Review: German Players Development Discussion - 2017/18

seems like Conte is high on German defenders with rumors recently of Boateng to Chelsea. But now the Rudiger to Chelsea rumors are back as Rudi has been a player that Conte has wanted for awhile.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/06/30/chelsea-talks-sign-30m-antonio-rudiger-roma/

 

Question for the group. Last night on ESPN Arne Friederich mentioned Germany is building a new 120mln youth training facility. Anyone have details? Sorry if this was already discussed and old news.

 

not sure about 120,
but Bayern recently unveiled their 78mln youth academy.

 

Thanks. They mentioned that later in the show. I was under the impression this was some type of DFB facility for the national teams.

 

I think they might mean that this will produce even more German youth players. As Bayern are building this youth academy/center because the board wants to focus less on imports and more on domestic. They aren't happy about Alaba essentially being the last successful Bayern youth player and aren't as keen to overpay for imports.

 

http://www.dfb.de/en/projects/dfb-academy/

 

oh yeah it's true. I completely forgot about this, must be because I haven't seen it being talked about much in the last year.

 

That's it.

Thanks guys

 

Holtby to England, again??
http://www.espnfc.com/story/3151128/newcastle-bournemouth-keen-on-hamburgs-lewis-holtby-sources

Karim Bellarabi to Everton or Arsenal?
http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/bayer-leverkusen/bayers-verkaufs-quartett-52383180.bild.html

 

Bundesliga Spotlight‏ @BundesligaSpot now1 minute ago
DiMarzio: Roma & Germany's Antonio Rüdiger will undergo a medical with English champions Chelsea on Monday. Will sign 5-year deal.

 

I think Ginter is inconsistent, but I think it's better for him to be in the Bundesliga. If he goes to England, he'll get destroyed if he's inconsistent. It doesn't help having to adapt to a new league, while in Germany he's more used to things.

 

pretty cool that 3 Germans are close to hitting 100 Bundesliga goals
Muller----96 goals=4 to go
Reus------92 goals=8 to go
Meier------92 goals=8 to go

on the other hand Mario Gomez is close to hitting a milestone himself, he's 12 goals off reaching the #10 all time Bundesliga scorer.
8-Dieter Muller-------177
9-Klaus Allofs--------177
10-Johannes Lohr---166
....
14-Mario Gomez------154

and Kiessling who is supposedly playing 1 more season is at 144, 6 off the 150 mark.

while Werner, Stindl, Gotze and Petersen are fast approaching 50.

 

sounds like you can add Real Madrid on the list of teams supposedly interested in Goretzka.
http://www.fichajes.net/noticias/madrid-contacta-nueva-estrella-alemana-20170704.html

now it seems like there are rumors of Goretzka to
-Bayern
-Real
-Juventus
-Arsenal
-Tottenham

with small whispers of Liverpool too.

 

Gotze seems to be doing very well!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWNFRDQn6Hc/?taken-by=gotzemario

so who's left on the injured/out list?
-Reus
-Weigl
-Neuer

anyone else?

 

Niclas Fullkrug scored a brace in a pre-season 5-2 win vs Weiche Flensburg. He started the 2nd half only. While Harnik who played in the 1st half failed to score.

and in another friendly, Florian Niederlechner scored a hat trick vs Lorrach-Brombach. While 21 year old Tim Kleindienst scored a brace in that same game.

while Muller got on the scoring board in Bayern's 1st friendly.

 

well Rudiger to Chelsea is a done deal. Not shocking, Conte has been high on him for like 2 years. Hope he does well in England. Signed a 5 year contract.

joins Ballack, Marin, and Schurrle as Germans who played in Chelsea.