Bundesliga, DFB Cup, and other Bundesliga business 2014/2015

My god, Schalke is sooo poor :lol:

The thought that even in such an overall horrible season we might have a shot at finishing above them and even potentially denying them European football is glorious.

Gotta love me a proper meltdown in the blue camp.
 
Surely they have to fire Di Matteo now? Most likely they keep him over the summer and fire him after a shit start to the new season though :lol:
 
Thanks to Schalke and Dortmund having poor seasons City are supposed to be guaranteed to be in the second pot for the CL group stages next season.
 
schalalalalala schalke. :lol: You really have to put in effort to play that dull/bad with those players. They are in danger of missing European football.
I think they'll get at least the 7th place and not because they're good enough.....but i think Bremen will lose one of their last two matches (against Mönchengladbach and Dortmund) and i can't see two wins for Hoffenheim.
Surely they have to fire Di Matteo now? Most likely they keep him over the summer and fire him after a shit start to the new season though :lol:
But to sack Di Matteo after just 8 months must be the end for Heldt then too.
Thanks to Schalke and Dortmund having poor seasons City are supposed to be guaranteed to be in the second pot for the CL group stages next season.
I still can see a group with Barca, Roma and Wolfsburg for Manchester City :)
 
I think they'll get at least the 7th place and not because they're good enough.....but i think Bremen will lose one of their last two matches (against Mönchengladbach and Dortmund) and i can't see two wins for Hoffenheim.

But to sack Di Matteo after just 8 months must be the end for Heldt then too.

I still can see a group with Barca, Roma and Wolfsburg for Manchester City :)

A group of Barca, Roma and Wolfsburg would be fine. We've had Dortmund, Ajax and Madrid before. Anything seems acceptable after that.
 


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Don't they have contracts for next year? I think Boateng has one more year left and Sam just joined them last summer, so he probably has 3 or 4 years left on his contract. Bunch of idiots.
 
Has Boateng played much for them? Never understood how he even played for Milan, and they sold him pretty swiftly after securing CL football a couple seasons ago.
 


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Don't they have contracts for next year? I think Boateng has one more year left and Sam just joined them last summer, so he probably has 3 or 4 years left on his contract. Bunch of idiots.


Really odd given that Sam has barely played this season. Full of injuries. I guess they're cutting the wage bill?
 
Surely they need to have breached their contract to be released, unless it was by mutual agreement?
 
What the hell happened at Schalke??
Only 1 win in 8 league games, missed CL qualification, in danger to miss out on EL, they might even finish behind Dortmund. The players don't seem to care and the manager and director of football try to make a statement by kicking two of the laziest and most arrogant players out.
 
Really odd given that Sam has barely played this season. Full of injuries. I guess they're cutting the wage bill?
Surely they still have to pay their wages unless the players sign somewhere else? It's not that easy to get rid of big earners who don't give a feck in training and during games.
 
Only 1 win in 8 league games, missed CL qualification, in danger to miss out on EL, they might even finish behind Dortmund. The players don't seem to care and the manager and director of football try to make a statement by kicking two of the laziest and most arrogant players out.

Sams just joined them and had problems with fitness all season. Can hardly call an injured player lazy. :p

I think its wage cutting.
 
Sams just joined them and had problems with fitness all season. Can hardly call an injured player lazy. :p

I think its wage cutting.
I doubt he would have been kicked out if he showed a great attitude during rehabiliation and training though. Makes no sense. And like I said, there's no wage cutting unless the players agree. They could have just sold Sam in the summer without kicking him out for the last 2 games of the season, if he didn't cause problems in the dressing room.
 
This kind if stuff is the one real reason why nobody can keep up with Bayern anymore... bunch of clowns. :lol:
 
I doubt he would have been kicked out if he showed a great attitude during rehabiliation and training though. Makes no sense. And like I said, there's no wage cutting unless the players agree. They could have just sold Sam in the summer without kicking him out for the last 2 games of the season, if he didn't cause problems in the dressing room.
nobody would ever buy Sam. He is on something like 3,5m/y (for 3 more years?). He isn´t even worth 1/2 of that. Schalke´s annual implosion is always great. Once a year they push the meltdown button.
 
nobody would ever buy Sam. He is on something like 3,5m/y (for 3 more years?). He isn´t even worth 1/2 of that. Schalke´s annual implosion is always great. Once a year they push the meltdown button.

Two-three good months of overperforming in a system that matched to him made him to be hyped beyond his quality...

I remember that a lot thought he was a steal...
 
nobody would ever buy Sam. He is on something like 3,5m/y (for 3 more years?). He isn´t even worth 1/2 of that. Schalke´s annual implosion is always great. Once a year they push the meltdown button.

Still they could've hoped to sell him to a club like Hamburg or to a foreign club and maybe split wages, but looks like they'd rather shoot themselves in the foot financially so Heldt can have a scapegoat (who ironcially turn out to be his biggest singings of the past two summers) I don't know how he keeps getting away with it.
 
Darmstadt 1-0 up in Karlsruhe, could be a big, big step towards promotion for them.

And Darmstadt win it. Great weekend for them. Table looks like this with 2 games to go:

1 Ingolstadt 60
2 Darmstadt 56
3 Kaiserslautern 54
4 Karlsruhe 52
5 Braunschweig 50
 
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Darmstadt 1-0 up in Karlsruhe, could be a big, big step towards promotion for them.

And Darmstadt win it. Great weekend for them. Table looks like this with 2 games to go:

1 Ingolstadt 60
2 Darmstadt 56
3 Kaiserslautern 54
4 Karlsruhe 52
5 Braunschweig 50

As much as I like a good underdog story, I can´t help but think of Darmstadt as Paderborn 2.0, which are already doing better than I anticipated (partly because so many big clubs struggled this season). Their stadium is tiny for Bundesliga standarts and their fan base is not that much bigger, which is logical given their direct competition for fans with the established Bundesliga clubs Frankfurt and Mainz. But who knows, same things were said about Freiburg, Augsburg and before mentioned Mainz...

Substainability should not be a problem of Ingolstadt, which would be the next club bankrolled by a big German car company (AUDI, which is basically Volkswagen). They went into the season with one of the top budgets of the 2nd Bundesliga, equivalent to a small Bundesliga club. They actually plan to double that for their first Bundesliga season, which would put them firmly in the higher midfield of the league, above the likes of Frankfurt, Bremen and Hanover. Fun fact: their budget of 45 Mil. € would nearly be the one of Borussia Dortmund´s league winning season in 2010/2011. Quite an accomplishment for a club with 1.000 members (Dortmund had around 100.000 by that time) and a massive stadium capacity of 15.000, which they managed to fill a grand total of two times in the season. Gotta love me a good old plastique club.

I really hope that Kaiserslautern pulls through either directly or via the relegation. Great stadium and classy fans.
 
Darmstadt 1-0 up in Karlsruhe, could be a big, big step towards promotion for them.

And Darmstadt win it. Great weekend for them. Table looks like this with 2 games to go:

1 Ingolstadt 60
2 Darmstadt 56
3 Kaiserslautern 54
4 Karlsruhe 52
5 Braunschweig 50
It seems no one wants to go up....last weekend only Darmstadt & Braunschweig have won and on this weekend only Darmstadt have won (The other four clubs have all lost).

And the relegation battle in the league is fascinating too.

Will 1860 Munich are staying in the Allianz Arena if they are going down??
 
Will 1860 Munich are staying in the Allianz Arena if they are going down??

We all hope not. That would mean red seats and maybe even a "Mia san mia" or the emblem with coloured seats in the Arena like the "Mes que un club" in Barcelona.
As long they stay in the Arena the seats have to stay neutral...
 
No way that they continue to play in the Allianz, when they go down. I wouldn´t be surprised if they go bust after relegation, but regardless of whats going to happen, they will leave our Arena. The Gründwalder Stadium is approved for the 3rd league.
 
Does anyone know why there aren't any Bundesliga games on BT Sport/ESPN this weekend?
Maybe because all games are played simultaneously tomorrow at 14:30? There are no games on Friday and Sunday, so maybe it doesn't fit in their schedule?
 
Maybe because all games are played simultaneously tomorrow at 14:30? There are no games on Friday and Sunday, so maybe it doesn't fit in their schedule?

Isn't there the "no football on Saturday 3:00 p.m."-rule?
 
Maybe because all games are played simultaneously tomorrow at 14:30? There are no games on Friday and Sunday, so maybe it doesn't fit in their schedule?

Ah, I didn't know that. I thought there were 2 game weeks left though?
 
Ah, I didn't know that. I thought there were 2 game weeks left though?
On the last 2 matchdays, the games are played simultaneously in the Bundesliga, not just on the last one like in most other leagues.
 
As much as I like a good underdog story, I can´t help but think of Darmstadt as Paderborn 2.0, which are already doing better than I anticipated (partly because so many big clubs struggled this season). Their stadium is tiny for Bundesliga standarts and their fan base is not that much bigger, which is logical given their direct competition for fans with the established Bundesliga clubs Frankfurt and Mainz. But who knows, same things were said about Freiburg, Augsburg and before mentioned Mainz...

Substainability should not be a problem of Ingolstadt, which would be the next club bankrolled by a big German car company (AUDI, which is basically Volkswagen). They went into the season with one of the top budgets of the 2nd Bundesliga, equivalent to a small Bundesliga club. They actually plan to double that for their first Bundesliga season, which would put them firmly in the higher midfield of the league, above the likes of Frankfurt, Bremen and Hanover. Fun fact: their budget of 45 Mil. € would nearly be the one of Borussia Dortmund´s league winning season in 2010/2011. Quite an accomplishment for a club with 1.000 members (Dortmund had around 100.000 by that time) and a massive stadium capacity of 15.000, which they managed to fill a grand total of two times in the season. Gotta love me a good old plastique club.

I really hope that Kaiserslautern pulls through either directly or via the relegation. Great stadium and classy fans.
I want both Darmstadt and Lautern to get promoted. A couple more nearby away games to go to would be pretty nice.

Classy fans is a bit of a stretch though.
 
Gotcha. Do you think Stuttgart will manage to stay up?
They have a huge game against HSV tomorrow. If they win that, they'll probably stay up; lose it and they're pretty much in the second division.

I'd like them to win, but Hamburg are just so bad at getting relegated that I don't think it will work out.
 
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They have a huge game against HSV tomorrow. If they win that, they'll probably stay up; lose it and they're pretty much in the second division.

I'd like them to win, but Hamburg are just so bad at getting relegated that I don't think it will work out.

Are Stuttgart at home? They played well in their last game so maybe they can ride off the momentum.
 
I want both Darmstadt and Lautern to get promoted. A couple more nearby away games to go to would be pretty nice.

Classy fans is a bit of a stretch though.

Classy and Kaiserslautern fans... Made me laugh...

An awful set of fans but yes, they are very passionate... :cool: