Bundesliga Spieltag #26 (OFFICIAL THREAD)

If Lampard knows Volz, it's a good reason not to nominate him...

On a serious note, I thought his view on the Bundesliga to be interesting. He basically said that they simply don't (didn't) show Bundesliga matches on TV over there, that's why he had a Milan, Barça or Madrid jersey as a kid, but not a Bayern one. It is a good league according to him, but he can't imagine moving to the Bundesliga because of this.

Just confirms what we all know and have been saying repeatedly. Poor marketing abroad costs us. Not just money, but it makes us less attractive for good foreign players.
Things are improving, but we now need is international success, e.g. Bayern winning the CL again in the next few years.

The money is there, despite the poor marketing, we are a rich league (as a whole) compared to others (second highest turnovers in Europe this season, after the EPL), but we need international success. Once that happens again, marketing the league abroad should be easier also. We are caught in a circle, and need to get out of it.

Johan Cruyff nennt Sie den besten Mittelfeldspieler der Welt ...

(schmunzelnd) Da hat er Recht ... Eine Riesenehre, wenn einer der größten Fußball-Legenden so was sagt.

He does have some sense.

Did he call Ballack ... "Bally"?

Yeah, gay as it gets.


Damn, Schulz got injured during warm up, and replaced with Vranjes. We are doomed (again...).

@blut

the marketing of the Bundesliga is indeed a joke

yet, the lack of stars makes it slightly difficultas well

besides, in England there simply is no appetite for ANYTHING German; at least with regards to the Germanophobic media managers

when "Das Wunder von Bern" ruled the German box-office, film distributors from over 20 countries were snapping up their country's distributions rights

the only "big country" that registered ZERO interest initially, where not a single distributors would cough up as much as a £1 was England

read the Bild interview and Lampard's arrogance is simply breathtaking

you could not sell the Bundesliga to him if his life depended on it

combine English arrogance/insularity/Germanophobia with our marketing incompetence and you have a match made in hell

Goddamnit! What a beautiful build up, what a great dribbling by Diego, and then he hits the post!

Unlucky, that deserved a goal.

blutgraetsche wrote: We are doomed (again...).

otto, it's not the English players we want.
So they can ge Germanophobic as they want (if they really are that much).

It was a general statement by me. We do lack stars, but that's the (vicious) circle I talked about. We need success to market the league better, and therefore attract foreign stars, not necessarily the English ones.

We are completely dominating the match, had 3 good chances already. Score damnit!

Did Hargreaves play yesterday? what's his chances of playing in the Champions League games?

Hargreaves did play yesterday, and most probably will start in the CL also.

Phew. Very good shot by Zidan, nice save by Wiese.

Mainz are dangerous on counters, we need to be careful.

blutgraetsche wrote:Hargreaves did play yesterday, and most probably will start in the CL also.

Thanks

Mainz getting stronger, another good shot.

Very high pace, entertaining match.

Andreasen got booked for a foul against Klose.

Stop fouling our players you idiot, you are our player.

Diego got booked, not a nasty foul though. Harsh decision.

blutgraetsche wrote:Andreasen got booked for a foul against Klose.

Stop fouling our players you idiot, you are our player.

I hope for you he isn´t the Sjaak Polak of yours and score two goals...

Ricardo Jol wrote:
I hope for you he isn´t the Sjaak Polak of yours and score two goals...

Well, both Zidan and Andreasen are Werder players originally (Andreasen is on a loan even), and they are the best Mainz players this season, have made them the best team of the second half after they joined them in January. So it wouldn't a be a surprise at all if one of them scores against us today.

We dominated the beginning, but Mainz came back in the last few minutes. Mainz remain dangerous with long range shots and counters.

Goddamnit, Almeida and Klose waste two sitters in a row. SCORE DAMMIT!

blutgraetsche wrote:If Lampard knows Volz, it's a good reason not to nominate him...

Well, he should know him, what with Volzy playing directly against him and Herr Ballack (outplaying them, I should add...) in the last SW6 derby...

The linesmen are a joke, that's two offside decisions against us that simply were onside. Could have been great chances.

blutgraetsche wrote:Goddamnit, Almeida and Klose waste two sitters in a row. SCORE DAMMIT!

Well, they better did, ASAP! Can't have Schalke pulling away like that, can we?


I shall just pretend yesterday's match didn't happen. At least Kuranyi didn't score.

Feulner (Mainz) got booked. He could have seen red for that nasty foul.

Agree Wiebke, we have to win today.

That's 4 or 5 offside decisions against us that were ON SIDE. Die you blind idiot of a linesman.


Unbelievable.

Schalke more than anyone deserves to win the league .. its been a long wait and the famine must end.

OMG.


Vranjes misses a chance that's can't even be called sitter, chances simply don't get better than. Great build up and pass by Klose, Vranjes ruins it.

blutgraetsche wrote:That's 4 or 5 offside decisions against us that were ON SIDE. Die you blind idiot of a linesman.


Unbelievable.

looks like the linesman wants to balance your luck against Vigo a bit....

Werder vs. Mainz 0:0 HT

We are wasting too many chances, that could cost us. We should be leading by now, definitely the better team.

But at least we're playing football again. It's a very entertaining match, one of the best of the season, because Mainz plays well also. But WE NEED TO SCORE.

Rai Krol wrote:Schalke more than anyone deserves to win the league .. its been a long wait and the famine must end.

If they win it, they will deserve it. But hopefully we can prevent that.

blutgraetsche wrote:OMG.


Vranjes misses a chance that's can't even be called sitter, chances simply don't get better than. Great build up and pass by Klose, Vranjes ruins it.