stability. He had a poor record at Hannover and Kaiserslautern, but it's not like they've improved after he left.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 13:15:44 GMT
was never going to happen but was quietly hoping for Völler to be the interim coach. love his passion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 13:23:00 GMT
Was under the impression Leverkusen were a big club, certainly on paper, that squad would have most coaches walking from their European outposts to the BayerArena to get a chance to improve things, and then you go with a guy who wasn't even good enough for Hannover or Kaiserslautern?
Bizarre and smacks off a knee-jerk reaction made by the top brass to save themselves.
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Post by Pangolin on Mar 6, 2017 13:49:11 GMT
Tongue in cheek comment regarding Großkreutz. There was an article in the Guardian regarding his 'altercation' and subsequent termination of contract with immediate effect from VFB Stuttgart. Well, the "altercation" was the innocuous part of the problem. He went to a mardi-gras party with a bunch of minors, including some youth players from the VfB Stuttgart boarding school, spent like four thousand EUR at a Stuttgart discotheque, then went all drunk to the Stuttgart red light district and apparently took them to a brothel. Thereafter they got into a brawl in the streets at 2:15 o'clock in the morning. VfB Stuttgart take pride in their youth academy and attempt to recruit talent from all over the world. Not all parents fancy their kids being taken on a booze-cruise complete with a visit to a brothel by a senior player, and then getting beaten up in the streets in the middle of the night. Maybe he should go to Japan like Podolski. |
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Post by mandragora on Mar 11, 2017 8:54:48 GMT
It's amazing how it doesn't seem to matter who's at the sideline or who's on the pitch, Leverkusen manage to bottle it. 1-1 against basement boys Bremen at home, after giving away a lead again, and on top of it Toprak missed a penalty with a dreadful effort in the last minute.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 10:45:14 GMT
It's amazing how it doesn't seem to matter who's at the sideline or who's on the pitch, Leverkusen manage to bottle it. 1-1 against basement boys Bremen at home, after giving away a lead again, and on top of it Toprak missed a penalty with a dreadful effort in the last minute. Well Bremen had come into the game off three straight victories (trying to recall a season where that's happened..it's been a while) and though missing their best player last night and Leverkusen adopting a new Darmstadt approach to things, a point for Tayfun 'Bob Bradley' Korkut was a decent start, though puzzling how Dortmund bound Ömer Toprak is handed the responsibility of injury time penalty. Nationality bias?? |
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Post by mandragora on Mar 11, 2017 12:27:41 GMT
A better question would be why Toprak was put in penalty charge in the first place, given Volland, Kießling and Mehmedi were on the pitch. Even Kai Havertz would have been a better candidate.
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Post by mandragora on Mar 14, 2017 17:49:19 GMT
DFB Cup QF on - Sportfreunde Lotte vs Borussia Dortmund (the game that was postponed due to heavy snowing). Lotte the better team so far  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 14, 2017 20:21:26 GMT
DFB Cup QF on - Sportfreunde Lotte vs Borussia Dortmund (the game that was postponed due to heavy snowing). Lotte the better team so far Dortmund won 3-0 alas. |
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Post by nogbad on Mar 14, 2017 21:47:40 GMT
The Lotte-Dortmund game wasn't a thriller, but was worth watching. Dortmund stepped up a gear in the second half, as they needed to do.
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Post by mandragora on Mar 17, 2017 10:51:01 GMT
Germany squad vs England and Azerbaijan:
Timo Werner called up for the first time. Can, Weigl, Sané, Brandt, Süle, Kimmich also in.
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Post by mandragora on Mar 17, 2017 11:31:36 GMT
U21 squad vs England and Portugal:
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 17, 2017 12:08:12 GMT
Was there much in the German papers about Clattenburg's penalty decision last night? Consensus here is that he made a mistake.
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Post by mandragora on Mar 17, 2017 12:18:10 GMT
Not really. Hecking made it a point on Sky NOT to make a drama of it, saying that it wasn't a penalty but Gladbach had a hand goal wrongly allowed against Ingolstadt, and you have to live with those things.
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Post by MrFurious on Mar 18, 2017 16:26:24 GMT
Leipzig on a downward spiral.
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