Sure, that's really going to happen. I mean, the squad of 18 that's just won the league is going to be disrupted in the run-in to the Champion's League (which Pep is under real "win it or . . ." pressure) to give a few marginal teenagers garbage minutes in garbage games. And some of those games may not be that garbage - the relegation battle, as well as the EL and CL races could be affected. Run-outs in meaningless games are what pre-season friendlies are for, not the BL 1 schedule. Even if, for some reason (elimination in the CL being the most likely) Bayern do that, my money is on Gaudino & Kurt getting first dibs on those places because Bayern have already shown that they see them as part of the future , with or without Pep. If Green doesn't get some of those games, that's the equivalent of the club handing in a written transfer request.
FYP A spoiled, self-indulgent, unambitious chump refuses to get on the pitch at the highest level he's offered. This is August not April 2015, if a loan to BL3 is the highest level you're offered, take it and prove that you're too good for D4 - while you still are. You're not seriously comparing Donovan to Green are you? Whatever about his BL1 failures, he'd already shown he was a quality player at international level in multiple GC and WC tournaments. Green hasn't even done that in U-21 tournaments. Second, back then MLS was a vastly inferior league to BL1. It was also, even then, a vastly superior league to Germany's regionalized D4. Donovan played at the highest level available to him.
It's going to be the opposite of a cakewalk with Regensburg in the league. Even if they miraculously make it to no.1 they still have to play a promotion playoff.
Orrrr, maybe the scenario being hinted at was...with Bayern II assured of promotion and Bayern having sewn up the Bundesliga title, Pep uses younger players to manage the workload of his regular starters...it's not really that hard of an interpretation if you're not just looking to contradict people
There is no way that Bayern II can be assured of promotion, since, even if they win their division, they still have to go through a play-off.
Well, tbf, how many even ardent football fans know about how the lower divisions are structured in other countries? Mostly, the blame falls on Klinsmann, for calling up a fourth division player and starting a ridiculous hype around him.
Hm. I'm thinking if we made that distinction, but I can't remember it now, then it's probably too fine a distinction to go with. @dark knight and @Friedel'sAccent what's the ruling on GZ?
I'll never forgive him for taking that kid to the WC and leaving home much better players. Inexcusable.
Kid's living the sweet life getting a pretty penny for very little actual playing, in one of the most prestigious clubs in the world, which makes him a chick magnet. He's in a good position. JG celebrating 100,000 Instagram followers. Social media star status confirmed!
Someone take his phone and destroy it. I think Green means well, in terms of his career goals, but he's wasting time in the 4th division.
This dude ain't going anywhere any time soon.. The hype has gotten to his head I know he scored a WC goal but if he wouldn't have been on the WC team he'd most likely be more humble and have a better head on his shoulders
If Twitter is the armpit of the Internet, does that make Instagram the inflamed rectum? I know I sound like a curmudgeon, but live your own life people. Stop telling everyone else what you're literally doing, all the time. And this is coming from a millennial. Get off my lawn!
I for one think it's a shame that Julian Green has been selected for the full Yanks Abroad forum when other, more worthy players have been left out.
I thought it was simply first-team minutes in a competitive match: http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/whats-up-with-this-new-forum.2009877/#post-30920218
So he likes social media, that's a crime? or makes him less focused or not humble? To me he comes across as a nice kid that's working hard to be a good player.
Not really. The reserve teams in the RL system is for player - young player - development. Getting promoted to BL3 is a lot like EL qualification for EPL teams; the prestige is gratifying, but you have to add experience and bodies to make the squad competitive in BL3 competition, an expense and a pain that brings very little gain hile denying 2-3 more starting places to youngsters. If anything, the jump in standard from RL to BL3 is so great that many player development benefits from league play are lost. In the RLs scrawny kids with great technique and high soccer IQs learn how to beat beefy hard men with with PhDs in football's darker arts who are playing for something meaningful (like a contract extension). In BL3, the hard men have decent-to-good technique, higher IQs and are much faster & fitter than RL. The young kids get blown away in a lot of games. Basically, the clubs mostly don't care about II team promotion and when they do care they'd secretly rather it didn't happen.