Magic Lamps

6m euros Net of taxes it’s more like 10m Euros gross which is more like 190k euros gross pw. Rüdigers Agent is a small time firm called fsb, they might well have leaked something to Bild to push his negotiation position, would not be the first time. Would call it a plausible rumour.

Apparently Rüdiger is pissed that we offered Kounde wages of 6m net of taxes now he want more than that himself. The dwarf is already casting his tiny shadow ahead.

Would make our victory more famous tho if we beat the most successful teams from the other continents on our way as opposed to some minnows who scraped there by luck. We will be huge favourites anyway. We beat the best teams of England and Spain for winning CL, the best of Africa, Asia and Americas should be a walk in the park if we manage to replicate the standard we set there. On normal form we should outlast all of them, the problem as I repeatedly stated is the jetlag which also was an issue in 2012. But this time we have a way younger and deeper squad so I think we should be able to atleast do better. One more challenge will be the shitty fifa refs who usually favour the underdogs. In 2012 they chalked off a perfectly legit Torres goal and made some dubious pen decisions. Slightly more relaxed. Middle east is at least closer for us than it is for the Brazilians, albeit the KSA/Egypt teams basically have home advantage.

Sad thing, despite his well-taken goal, he still looks not even a bit more confident than he did before. Really need him to bring his A-game to unlock City. They will be out to take revenge.

We should definitely not lose him for 3m wage difference but I could imagine there is more in there. I can see Rüdiger going for a new challenge. Lacroix is a very similar player physically and style-wise but also a lot more accomplished than Rüdiger was at that age. IMO he is the most promising non-German young centre back i have seen in Bundesliga for quite some time maybe since Kompany. If we really are primed to lose rüdiger in summer, we should push for Lacroix in winter hard to give him time to acclimatize.

So slow, no pace. City will have a field day with their high line We need a fast player to unlock them. I hate playing with all three Jorginho, Alonso and Azpi.... so little speed to break their lines. Timo has to play whether we like it or not.

Can't believe how clueless he is. I was so pushing for this move. Deeply disappointed. On paper he has got everything. But some Spanish players just become bambi on ice when you take them out of a spanish team. At least he did not make any cataclysmic mistakes this time, just was anonymous. Even RLC looked better. Defensively just as shit but at least RLC is able to exert his trademark dynamic bursts through midfield again whilst saul seems to have forgotten everything he used to be good at.

Lampard was ruthless with him when Kepa clearly is a guy who needs to feel appreciated not pressurized But i think blamign the coach for all those stupid errors is a bridge too far. Perosnal reasons probably played a bigger part Glad he is back to form. Maybe we can still recover some of his value. But no way in hell the long term plan can be having the most expensive keeper in the world riding the bench on 150kpw for the remainder of his contract.

Tell me about it. However, the only player who blew it was Oli kahn with that fumble (albeit he played with a broken thumb) but you can not really blame our terrible squad back then for blowing it, they were out of their depth. Just scraping past inferior teams like Paraguay, USA and SKorea on the way to the final. Our only real way to win that final would have been pens As a small remedy, Ballack at least got German footballer of the year in 2002

If we win vs them for the 4th time in a row, it means we permanently got into their head and really would be title favourites. This time I think, Pep will not come up with anything fancy tho. He will play Jesus and Rodri where they belong. We will have to go through some serious shit this time to best them. Esp if Mendy is out. It will be difficult to stretch and go in behind City tho with our current wing back pairing of Alonso and Azpi due to their lack of pace. I really hope Tt plays at least James. mount was terrible again today and should not play I would probably go for ----------------Mendy/Kepa----------- -----Azpi---------Thiago---------Toni--- RJ---------Kante--------Kova------Alonso -------Kai-------------------Timo-------- -------------------Rom----------------------- will be interesting to see how Rom deals with their more skilled but physically inferior defenders.

Impressive. That badge looks like it was designed before the Saxon invasion of England lol

He was better than Saul and Mount, when he came on but let's not get ahead of ourselves. If Kovacic would have turned in this performance we would have rated it as average. Guy is still far away from the first team. He is a quality squad option tho.

Ofc liverpool get another free pass They small teams have evaporated quickly. Anyway, we made hard work of this. But we built a habit of scraping through when playing poorly. True winner's instinct. We should not make a habit out of relying on it tho.

We are slowly getting better at this .

If we crash out we can at least play a relaxed cwc

Oh fk off pens again

The ref is not helping

Who is tut supposed to bring in for CHO? Azpi? We got both our rwbs on the pitch that is why we wanted Hakimi

Our future lol

Ziyech needs to be sold. whenever he strings two good games together he gets injured and returns as a wreck for months

RLC is better than Mount kn current form goddamn

Mount has to score that his finishing is crap

Srr , Ziyech, and Saul are just pathetic

Ziyech is just terrible . trev immaculate

Archer has been our best defender so far.