Thought I'd create a thread instead of clogging up the General football one.

Let's kick the thread off with what has to be the worst offside decision in the history of the sport 😆

Völler's reaction to the goal is worth watching too

Good time to create one now that it looks like there might be a hint of a competition for the title on the horizon with Dortmund only being 5 points behind now.

I didn't expect Tuchel to be able to reorganize them so much offensively in such a short time. I didn't know much about him other than his good reputation, but I thought he was going to be more of a AvB type manager with bigger focus on a solid defense and midfield.
Speaking of their midfield, all of them are looking pretty good. Gundogan seems to be doing well again, he made a delicious pre-assist today for their third goal I think. Kagawa career seems to have revived a bit as well, Mkhitaryan doesn't look like a flop anymore. Weigl has been a surprise though, probably one of the better DM in Europe so far this season.

Yeah Tuchel has been a very attack minded manager at Mainz a few years back, had them playing the best football in the history of their club. Before Bayern turned the league into a one horse race they even set the record for consecutive wins at the start of a season. Dortmund look very promising indeed, Weigl fits their team perfectly, very impressive for a 19 year old who came from the 2. Bundesliga. Mkhitaryan has already more than doubled his goal tally from last year, looks a lot more like the player he was at Shakhtar few years back, interesting that him and Costa are now among the very best players in Germany after playing together in the Ukraine.

We should try and poach Reus next window or in the summer the latest, they might be more willing to let him go now that the rest of their team doesn't look completely hopeless.

I want Aubameyang. He's upped his game massively.

I like Weigl as well. I'm surprised to know that he's only 19 year old. Thought he was some talent poached from Eastern Europe. Might be confusing him with the guy they bought previously.

That offside is simply ridiculous. How did he miss that? Is like he was literally daydreaming.

Reports of tax investigators raiding the DFB (German FA) headquarters in Frankfurt as well as president Niersbach's home. Good news but I remain skeptical until I see someone convicted for the bribes/embezzled funds. I'm more concerned about the tax investigators, the last time a group of them was successful in my hometown the whole group were declared insane and unsuitable for service by the court's psychological consultant.

Bayern's formation vs Stuttgart:

This is just ridiculous.

That's a squad without Gotze, Ribery, Lahm, Martinez, etc. I see goals though. Hat tricks

Talk about inverting the fucking pyramid. Ridiculous stuff.

Kagawa scored again. He really should sue Ferguson for wasting two years of his career.

Fuck Robben. Players like Neymar and Costa have been few and far between since Ronaldinho became fat - they can do whatever they like .

Even if it wasn't the biggest cheat in the game criticising Costa I don't see how being good and actually finding joy in the sport you play is unsportsmanlike anyway. Similar to Neville talking about clattering Rosicky because of his no look pass, these people need to be stomped out of the game so people who like football can actually enjoy it, on and off the pitch.

It's a great example of the kind of attitude that has fostered the most toothless generation of European footballers the world has ever seen.

Deschamps had it spot on when he described himself as a water carrier in the French team. Guys like him are there to make room for more talented individuals to do their thing. Some of these Leverkusen players should count themselves lucky to be on the same field as Costa instead of feeling offended that they got done by a sublime piece of skill.

😆 To be fair I don't think any of the Leverkusen players complained about it, it's just Robben being a hypocritical piece of shit as usual.

Wasn't Cantona the one who called Deschamps a water carrier?

i dont wish injury on anyone, but if robben got a case of dibilitating diahrrea and had to retire, id drink a celebratory bottle of wine

hes the biggest cword in the sport

Niersbach resigns as president of the German FA "for political reasons". The prosecutor's office opened a case against him and his predecessor Zwanziger for "particularly severe case of tax evasion", a handwritten note from 2004 has proven that Niersbach knew of the embezzlement from day one.

I'm pleasantly surprised so far, shame though that Beckenbauer will get off scot-free. Just a few weeks ago Niersbach and his cronies gave Blatter and his mafia stick for being corrupt, now they are facing jail time.

a month later

Incredible win for Dortmund at Wolfsburg, Rodriguez converts a penalty in the 90+1 minute to make it 1-1 only for Kagawa to score at the end of a brilliant first time ball from Mkhitaryan to restore their lead two minutes later.

Would love Rodriguez here.

jones wrote:

Incredible win for Dortmund at Wolfsburg, Rodriguez converts a penalty in the 90+1 minute to make it 1-1 only for Kagawa to score at the end of a brilliant first time ball from Mkhitaryan to restore their lead two minutes later.

Good to see that the Bundesliga has become a 2 horse race again.

By the way, what an incredible recovery by Gladbach. If they didn't have that shit start they would be top right now.

3 months later

Just tuned in to Dortmund-Bayern, some great stuff on show. Incredible save from the Dortmund keeper just now from a Vidal snap shot. Then a superb header from Reus to create a chance for Aubameyang.

Bayern look the more likely...

Guardiola 'coaching' one of his players on the pitch in front of the cameras right after the game. Glad that sad little attention whore won't be managing us next season. At least Wenger has some dignity in his madness.

15 days later

Didn't realise Mikhitaryan has 20 goals and 24 assists this season. That's phenomenal.

Clrnc wrote:

Didn't realise Mikhitaryan has 20 goals and 24 assists this season. That's phenomenal.

He's unreal.

Clrnc wrote:

Didn't realise Mikhitaryan has 20 goals and 24 assists this season. That's phenomenal.

Thought that sounded off, according to Who Scored he has 10 goals and 10 assists in 26 Bundesliga appearances. And 1 goal and 4 assists in 9 Europa appearances. 4 goals in their Cup competition and it doesn't list the assists in that. Good going but not earth shattering.

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/28421/Show/Henrikh-Mkhitaryan

I find him immensely annoying to watch, personally.

Same. He's much better this season from the little I've seen but he's one of those players who really gets on your nerves by being so damn predictable. His decision-making is poor too. He's a bit like Coutinho in the sense that I really don't think he's a good playmaker, yet he occupies that specific role on the field.

Not sure where they got their stats from but yeah.

Personally I don't think he is that good, especially in the bigger games as he has this annoying tendency to miss easy chance but score a difficult one. Just shocked by the stats and if true that's really impressive. He has been playing on the right all season long and it has helped him get forward easier.

Ricky1985 wrote:
Clrnc wrote:

Didn't realise Mikhitaryan has 20 goals and 24 assists this season. That's phenomenal.

Thought that sounded off, according to Who Scored he has 10 goals and 10 assists in 26 Bundesliga appearances. And 1 goal and 4 assists in 9 Europa appearances. 4 goals in their Cup competition and it doesn't list the assists in that. Good going but not earth shattering.

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/28421/Show/Henrikh-Mkhitaryan

I find him immensely annoying to watch, personally.

Transfermarkt has 20 goals and 24 assists, Whoscored (fraud website anyway) apparently doesn't list the Europa League qualifiers.

http://www.transfermarkt.de/henrikh-mkhitaryan/leistungsdaten/spieler/55735

I can understand Klaus' criticism of his in that he's sometimes a bit too direct to be a top class playmaker but he's on a completely different level to Coutinho, he pulls out some insane assists pretty regularly. Like Clrnc said Tuchel plays him exclusively on either wing this season and even though he still roams all over the pitch it has relieved him of the pressure he's been under in the last two seasons.

Fair enough, if it's counting the qualifiers.

The Bundesliga stats are the only ones I really care for, personally, and 10 and 10 in 26 games sounds about right to me for the player he is.

Sometimes I think it's pretty damning for us to scoff at someone of his quality when Ox after 4 season combined could barely match any of his stats.

Mkhitaryan has fantastic end product. Not elegant enough for the purists but his stats speak for themselves. His positioning is absolutely phenomenal and he is an incredibly hard worker too. Like a midfielders version of Thomas Müller.

Germany Under 21 squad for their up and coming fixtures. So Stacked. Germany's next generation is going to be as classy as their current with the likes of Weigl, Weiser, Sane, Kimmich, Selke etc.

Clrnc wrote:

Sometimes I think it's pretty damning for us to scoff at someone of his quality when Ox after 4 season combined could barely match any of his stats.

I don't think he's great but he's obviously better than Ox in current form. Pretty sure all his detractors on here would agree as well

15 days later

Mkhitaryan is an excellent player. He's a pacy player wide who really plays incisive passes.

Can play anywhere behind the forward.

Some other Bundesliga players impressing me-

Dahoud- Xhaka's partner. Great decision making and technical ability.
Julian Brandt- Awesome touch and looks like he's adding goals to his game.
Kramaric- For a forward he's got really good technique. Don't know why Leicester haven't given him a chance because he's been sensational for Hoffenheim. Leicester have got a good set of young players in him, Gray and Chilwell.
Thorgan Hazard- Plays quite a bit like his brother. Needs to add more goals. Gets a fair few assists.

5 days later

Kagawa has been great all year but this goal :drool: