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Schweinsteiger is a technically gifted player and a very clever footballer.
People here have forgotten how good he is, I believe the same is true for Schneiderlin. This mess of a season isn't a fair metric to judge them on, I feel.
Mourinho will get the best out of him and schneiderlin next season.
People here have forgotten how good he is, I believe the same is true for Schneiderlin. This mess of a season isn't a fair metric to judge them on, I feel.
Mourinho will get the best out of him and schneiderlin next season.
Not sure about Schneiderlin but Schweinsteiger is still a class player and Mourinho is a fan of him. If he suffers less injuries next season then he will still have an important role to play for us.
I could see Carrick getting a 1 year extension to allow for transition then swapping with Basti a lot to control play when needed.
Daniel Taylor's latest, had this interesting bit: "Schweinsteiger has spent large parts of the season injured and his tendency to return to Germany, flying in and out for United’s matches, has gone down badly, to say the least."
Never heard about that, but not good if it's true.
Never heard about that, but not good if it's true.
I think it's more misery for him next year. Not sure what type of football we will play next year, but i doubt Mourinho would want him. And this "special treatment", Germany visits thing does not surprise me a bit.
The main thing is he is so far gone, he simply can't play the combative, box-to-box CM we need. And as a DM he can still work on international level with Germany, maybe. But i PL he is just to weak.
The main thing is he is so far gone, he simply can't play the combative, box-to-box CM we need. And as a DM he can still work on international level with Germany, maybe. But i PL he is just to weak.
I really don't get the problem. He's injured. He probably has specialists he likes to use in Germany. At least he's coming in for our games. I bet Luke Shaw spent a lot of time with his family and friends when he couldn't train, the only difference is that it was in England.
It's Müller-Wohlfahrt.
If he can stay fit Mourinho will use him a lot.
I'd expect a 4-3-3 with Bastian, Rooney and Schneiderlin being the 3 for majority of games, excluding any new signings we will probably make.
I'd expect a 4-3-3 with Bastian, Rooney and Schneiderlin being the 3 for majority of games, excluding any new signings we will probably make.
That would be an absolute disaster.
We should sell him if we can. Nobody will take his massive wages on though.
MLS?
He's been good when he's played, see how Jose takes to him in pre season.
Name 3-4 matches when he played really good?
The only game i can name is Swansea home, i can't remember any other game when he was above average. He scored an important goal against Watford for example, but his general play in that match was piss-poor.
I think even Fellaini had a much better season than Bastian did.
Would be interesting to see him play for a better manager. Can't be playing 2 deep holding mids again though. That was awful scenes, however "solid" it made us
The only concerns are Schweinsteiger's fitness. (Seems like he will be fit for the Euros and starts team training this week)
There is no doubt that Mou wants that fit Schweinsteiger - he openly courted him since 2010, had e.g an hour long private talk with him in the German team hotel in Russia during the Euros 2012, told him that he is his after the CL 2010 and praised him in all of his comments during the World Cup 2014.
He had the whole year to get fit and he did not and you say that he will miraculously be fit next one. That's just dreaming. Maybe he will even have a good Euro, but what then he will go on holiday and come August fit he will be no more.
That was 6 years ago, Bastian is not even a half of the player he was back then. Last season proved it beyond any reasonable doubt. And Mourinho wanted him in Spain. That makes sense because in Spain the game is way slower, more technical and tactical, in PL you need to be fit, i mean "fit" in every sense of the world, like has stamina and so on. In most of our games Schweini lasted no more than 50-60 minutes. And not only in August, this was going on well into the season.
Can't believe he's been included in Germany's squad for the Euros having not played for us for months - is this what he's been saving himself for?
No doubt he'll get injured again
No doubt he'll get injured again
Is he even fit?
Hopefully he has a good tournament if he is, I'd like him to impress because I believe he has something to offer us still.
Hopefully he has a good tournament if he is, I'd like him to impress because I believe he has something to offer us still.
No, he's not, they just value good players more than we do.
It's a bit weird that Löw chose to drop Reus from national team while keeping Schweini citing permanent injury problems, when from what I gather Dortmund's winger hasn't been injured since January. After checking out their final squad for tournament I guess it all points towards 3-5-2 tactics that Germans will deploy in France.
Khedira said something of the sort "He can barely run straight at the moment" about Reus
Or don't mind their players being overweight.
Transfermarkt says it's adductor problems. In past he needed from 3 to 16 days to recover from them, but it looks like this time it's more serious. But I will repeat 3-5-2 is not a system that rewards wingers and that may have played a part in Löw's reasoning.
Not convinced by that. Everytime Löw used the 3-5-2, he played Rudy as the right wingback and he sent him home as well. I don't think we have any player in the squad who really fits the right wingback position now. We still have many wingers in the team and Reus would have been a great choice to play as one of the two forwards in a 3-5-2 as well. Reus went home because he's struggling with his injury and the medical staff didn't believe he'd be fit enough to have a positive impact in the tournament. Don't think there's more to it than that.
We still have Draxler, Schürrle, Sane in the squad as wingers and Özil, Götze and Müller also played often wide in the World Cup. I think that he sent Rudy home (thank god for that) is a bigger sign against the 3-5-2 than that Reus missed out again.
Your arguments seem on the money, but aren't Schürrle and Sane the only proper wingers in that squad(Bellarabi and Brandt got shot alongside Reus). Also who's going to play as fullbacks? I can only see a pot consisting of Can, Hoewedes and Hector. That's quite a small group going into tournament when at the same time there's big pack of defenders that primarily play as centre halves.
Apart from Reus injury, You have to factor in the fact that Schweiny will be very vocal and a leader in the dressing room, Something that cannot be understated.
Hector/Höwedes leftback and Can/Kimmich rightback. The fullback position is a problem for us already, but it's even worse once we move to a 3-5-2, where the wingbacks have even more responsibility than in a 433 or 4231. None of our wingers is good enough defensively to move back to a wingback position and none of our fullback options offers enough going forward to rely on him alone on the wing.
Not sure what this has to do with Schweinsteiger by the way? Maybe we should move that discussion to the Germany thread in the Euro forum.
They don't care about as long as he plays well.
One discussed topic led to another and Schweinsteiger got left miles behind in the loo at a gas station... I'll proceed to the euro thread.
I can imagine Jose be keeping a close eye on Schweinsteiger in the Euro's, providing he plays.
He's still got the ability to control a game, and with the right partner beside him, I wouldn't mind seeing Schweinstieger in the same role as Fabregas.
He's still got the ability to control a game, and with the right partner beside him, I wouldn't mind seeing Schweinstieger in the same role as Fabregas.
He has not been saving himself - he was injured.
He is in team training since today again. They told that he is further with his training etc. than he was in the World Cup.
Can't wait to see him next season under a proper manager.
How the feck can someone call that overweight?
If that's overweight, I want to be overweight.
You've got a weird definition of overweight.
Reminds me when people kept calling Shaw overweight.
always wondered myself
i guess everyone has to look like di maria or something. Its also a common misconception that low body fat is synonymous with fitness. Its quite far from the truth. You can be "overweight" and also be very fit and vice versaI'd be very surprised if Mourinho didn't use him.
Mourinho is Schweinsteiger fan since 2010. After the CL final he told to Schweinsteiger openly that he is going to get him... But Schweinsteiger then made a new contract with Bayern.
During the Euros 2012 Mourinho was coming to the hotel in Lwiw and was talking with him for an hour.
And he was full of praise for him during the World Cup.
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