Special feeling about Passlack. Difficult to explain.

Four players I'll be watching out for come next season: Selke, Poulsen, Passlack and Pulisic.

4 days later

RB Leipzig have a new coach for next season. Current Ingolstadt coach Hasenhüttl signed a 3-year deal with Leipzig.

I'd bet good money on him not being German. Nobody in Germany likes RB Leipzig

Eintracht made a huge step towards staying up after winning 1-0 vs Dortmund, extremely nervy match. Almost relieved Bayern won their away match today to be crowned champions because otherwise our win today would've meant we have effectively handed Bayern the title today. Doesn't matter how irrelevant that'd have been in the bigger picture, it would've tainted a huge win.

Borussia Mönchengladbach qualified for the Champions League today too. Watched a little bit of the second half to have another look at Xhaka. Was entertaining and Xhaka was good.

jones wrote:

Eintracht made a huge step towards staying up after winning 1-0 vs Dortmund, extremely nervy match. Almost relieved Bayern won their away match today to be crowned champions because otherwise our win today would've meant we have effectively handed Bayern the title today. Doesn't matter how irrelevant that'd have been in the bigger picture, it would've tainted a huge win.

Just realised that also meant next match against Werder Bremen is effectively a play-off to avoid the playoffs.

Hoffenheim's new young manager is incredible. Look dead and buried few weeks ago but they are now safe. Stuttgart meanwhile, looked safe for much of the season and now is relegated.

Yeah, draw is enough to stay safe. Hoffenheim's manager seems special indeed, heard rave reviews about him even before he was appointed and he has duly delivered. Don't know the stats I'd be surprised if he wasn't the youngest manager in any top league ever.

Stuttgart are such a strange club, they always go on these extreme runs of form ever since I started watching football and since then the whole staff and management have been replaced, there must be some reason for it. They started the season in awful form, changed managers and suddenly looked like a team that could reach the EL or even CL spots, then they petered out and now are relegated.

The Bundesliga at the top is boring and moves like Hummels destroy interest in it even with people like me who don't like Dortmund much either but the relegation battles each season are pretty insane.

I used to like Stuttgart back in the days where they had Cacau and Hleb, tore United apart in the UCL. It wasn't long ago they won the Bundesliga and is now relegated. Same goes for Werder. Schaaf brand of attacking football was really good to watch in the past.

Schaaf was Frankfurt's manager in 14/15, real shame he was hounded out of the club as I have a lot of time for his ultra attacking style. Frankfurt conceded a large number of goals finishing midtable but only Bayern VW and Leverkusen scored more goals, also Alex Meier became domestic top scorer at 32 years old under him.

He's vastly underappreciated in Germany and even more so internationally, no mean feat to win the double with a club like Bremen and to keep them in the CL for years. Not flashy enough for the big stage I suppose but it would be interesting to see him at a club like ours. At the end of the season we'd have a GD of something like 120:70

RB Leipzig have officially been promoted to the Bundesliga.

So next season your posts about them will actually belong in the Bundesliga thread then... 🙂

The hate online for Leipzig is hilarious to read. I think they might even be hated more than =bayern 😆

A hell of a lot more than Bayern.

Dortmund fans have already made t-shirts and banners showing their hatred for Leipzig.

What's the reason for this hatred?

Okay so where to I start... You can ask any Bundesliga fan to share a few words about the RB Leipzig football club and you will get these same words as a response: “Nein zu RB,” meaning No to RB.

Almost all of Germany has a dislike for RB Leipzig, but what is the reason?

Just two words: RED BULL.

In Germany members own football clubs, not businesses. But RB seem to be the exception to that rule, and many people dislike that.

All fans from all clubs want to keep it that way, they way to keep the tradition.

The German FA seems to have turned a blind eye to RB Leipzig, perhaps in part because the company is investing so heavily in the old East Germany where big football clubs are so scarce. Leipzig alone have somewhere betwee 480-500,000 people but no big football club to follow.

In Germany there is a 50+1 rule, designed to prevent investors from gaining majority rights in a club registered as a stock company. Yet Bayern can have corporations buy 10% a piece in shares, divide stocks, and claim they are obeying 50+1 while takng no less money than RB puts into Leipzig.? Hypocrisy somewhat.

Leverkusen are owned by Bayer and VFL Wolfsburg are owned by Volkswagen.

Dietmar Hopp who is worth 6 billion has been investing heavily in Hoffenheim since early 2000's and has moved from from the lowest division in football to the Bundesliga.

Union Berlin, Erzgebirge Aue, and 1860 Munich (all tradition-laden clubs) refused to play friendlies against RB Leipzig two summers ago. That's how passionate they are.

So yeah, the hate is real and it's strong and it won't go away.

All of the clubs you've mentioned are also frowned upon (Leverkusen) or downright despised (Hoffenheim) by the vast majority of German fans. Don't think I really need to mention Bayern

And yeah RB are circumventing or rather breaking the 50+1 rule pretty blatantly, even worse than the other retort clubs.

How the fuck do Dortmund have an absolutely ginormous stadium? I just read that their capacity is 82000

The over 80k capacity is only with safe standing areas. It's 65k for CL and other international matches.

Still a big stadium, mind.

Frankfurt didn't make it in the end. Good luck for your team in the play off Jones. Normally the club in Bundesliga wins it so should be fine.

Poor Hertha. Spent the entire season in the top 4 only to miss out on European football completely on the final day.

Thanks Clarence. Wanted to take the trip to Bremen today but didn't make it in the end, good thing probably in hindsight. Would've had to watch the game in a pub there anyway, tickets were long sold out.

Kovac messed up with the formation, even if you're playing for the draw you don't need to play as defensively as we did. Should be fine hopefully with Meier coming back from injury next week.

23 days later

RB Leipzig to sign Embolo (19) for €20m fee [kicker, germany]

I keep hearing this name as one of the best young strikers around - has anyone watched him play? If he is, I would hope we are in for him at that price (or someone similar to take over from Vardy in a few years).

BWoolley wrote:

I keep hearing this name as one of the best young strikers around - has anyone watched him play? If he is, I would hope we are in for him at that price (or someone similar to take over from Vardy in a few years).

Better to just let him move to a Bundesliga side, develop there for a few seasons and then buy him if he comes good. Young players need to play to reach their full potential

Also, we haven't actually signed Vardy 😆

2 months later
Savz wrote:

Special feeling about Passlack. Difficult to explain.

He was great vs Bayern last night. I'll try find a compilation soon.

8 days later

Davide Ancelloti, Carlo's son, has been named assistant coach of Bayern Munich. Davide is 27 years old.

5 days later

RB Leipzig start their first ever Bundesliga campaign today.

Expecting them to get booed from the first minute to the last.

Funny that their first ever top flight game would be El Plastico vs Hoffenheim.

On a related note, RB just bought Oliver Burke, Scottish kid from Nottingham Forrest for €12m

Oliver Burke is basically the new Gareth Bale.

8 days later
jones wrote:

Funny that their first ever top flight game would be El Plastico vs Hoffenheim.

On a related note, RB just bought Oliver Burke, Scottish kid from Nottingham Forrest for €12m

He looks great doesn't he. RB arr building a good young team. Top half of the table would be a good finish.

Apparently Dortmund fans are boycotting the RB game and went to see their youth team instead.

They're probably happy they decided to do that... They would've seen their team lose otherwise.

Did you become a fan before or after the name change?

I show a healthy interest, not exactly a fan.