Bastian Schweinsteiger | Signed for MUFC - confirmed.

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Blackwidow said:
Bastian started to play for Bayern in 2002 when players like Kahn, Lizarazu, Scholl etc. were still playing for Bayern. A year after the CL win. He connects two different Bayern generations with each other and a lot of different times... - and connects different generations of fans. 13 years is a very long time.

Some just think that he might have stayed in a different time with a different system.

And - yes, there is Lahm and Badstuber. But the guys who somehow are seen as Bayern identity with their character and charisma are Schweinsteiger and Müller. Lahm is too "perfect" or flawless to get into the hearts.

All the international stars with flair are ok for a club and the fans and people for sure enjoy them. But - the own guys you follow from the time they are "toddlers in the game" who make it are still something special.
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I think losing Schweinsteiger is like Liverpool losing Gerrard, or the void left by Bryan Robson. He's a roy-of-the-rovers type, can do just about anything on the pitch and is a real leader, dragging his team back into games like he did against us a few years back. Everyone loves an all round player who really puts himself about and puts his body on the line.

As my first post in the mains, I just want to say to my favourite player in football right now: Welcome to Manchester Bastian, you are my absolute dream signing.
 
Reading some of the earlier posts in this thread and some people thought £7.5m is too expensive for this guy! I really don't understand how people have forgotten how good he is
 
Weird how it's such a big deal in Germany. Understandable, since he's a legend for club and country, but it seems so strange to see so much coverage of a player moving to us. :drool:
 
worldinmotion66 said:
I think losing Schweinsteiger is like Liverpool losing Gerrard, or the void left by Bryan Robson. He's a roy-of-the-rovers type, can do just about anything on the pitch and is a real leader, dragging his team back into games like he did against us a few years back. Everyone loves an all round player who really puts himself about and puts his body on the line.

As my first post in the mains, I just want to say to my favourite player in football right now: Welcome to Manchester Bastian, you are my absolute dream signing.
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I think it is not just about the pitch. Bayern has still a lot of fabulous players there.

But the people really have followed Bastian from the start. The young player that coloured his hair or even his fingernails, was caught in the night by the security when he showed his "cousin" the jacuzzi, did a lot of stupid little things. Hoeneß told that he knew whenever Bastian asked to eat lunch with him that he had to get him out of little trouble with press etc. There were the boyband times with Poldi for Germany and Bayern in the summer fairy tale of 2006. And later the more "adult" version of him. Fans virtually saw him growing up...

He was not always the "great" player - but he show glimpses of it. There were a lot ups and downs. He was too slow for the wings - and then van Gaal came and brought him into midfield and made a restart of his career.

Raptori said:
Weird how it's such a big deal in Germany. Understandable, since he's a legend for club and country, but it seems so strange to see so much coverage of a player moving to us. :drool:
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He is the captain of the World Champion...
 
Blackwidow said:
I think it is not just about the pitch. Bayern has still a lot of fabulous players there.

But the people really have followed Bastian from the start. The young player that coloured his hair or even his fingernails, was caught in the night by the security when he showed his "cousin" the jacuzzi, did a lot of stupid little things. Hoeneß told that he knew whenever Bastian asked to eat lunch with him that he had to get him out of little trouble with press etc. There were the boyband times with Poldi for Germany and Bayern in the summer fairy tale of 2006. And later the more "adult" version of him. Fans virtually saw him growing up...

He was not always the "great" player - but he show glimpses of it. There were a lot ups and downs. He was too slow for the wings - and then van Gaal came and brought him into midfield and made a restart of his career.



He is the captain of the World Champion...
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What would you say his best position is these days? I was thinking he was going to play as the "6" at United, but then I read on some Bayern forum that he doesn't play well there. On the other hand I also read that he doesn't combine well with Alonso with him as "6" and Basti as "8", so I'm a bit confused as to what his best role would be.
 
Iron Stove said:
What would you say his best position is these days? I was thinking he was going to play as the "6" at United, but then I read on some Bayern forum that he doesn't play well there. On the other hand I also read that he doesn't combine well with Alonso with him as "6" and Basti as "8", so I'm a bit confused as to what his best role would be.
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It has to do with the way they interpret their position. Both are used to be the boss and command play.
Bastian is good on a 6/8 combined with different players - e.g. van Bommel, Khedira even behind a much more offensive player. He can play the 8 in front of a more defensive 6 like Gustavo or Martinez, too. Alonso just is special somehow because both are the boss...

The company car is a downgrade for him... Before it was a big Audi...

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He has left his at the Säbener Street yesterday.
 
Blackwidow said:
It has to do with the way they interpret their position. Both are used to be the boss and command play.
Bastian is good on a 6/8 combined with different players - e.g. van Bommel, Khedira even behind a much more offensive player. He can play the 8 in front of a more defensive 6 like Gustavo or Martinez, too. Alonso just is special somehow because both are the boss...

The company car is a downgrade for him... Before it was a big Audi...
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Thanks! It's always great to hear the opinion of fans who has watched the player week in week out.

Remains to be seen how well he would do together with Carrick who usually pulls the strings for us or if we'll have more success playing just one of them at a time.
 
According to that flight tracker he's soon going to fly over where I live. I'll keep an eye out :lol:
 
Raptori said:
Weird how it's such a big deal in Germany. Understandable, since he's a legend for club and country, but it seems so strange to see so much coverage of a player moving to us. :drool:
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It would be like Rooney leaving us, after having just won the World Cup for England. The media went into a frenzy just at him threatening to leave.
 
Cassidy said:
I think Pep has helped in Bastis decision to leave tbh, just my opinion though
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I think it seems to be the case.

Early days but this might be the beginning of the end for Pep at FCB. Things haven't seemed as rosy as they try to paint it for a while over there, and being (rightly or wrongly) blamed for the loss of Mr. Bayern Munich wont help at all.
 
No other aircrafts are close to landing, they pulled out the red carpet for him!
 
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