Magath to Schalke

http://www.welt.de/sport/fussball/article3649711/Felix-Magath-geht-offenbar-zu-Schalke-04.html

as manager and sports director



if THAT is true, and it's a media rumour so far, then Schalke could SERIOUSLY challenge Bayern under Dummenigge FOR YEARS TO COME

we could get a SECOND FORCE at the TOP

why should he go

wolfsburg has a lot more money and more potenzial

Stupid Schalke : Buskens & Mulder were doing great for the *second* time....and all the players wanted to continue with them

Büskens gave a bizarre interview to Kicker saying that he would not really mind managing a youth side

he seems to be afraid that one day his two daughters open up the paper and see the headline "Büskens RAUS", he said

so far , he has done brilliantly, but he may not have to stomach for the rough stuff, of which there is A LOT at Schalke

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Wolfsburg are richer but Schalke are FAR BIGGER

if he wins the title with Schalke he will become IMMORTAL

wahre G

by the way

Scholl is the NEW U-23 Manager at Bayern until the end of the season

Brilliant timing of the news.

I guess, this will very much disturb the peace at Wolfsburg and most likely cost them the Meisterschaft in the end.

Anyway. What's more import: who's the whistleblower?

Cui bono?

Bayern or Stuttgart?

I'd say Hoeneß

Axeslammer wrote:Stupid Schalke : Buskens & Mulder were doing great for the *second* time....and all the players wanted to continue with them

yesterday's 5:2 against Inter was pretty much MAGATH's VICTORY

although, kudos to Rangnick for NOT fucking it up

what blows your mind though, is how Magath has managed to built a CL challenging SIDE without ANY mony to spend



we would need chrissi now to tell us how much yesterday's starting 11 cost

but it must have been PEANUTS

Neuer: Schalke youth

Höwedes: Schalke youth

Matip: a kid given his first pro game by Magath

Sarpei: Bundesliga reject revived by Magath

Uchida: unknown Japanese bought for virtually nothing

Papadoupolos: Greek teen brought in for a pittance

Jurado: cost A LOT, over 13 million, me thinks

Baumjohann: Bayern reject who cost virtually nothing

Farfan: don't know, how much was he ??

Raul: free transfer, widely considered to be PAST IT

Edu: Brazilian nobody, rescued from Korean obscurity by Magath; probably for a pittance

Schmitz: Schalke teenager from own youth

Draxler: Schalke youth, fourth youngest Bundesliga player ever

Karimi: Iranian retiree



take Jurado out of this team, and it would have cost NOT MORE than a 2. Bundesliga side



and most "pundits" would have expected this side to fight vs relegation



if you add Mezte ( on a free transfer)

KLUGE: another no-name turned SENSATION

the only odd one out (other than Jurado) is Huntelaar , who was quite pricey

but Dutch internationals ALWAYS have high resale values irrespective of performance levels

so no losses were to be expected here

still

WHICH other manager in the WORLD

could have converted the ABOVE LOT into REAL CL CONTENDERS ?



Magath is a GOD



the only thing that makes me a tad nervous is that the players/manager looked positively STUNNED

AFTER the game

almost depressed

http://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussball/championsleague/saison2010-2011/viertelfinale/inter-mailand-schalke-04/inter-schalke-nachbericht.html



the return leg could become VERY interesting IF Inter score EARLY

still

three cheers to arguably the greatest MANAGER in the WORLD right now

Felix MAGATH

haha

it's also funny to see all those BAYERN fans now congratulating the otherwise HATED Schalke for kicking out the even more HATED Inter



the whole Schweini vs Materrazi saga has left Bayern fans SEEKING revenge via Magath's Schalke



and the funny thing is

Hoeness SACKED Magath and repeatedly BELITTLED Rangnick but greenlit the van Gaal and Klinsi deals



good summary, why this is still very much Magath's triumph

http://sportbild.bild.de/SPORT/fussball/champions-league/2011/04/06/so-viel-magath-steckt-in-schalkes/wunder-von-mailand.html

all sorts of interviews with Schalke players do indeed now seem to suggest that Magath has a rather unusual method of

LEADING and interacting with his players

some of the stuff is hard-core MOBBING

the worst hit seems to have been Albert Streit

the lad is now complaining that ALL the players could pick a top of the range VW, as part of the sponsors package

he was the only one who was merely given a choice between picking a Polo and a Golf

anyway

my man Jermaine Jones positively HATES Magath

Farfan does not like the disciplinarian either ( when he arrived DAYS late after the summer break, Magath forced him to pay a 100.000 Euro PENALTY, and Farfan still does not really seem to understand what he has done wrong )

Schalke teen Moritz even started to CRY once in the locker-room after a Magath dressing down

and Sarpei / Baumjohann could not believe that they had to train with the AMATEURS

a trick Magath often uses due to his inflated squad and because players come back to the pros wanting to PROVE the worth ( ie , it often works )

( Schweini and Poldi suffered the same fate at Bayern)

a lot of the moaning is that of spoilt rotten millionaire egos

then again, it's obvious the Magath method is also built on fear and HARD CORE /no-nonsense discipline , which clearly is difficult to enforce amongst those narcissists with their supercars

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Rangnick would be the RIGHT man at the RIGHT time though

the team is still SUPREMELY fit after the Magath regime

and the relief that Magath has left SHOULD last for a few more months

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watch out for this weekend's CRACKER

Wolfsburg vs Schalke

MANY Schalke players will try to send Magath into the SECOND league by defeating him NOW

COULD become the game of the SEASON

indeed its a good thing that the medias recognize magaths part of this success

he deserves this respect from the medias, because he has so much achieved

its shameful how schalke players speak out bad comments

All this makes it sound as if Magath was still the manager

and entirely, and conveniently, discounts the line of argument that questions whether Magath would have attacked in that fashion at the San Siro.

Surely there's some truth in both aspects. Meanwhile, and entirely typically, you're so broad-brush and generalistic it's unreal. It's only a question – as ever – of what suits your agenda. Jesus, it's not as if either Magath the man or his footballing style are particularly likeable (that's a bit of a litotes really).

And by the way, "mobbing" doesn't really work in English I don't think – I think you probably mean bullying.

it's surprising how the media reacted to the Schalke win

MANY hacks insisted that A LOT OF CREDIT still had to go to Magath

he seems to have more support in the media than I thought

the Magath METHOD is based on FEAR and intimidation

players know that the current game can EASILY be their LAST; the day after they could train with the amateurs

when Magath pardons them and brings them back , they FIGHT for the LIVES

it WORKS

but the truth is, it's PSYCHO-TERROR

Farfan complaing about Magath and saying he would NEVER have signed an extension with Magath in charge sounds incriminating

BUT

the Inca was playing BRILLIANTLY under Magath, who had clearly TAMED him

today, Grafite says the Schalke players should show more RESPECT towards Magath

but he as well was RELIEVED when Felix had left Wolfsburg

but then who cares: post-Magath Wolfsburg AND Grafite may have had LOTS of fun, but they were SHITE

Mehmet Scholl recently RAVED about Magath and said that the gaffer was EXACTLY what he needed

and Misimovic would walk over coals to rejoin Felix

Rangnick now benefits from the RELIEF the players feel now that Magath is gone

Edu was back and played like a God

the "new manager" effect was the same as Magath "promoting a player from the bench"

still, the question is how long it will last

either Rangnick ROTATES like Magath did , in which case he uses the same method, but will also alienate many players whose hopes are once again destroyed

or he sticks to the Inter-winners, in which case the benchwarmers will be pissed off

we only have a few more games left, so the "RELIEF" factor might just last

as for Rangnick's tactics being GOOD: we'll see how good there are from now on; the "Magath-is-gone-effect" will have been more important

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my slight worry is the sheer DEPRESSION , almost SHOCK, you could see in those Schalke faces AFTER the drubbing

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some hilarious stuff by DUTCH LEGEND, MULDER

he was so pissed off with Magath, and claims peoples working in the Schalke offices were AS WELL

that he PLANNED a COUP



fuck

Schalke is such a MESS

CHAOSVEREIN

that REALLY needs SORTING out

it was a HUGE mistake to sack Magath

then again, Rangnick will be a HARD TASKmaster AS WELL

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good interview with Hitzelsperger

http://www.zeit.de/sport/2011-03/interview-hitzlsperger-trainerwechsel-magath?page=1

about flat-hierachies, FEAR...

smart boy

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incidentally

Jens Todt, the youth coordinator at Werder ( ? )

said that the % of Abiturienten amongst ACADEMY players was now higher than that in the population



the WHITE kids increasingly tend to be children of University educated parents (Hummels mum is a leading sports journalist, Götze's dad is a professor ...)

whereas the ethnic minority kids still tend to be from less well educated backgrounds

VERY worrying, me thinks

which also explains the feminisation, Verweichlichung

good interview with Metzelder

http://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussball/bundesliga/1105/Artikel/christoph-metzelder-fc-schalke-04-japanisch-pokalsieg.html



lots of praise for Magath as well

what an exceptional guy he is though

in order to help UCHIDA integrate, Metzelder has started to LEARN Japanese



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Uchida himself has said that he felt sorry for Magath (or rather the way he has been treated)

and Matip has also recently came out in praise of Magath

Dzeko did the same, by the way

calling Magath a BLESSING for Wolfsburg

and OCHS deliberately signed with Wolfsburg so that he could work with Magath

meanwhile, Misimovic is reported to be keen to return to Wolfsburg (under Magath)

allez, blut, hase and anglo have A LOT of explaining to do

What explaining is there left to do? So because you have a pro-Magath agenda, we have to take an anti-Magath stance?

otto, you really should have been around in the McCarthy era...