Time to work on the CM transfer(s) then-Hoffmann did his knee in the Pokal. Torn MCL usually means: "see you next year"......................
ACL, yes. MCL? Not so much. I had a friend who played for a number of years, albeit not pro, without an MCL.... We'll see....
Kramer thinks he might be an option for the first matchday TF thinks Hofmann will be back not later than October 1) new rumors: arrival Augsburg's Max (LB, his father scored quite well for Borussia) Wöber (Seville, CB/LB?) [don't think this is gonna happen] 2) new rumors: departure there seems to be new trouble with Cuisance... apparently he is offensively demanding more playing time, there are even talks of a 'regular starting place' (I like Cuisance and I want to see him grow into a forthcoming great 'new' Borussia but if the latter is true he'll better go and see a doctor... but honestly? I cannot believe a-n-y-b-o-d-y is nearly as stupid as to demand a guaranteed starting place) and know what? before you can say "Cui..." there is a B*yern rumor popping up (fortunately only tabloits so far)
acc. to KICKER medical check for Bensebaini today so, rumors 1) from above are dead, I hope the same is true for rumor 2)
Cuisance: some already have their hankerchiefs out to wave goodbye at the PC today both Eberl and Rose commented "let's wait and see where the (his?) journey is heading"... this sounds like a departure being more likely than not Eberl: "all doors are open" Eberl told that the club and the Cuisance-party have talked a lot over the last weeks but he avoided any further details... Eberl seemed to me like somebody who has had enough and who isn't interested in further talks anymore... seems C. overstepped some boundaries and Eberl -by now- sees Cuisance more as a nuisance than anything else... too bad, and I really don't understand why this is happening just NOW... considering the new coach, the new system and Hofmann's injury: isn't it a little bit early for C. to see his hopes dashed? Rose: "There is no turbulence. Everything is good and smooth. It's not about my feelings or Mika's. It's only about the success of the team against S04." Bensebaini: given the frequency of his bookings it seems he's the one who has to teach the opponent manners if they are going rough... some supporters are already calling him 'Sensebeini' (~ scythebone or scythe-leg) our one and only Algerian 'legend' (no, not really ;-) Karim Matmour told Bensebaini learned to kick ball barefoot... not because they had no shoes, no, because the academy in Algiers liked to do it this way... and they liked to run their 14-year-olds against men's teams... ok, that explains a lot... and don't the Berber people share some genes of the vandals? back in the good old days in the years of 4xx I guess... yes, we craved for bite and body and Eberl gave it to us... quadruply! [the only fear I have: Lainer and Sense both being banned for half of the season]
I dont likeCuisanceleaving one bit I was also sure he is the kind of man Rose would love to go to battle with!!!
reading today Milan are looking to take Flo, but not this year. Next-when he's in the last yr. of contract..................
Its a win -win situation for Hollywood...plus the guy has loads of talent and one should be blind to not see this fact,not sure whats going on...and very surprised Rose is on board with this decision?????
what's apparently going on is/was annoying and disrespectful behaviour of C and his entourage towards the club (and his many components) for months now 'talent' wasn't part of the decision-making anymore I guess (it only affected the transfer fee) Eberl: "We had a player who no longer wanted to follow our path. Accordingly, we took action and sold him." a lot of people think C is Sinan Kurt 2.0 (who left us for the Alpine foothills which didn't go well.. he now is without a club) but I don't think so, C is a different caliber... selling him to China would have it seems C thinks only one of the TOP10 clubs in Europe is worthy of him the S-clown (always looking like an overstrained apprentice to me) at the Hoenesses was praising C's 'mentality'... Ha! good luck with that! so, Benes is the new C! replacement is possible but -acc. to Eberl- not that likely (Gregoritsch rumor, not gonna happen I guess, we need a '6'!... and Paderborn's Vasiliadis... I like him, snappy!, when asked what he's forward looking to in his first Bundesliga-season he told: "Playing in Gladbach!" ;-) but I don't like to plunder P'born -a club who's struggling for survival- right after the season started... we are not the ugly Hoenesses, aren't we? what pisses me off most is that we know would have the money to sign Samassekou... but SAP has already put wood behind that arrow ;-((((
I more or less expected a match like that... and most likely there are more to follow ;-)... but I expected a win too... the porksiders are really bad and have even bigger problems than we have... and one could see that Gladbach has a bigger 'approach' than them... we had the chances but to take advantage our passing game has to become more deliberate, more flowing and more exact didn't expect three players who are not really fit for 90min in the starting XI... I had hoped for Raffa instead of Embolo at least... the Swiss always tell us that Embolo is usable on '8' and '10' as well but I prefer a player with a better passing game at least on '10' though: Ginter & Elvedi seem stabilized for the second match in a row (S'hausen's many shots weren't their fault), Wendt & Lainer not bad either, Benes gives hope
Maldini apparently likes him quite possible he's leaving in summer of '20 to a big club... most likely a bigger club than Milan is now I guess (they have problems to make the EL for quite some time... for different reasons... in a league which isn't exactly state of the art)... leaving on a free transfer in '21 is very unlikely I guess... Borussia is gonna cashing in before ... of course, he has to continue improving this season ... if he keeps performing like in S'hausen and against S04 he certainly is going nowhere ;-)
When I saw Embolo acting as the playmaker............well; the result seemed preordained. They need more than a 6. Zak & Benes can be serviceable, Neuhaus? He have to be at the bottom or not at all for me...........Nothing else is there that works. There is nobody capable of acting as the head of it. That includes Hoffmann even with 2 legs. Ultimately when healthy he could suffice on one side of it. I was so disappointed in Lainer the first time I saw him against Chelski. He was a little better on Saturday, jury is out on him. We wait to see what the Algerian can bring to the table. This system doesn't suit Oskar at all. One of the F need to be held for fresh legs off the bench. Didn't do much on Saturday, but I think I'm going to prefer Thuram or Breel as the hub, and Plea as the spoke in the wheel. Doesn't matter really. They need critical parts for the diamond-or they need to think of something different quick. Tick tock Max..............................tick tock.
Ok guys i couldnt watch the game...but through the years i have left my trust in your hands..how did u see Gladbach under Rose against a strong side such as S04??? Was it 2 points lost at home or??
Looked to me like early season trying to figure things out, for both sides. Schalke was content with a draw. Lots of missed passes. Both teams seems a little out of sorts.
BMG didn't look ready to open the season. 2 lost points at home. Best (only?) chance they had fell to Plea in the second half. Intercept played him in, and with the entire L side of the net gaping open...............he shanked it.
kgilbert and lucky said it all... only thing I want to add to make life easier ;-))) is that more or less the whole league didn't look ready to open the season ;-) maybe L'zig but they faced the most likely weakest team in the league, maybe D'mund but Augsburg's new goalie acted as their 12th man... the only team that was really ready was P'born I guess (unfortunately no points, but Michel scored! Favre didn't like him that much back in the days) still, 2 points lost for my liking...
maybe we are too fixated on the '10' ~ playmaker equation.... sometimes you play a flat diamond and the '10' is more often acting as a '6' than a playmaker... or it looks like a diamond sometimes but is rather a 4-3-1-2 with the '10' being a deep lying striker... at the end it depends on what Rose told Embolo to do for me Stindl is the perfect fit on top (is my 'top' your 'bottom'? ;-) but I know people who argue the converse... yes, a lot of people immediately started moaning: not better than Lang! he can run, but that's it! all this bad passes! and the sloppy ball control! and I said: give him 5 more minutes before forming an opinion! ;-) gifted with wonderful technical skills his market value would easily top 30M I guess after the match he told that he could play his passes blind at Salzburg and they got well received... and that it will take some time to do this at Gladbach... it all has to gel with the receivers... Wendt: decent passing skills are always welcomed! the eternal-Oscar will never retreat! ;-))) agree, and I assume Rose has planned to do so (Embolo benched)... but then Strobl's injury made him reconsider Rose said 4-3-3 is always an option and back three will soon be too (we have the players, he said)... but after listening to him for nearly two hours I'm still very optimistic... he categorically condemned the idea that he hasn't got the right players to do what he wants to do & to be successful he isn't listening!... by hearsay the last meeting with the C-bunch got out of hand... the C-twit (I looked into his 'portfolio', seems C is the only cash cow he has) called him a 'damn liar' and Eberl freaked out... at the end the c-bunch got expelled from our holy ground... so I guess Eberl isn't listening because he's still on tranquilizers [made the tranq.-thing up myself, that's how hearsay works ;-)] but here we go, new rumors: ACM, Sarr (again)
But perhaps not for Cuisnace. How many careers go to Bayern to die?? I very much doubt that Bayern guaranteed him a starting slot.....