BVB 2014/15

----------------------------weidenfeller

piscek-----subotic-----hummels-----schmelzer

-------------------bender

kuba-----gündogan-----reus---------miki

-----------immobile



-------------------langarek

großkreutz--soktrais-----ginter------durm

---------------kehl/kirch

aubameyang---jojic----sahin- hofman (großkreutz)

-----------ramos

i  have to say this squad is excellent, the ginter deal isn`t done yet though

they also made a deal with evonik (the same what bayern did with adidas and audi), until 2025 evonik will splash over 300 million into dortmund, also rumours say that puma is on his way to become there next partner aswell

good news on Ilkay

he is with his team mates on the trainings camp in austria

Are they keeping Hummels?

i think so, i heard nothing

According to Kicker, BVB have signed Matthias Ginter, the highly rated 20 year old central defender part of the German WC winning squad. Apparently, BVB paid 10m for him.

Hummels' successor once / if Hummels decides to leave, don't think that it will happen this season though.

http://www.sport1.de/de/fussball/fussball_bundesliga/newspage_927555.html

Kagawa back to Dortmund

would be great, me thinks

Not sure if it'll be great, he was Moyesed up in Manchester.

He played slightly better under Moyes than under Ferguson to be fair

Xavier wrote:He played slightly better under Moyes than under Ferguson to be fair

What? how?

Pras_tama wrote:

Xavier wrote:He played slightly better under Moyes than under Ferguson to be fair

What? how?

Actuslly Xavier is right. If anyone is blamed for Kagawa time in Manchester its Ferguson - he brought him and then he didn't know how to utilize him. Moyes still didn't use him as "10", but at least played him narrower coming from left side and allowed to combine with forwards more.

Kehl has retired from captaincy. If Hummels is the next BVB captain, his chances to be Lahm's successor in the NT should increase, too.

stinger wrote:

Pras_tama wrote:

Xavier wrote:He played slightly better under Moyes than under Ferguson to be fair

What? how?

Actuslly Xavier is right. If anyone is blamed for Kagawa time in Manchester its Ferguson - he brought him and then he didn't know how to utilize him. Moyes still didn't use him as "10", but at least played him narrower coming from left side and allowed to combine with forwards more.

But Sir Alex also played him narrower coming from left side and allowed to combine with forwards

Hummels, Subotic, Sokratis, Ginter

The central defence of Dortmund is just ridiculous, strength in depth that even Bayern (or any other team I can think of right now) don't have on that position.

Is Sokratis any good? He was shite at Milan

He is very good. He has been excellent for Dortmund and was Greece's best player in the WC.

Classic Kloppo, telling an annoying fan shouting like an idiot while he is giving an interview to shut up...

http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/juergen-klopp/unterbricht-tv-interview-wegen-fan-37100104.bild.html

Kagawa is on his way to dortmund

and gündogan is nearly fit

If Gündogan gets even close to his pre-injury form, Dortmund will get an enormous boost of quality. Best Dortmund player before his injury and in that form, best Dortmund player again. And yes, that includes the likes of Reus, Götze or Lewandowski (back then).

Germany will welcome him with open arms, too.

The genius is back! Reus came back from that nasty injury that cost him the WC and immediately ran the show today, great goal and assist, MOTM as so often. Hope he stays in Dortmund for a few more years. Such a monster of a player.

Hope to see him in a Germany shirt next week, too. Even in that ridiculous German attacking midfield, he stands out.

Kagawa back to BVB is official.

http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/610912/artikel_kagawa-ist-wieder-ein-borusse.html


Wonder how long it'll take Klopp to get him back on track. Man United seems toxic for footballer careers these days.

Reus out for four months..

BVB must ♡♡♡♡♡ DFB. Only to be called huhrensohne by their captain..


What a country

Four weeks, not four months

Bottom of the league What a great team.

You gotta love teams like Dortmund. They are the spice to a boring league brew. Schalke may lough at them...but whats better: Win the league one year and nearly relegated the other year or foreveralways be the Aston Villa, Schalke 04 or Bayer Leverkusen?




Edit: To be fair to Leverkusen and Schalke, their 2nd places where some of the most exciting in history

TBF Villa won their CL final against Bayern..

Klopp has to go obviously.

The magic has gone, his idiotic approach doesnt work anymore, lets swap him and Arsene.

Antarion wrote:You gotta love teams like Dortmund. They are the spice to a boring league brew. Schalke may lough at them...but whats better: Win the league one year and nearly relegated the other year or foreveralways be the Aston Villa, Schalke 04 or Bayer Leverkusen?




Edit: To be fair to Leverkusen and Schalke, their 2nd places where some of the most exciting in history

To be fair to Dortmund, Leverkusen and Schalke also experienced huge collapses after their "exciting" 2nd place finishes in '01-'02 and '09-'10 respectively. Any idea why collapses like that are more common in the Bundesliga than in other parts?

wormshole wrote:Bottom of the league What a great team.

I'm not a Dortmund fan, but they've been decimated by injuries. Their back four is a collage all season. Nobody knows who'll be in midfield again because of injuries and they signed Immobile and Ramos to replace Lewandowski and strikers take some time to settle. Aubameyang is the focal point in attack but he's at his best on the wings to then make diagonals with his speed.

They can't field the same XI in back to back games. I still think they'll finish in the top four, but they'd better start winning now (they've got to dig in, injuries or not, and all of them rise up to the monumental challenge now). Can Klopp handle adversity? Surely he knows he's not gonna have Scottish refs to bail him out all the time.

Puro wrote:

Antarion wrote:You gotta love teams like Dortmund. They are the spice to a boring league brew. Schalke may lough at them...but whats better: Win the league one year and nearly relegated the other year or foreveralways be the Aston Villa, Schalke 04 or Bayer Leverkusen?




Edit: To be fair to Leverkusen and Schalke, their 2nd places where some of the most exciting in history

To be fair to Dortmund, Leverkusen and Schalke also experienced huge collapses after their "exciting" 2nd place finishes in '01-'02 and '09-'10 respectively. Any idea why collapses like that are more common in the Bundesliga than in other parts?

Well..there is Bayern, if you do well, they will eat you in the summer. They had this policy for ages, yet they were hardly more succesfull in the last 20 years then lets say Utd. Who dont have this policy, and compete with more powerfull clubs.

The other clubs should all leave and create an anti-Bayern league. Would be great, every year a new winner. Perhaps even Schalke will win it once.

Dortmund

I havent seen it due to the ban on Germany, but I read they lost again, considering, HSV and Bremen won...omg imagine the lol if they went down.