Rijkaard lost the plot. 

The squad Guardiola came in to coach was full of players who'd already won everything, as well as some of the finest talent in Europe. It was almost entirely complete.

Eto'o and Messi and Henry.
Xavi and Iniesta (remember Euro 2008 by the way?). 

Guardiola deserves a lot of credit for the likes of Busquets and Piqué. 

6 days later

Watch out for Patrick Hermann. Seen him now in 2 consecutive games against Bayern and Dortmund and I'm really impressed. Dunno why there isn't any hype around him but he looks very good to me.

8 days later

Tomorrow's Kicker reporting that Arsenal might be interested in taking Klopp this summer. Firstly don't think that will happen but Kicker is known to be a very reliable German paper, they aren't known to make up silly rumours.

They are not making silly rumours up, they're just connecting the dots. There are few clubs in Europe that would be of interest to Klopp and most of them would be in England. City apparently are hoping to get Ancelotti or Guardiola should either get the sack, Chelsea and United aren't looking. Leaving us and Liverpool at a stretch, and if it's between us and them it's clear which side he'd want to manage, all provided that we'd be interested/Wenger would be ready to leave obviously.

Wenger and Klopp double team?

Very unrealistic though, can't even think of many double managerial teams. There was the Daglish one at Liverpool and also Sweden with Lagerback

Sascha Lewandowski and Sami Hyypiä couple years ago at Leverkusen. Worked great at Leverkusen, don't think it would in the EPL.

21 days later

Schalke have sacked Kevin Prince Boateng and Sidney Sam with immediate effect following an apparent disciplinary issue.

Midfielder Marco Hoger is also been suspended.

Wow, that's some news given that they are one of their best players.

Maybe based on reputation but Boateng has been a massive disappointment.

How's Sam been doing? He was pretty good for Leverkusen last year. Might be a decent free pickup? You don't see many players who can dribble well at top speed.

He has barely played and when he has he has been disappointing too.

To be honest, a lot of Schalke's struggles going forward have been down to Di Matteo and his negative boring playstyle.

He has been a poor appointment and maybe sacking Keller was not the best decision that Schalke board took at the beginning of thhis season.

8 days later

All over twitter that Boateng and Lewandowski had a fight in one of the training sessions at Bayern Munich, players had to stop them. Sweet.

Boateng to Arsenal then.

a year later

Three youngsters in Germany:

Felix Passlack and Christian Pulisic are two gems at Borussia.
Niklas Dorsch at Bayern is a young CM who is turning heads.

There are fights in pretty much every club from time to time I reckon.

Post was from a year ago Rex. Savz just bumped an old thread.

Can not wait to see how RB Leipzig do in the Bundesliga next season. Davie Selke is one of my favourite young strikers around. Yussuf Poulsen is also a top striker they have.