Borussia Dortmund 2013-2014 General Discussion Thread [R]

There you go, Auf gehts Dortmund.

 

Im a united fan but man do i adore Dortmund, i fell in love with the club 2 years ago, MASSIVE respect ot them. Hate Madrid so much

 

Yeah I love this club too. And I hate Madrid. But I don't care much for United. But tomorrow I'll be screaming from the rooftops for them. Because if there's one team I hate more than Madrid, it's Bayern.

 

Does anybody know what song Auf gehts Dortmund is based on? or from?

Oh come on, united aren't that bad
Yeah Madrid, Liverpool, City and Bayern are 4 teams i despise

Cant wait till we get Marco Reus!

 

Everyone has their own hated clubs, mine is almost every other big club.

Although because of Gotze I can't be certain, no way would management let him go, as is with Hummels.

 

Actually I don't mind Liverpool . I'd bet you'd take Brendan Rogers and Luis Suarez in a heartbeat to United, wouldn't you? I must admit the number of penalties Gerrard's getting seems to be suspicious. Then again when I watch the replays they seem legit.

You aren't getting Reus or Hummels. Dortmund will fight tooth and nail to keep them both. I'd be very surprised if our mgmt hasn't learned from the mistakes with Gotze and Lewandowski. If there'll be any exchange of players it'll be Kagawa heading our way. You're better off targeting players who won't be playing in the CL next year with their current teams. Take a peak at the Milanese clubs.

 

With Ilkay out of the World Cup, it would be madness to try and move to another team which means it could work out well for Dortmund if they manage to make him fit again and keep him for another two seasons possibly.

 

Any recent news on his recovery?

 

I don't think he will ever play an important role again. His career is done.

 

Its possible. On the other hand his injury is very different to those which ruined many careers. The most horrible ones are the knee injuries. But Gundogan has a back injury and I think that when (or if...) he gets rid of it he will be back and playing great because he won't lose his touch and will trust his legs, I hope you know what I mean.

 

The problem is that this is a genetic issue. There will be no getting rid of it. It may go away for a while then comeback, or it may never go away.

 

How do you know this I wonder. If there would be no getting rid of it then why would we even bother extending Gundogan's contract? He will never play high level football again from what you're suggesting, it seems you know more than the club and doctors.

 

I hope so too...

 

Miki scored against Bayern lol, I can't believe it. Hope this gives him some confidence.

 

dude we have a game thread, use it, someone might be reading this thread while trying to avoid the result because they can't make watch the match at the moment.

 

This match was a statement from Jurgen Klopp and Borussia Dortmund...

1. They keep Lewandowski in bench against Bayern and beats them 3:0...it's a statement from them that they are going to be fine and they are prepared for a life without Lewandowski...departure of Lewandowski is just like departure of Sahin, Kagwa, Goetze

2. Marco Reus is THE best player of Bundesliga this season and THE best German player at the moment...incredible player, performs in big matches just like Thomas Muller...Loew should be happy that he will have MUller and Reus in 2 wings in Brazil....he couldn't have shined if he had joined Bayern 2 years back to be a back up of Robben/Ribery...yes, he made the right career decision by choosing DOrtmund and in this season he has performed better than Ribery as a whole

3. I wonder what Pep could have done as coach of Dortmund who throughout the season going through injury crisis and top players leaving the club....with a treble winning squad and 2 marquee singings(Goetze, Thiago), he lost twice to Klopp in 3 meetings...as a coach Jurgen Klopp is light years ahead of him

4. Miki going to take Bundesliga and Champions League by storm next season

 

1. You're right.
2. You're right.
3. You're right.
4. I hope you're right.

 

About #3... There was a convo here some time ago scrutinizing Pep's coaching skills. The consensus as I remember was that a great coach is one who can take an ordinary team and do something extraordinary with it. A great coach indeed! Beat two best clubs in the world with second string team in a space of four days.

 

Dude no matter how logically you argue both Bayer and Dortmund fans think Pep is a better coach than JK. Nobody cares about the troubles Pep had at Barcelona. All they see are the sextuples and quintuples. There was the small matter of him having the best squads in the world at both clubs but why let that get in the way of jamming their heads up his ass.

 

About #1:

This might sound crazy...the challenge for Dortmund won't be teams like Bayern because Bayern's style of play fits right into what Dortmund do and how they want to play, the issue is their is only 1 team in Germany and a handful of teams in the world that will play that style against Dortmund...If Dortmund as a club want to improve then they have to get better against the weaker Bundesliga teams and what we saw against Bayern almost has nothing to do with that...the real test is going to be what happens when teams put 8-10 men behind the ball and say break us down (Dortmund have struggled against teams like that the last 2 seasons and that is 1 of the main reasons the spread between Bayern and Dortmund has been so large.....Bayern break those teams down regularly...Dortmund don't)...

#3

the same is also true with Miki....when teams open up and he has space to be athletic and dribble the ball...he is fine...but what happens when he doesn't have room and he is forced into tight spaces where he doesn't have time to control and pick out passes or dribble...he just has to create...He has struggled with that this season and since that has never been his game I struggle to think that all of a sudden he will pick it up...That is why I am in favor of moving him deep (and putting him in places where he has more space and time on the ball

 

Since Kagawa left..so bring him back

 

Want a good laugh? Perhaps that's a delayed April's Fools joke but Sport1 is reporting that Ilkay Gündogan is currently undergoing treatment in a military hospital on the Crimea peninsula.

http://www.sport1.de/de/fussball/fussball_bundesliga/newspage_875417.html

 

The only sense I can make of it would be that I assume military hospitals are better in treating some injuries. I would have imagined that he would have seen a back specialist for this, not a military hospital, even if a military hospital, why Crimea?

I don't know, I'm not too familiar with military hospitals but there has to be a better choice, unless perhaps a specialist is in that hospital and they're desperate at this point.

Or I'm taking this all too seriously.