I'm going to Frankfurt and I'll be Rightback: Timmy Chandler at Eintracht Frankfurt

Is Germany unique for these kind of professional vs. amateur friendly matches? Seems like every Bundesliga squad does them, but I've never heard of an EPL squad playing one.

 

some Dutch ered teams do it too.

 

Everyone does it. Celtic played an amateur side today!

 

I wanted to ask this very question earlier. I wonder if its simply they can't book bigger $$$ teams or simply they prefer doing matches regionally and maybe help out smaller clubs with taking them on as opponents.

 

Well done

 

Not great news for Chandler: Manchester United and Uruguay international right back Guillermo Varela is set to join Eintracht Frankfurt on loan. Varela was on Uruguay's Copa America Centenario preliminary squad but did not make the final one.

http://www.espnfc.us/story/2914471/...illermo-varela-set-for-frankfurt-loan-sources

 

How good is the Left Back? If Chandler isn't the every game starter at RB, I'm wondering if he'll be able to get some time at LB.

 

Unfortunately, they have a set starter at left back in Bastian Oczipka, and they just brought in Oczipka's likely backup in Maccabi Haifa mainstay and Israeli international Taleb Tawatha.

 

#USMNT international Timothy Chandler shows off his 🏀 skills at @eintracht_eng's #BLMediaDays 💪 pic.twitter.com/0mJog3HUrX

— Bundesliga English (@Bundesliga_EN) July 21, 2016

 

why is this even a THING?

 

Back in 1999, Mike McCarthy was a first year QB coach with the Packers. He made Favre throw deep patterns into a garbage can. Favre didn't like it but he threw for a lot of yards that season (almost 4,100). GB had a mediocre season under Ray Rhodes and missed the playoffs. McCarthy was fired along with Rhodes, Sherm Lewis and Emmett Thomas. When he returned to the Packers in 2005, this time as a head coach, he made Favre and then Rogers to throw into the garbage can again. And they still do that.

It looks silly at first but it helped the QB's with both the passing accuracy and the trajectory of the flight. In this case, it's a ball control/touch exercise. Timmy could actually improve on both.

 

Starts today:

#LIVE#Eintracht's starting line-up: Hradecky, Varela, Abraham, Chandler, Oczipka, Hasebe, Huszti, Castaignos, Gacinovic, Rebic, Hrgota.

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht_eng) July 30, 2016

 

They beat the tomato can 5:0. Hrgota with the brace.

 

Starts today in friendly:

STARTING LINE-UP#SGE v @Atalanta_BC: Hradecky,
Varela, Abraham, Chandler, Oczipka,
Huszti, Mascarell,
Gacinovic, Meier, Rebic,
Hrgota

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht_eng) August 6, 2016

 

Starts in another friendly:

STARTING FORMATION
Hradecky, Oczipka, Chandler, Abraham, Varela, Hasebe, Mascarell, Castaignos, Meier, Gacinovic, Hrgota#SGE #wiescheeee

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht_eng) August 14, 2016

 

There's speculation that Hamburg are after Chandler. This was reported in the Hamburger Morgenpost early this morning, and Kicker has the usual ambiguous "no comment" from Frankfurt's sporting director.

The background is that Hamburg's current coach, Bruno Labbadia, was after Chandler several years back when he was the coach at Stuttgart.

 

I can see the thread titles already!

 

Not in the squad for the Cup game? Unless I can't read...

 

On the bench:

Die Aufstellungen #SGES04 #SGE pic.twitter.com/G408Ki7yt4

— Oliver Mayer (@OliverMayer_ARD) August 27, 2016

 

SUB
Chandler comes on for Huszti (55').#SGES04 #Eintracht

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht_eng) August 27, 2016

 

Starts today in a charity friendly match:

STARTING LINE-UP#SGE V @nur_die_bsg.
Lindner; Regäsel, Zorba, Vallejo, Chandler, Flum, Fabian, Blum, Gerezgiher, Huszti, Meier #BSGE

— Eintracht Frankfurt (@eintracht_eng) September 3, 2016

 

So is he injured or did Jurgen leave him off the roster on purpose? Sounds like he's up to his old tricks.

 

He wasn't on the final Copa roster and he hasn't been a consistent starter yet this season. Why would Jurgen call him in?

 

Chandler was on the final roster but was sent home because of the injury sustained in the BuLi regulation playoff.