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I'd rather have Nagelsmann or Xabi Alonso.
I don't want Zidane until Modric, Kroos, Benzema and Carvajal are gone.
We need new ideas and Zidane would make us play cross and pray from Carvajal's shit crosses to a 36yo at that time finished Benzema who wouldn't even be in the box.

 

8/47 cross success rate against Barcelona under Ancelotti.

Let’s not act as if we never played good football under ZZ.

 

Yeah, bringing someone who has no friendship with older players would be ideal. The last one who had the balls to do something different was Solari.

 

Bring on Escaloni

 

Tuchel has Guardiolas number, he's gone to Bayern to knock out City.

 

I don't see Xabi leaving Leverkusen just months after joining them. I think he's patient enough and too classy to jump the ship so soon after they gave him a job offer when he was with Real Sociedad B team.

Tbh, I don't think Nagel did anything especially impressive at Bayern. RM gets knocked out by Villarreal like Bayern last season and the entire forum would have turned on the coach.

They got outplayed at El Madrigal as well and were lucky to get away with 1-0 loss. Kimmich, Goretzka, Davies etc were already balling under Flick. If ZZ is interested, I'd go for him.

 

Also given the dirty politics Graet played against ZZ and how PSG were leaking through the media last summer that he won't get France NT job if he snubs PSG to wait for them, I don't want ZZ to end up at that hellhole club.

Get him back to the club of his life. ZZ is well aware of the politics between PSG and French FA as well. Juve is a mess off the pitch so his options are limited.

 

This shouldn't be this funny pic.twitter.com/oDvlph6Wle

— PLAYOOOOOFFS (@sthsthburner) March 24, 2023

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Julian Nagelsmann's (maybe ex now) girlfriend is reportedly leaving her role as a reporter at Bild newspaper at the end of the month, with her job causing a 'lack of trust' in Bayern Munich's dressing room

Last summer Nagelsmann split up with his wife Verena after 15 years together and it emerged he was dating Lena Wurzenberger.

Lena Wurzenberger and Julian Nagelsmann ended their relationship [@lwurzi via @BILD] pic.twitter.com/Tw7Vp9CQAB

— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSamMia) March 24, 2023

Lots of drama at Bayern.

 

What do you guys think about Muani?

 

Having a stellar season but should have squared to mpaypal for final chance vs Dibu...

 

The best defender on the planet is looking more and more like an immobile training cone

 

Pretty decent stopgap option until Perez stops playing it coy and decides to go all in after Haland or Mbappe.

 

I have lost interest in the national team scene because the reality is the team's aren't that good outside of a handful.

 

This French generation is so good that God was merciful enough to give them that idiot Deschamps. How the fck are Rabiot and Griezmann playing over Camavinga?

 

To be honest I have lost a lot of interest watching the sport this season. We are tedious and tiresome to watch. It's not enjoyable. It's a painful chore.

It's only the CL matches that I get excited about because the officiating will be better than La Liga and we will actually play with intensity to put on a good match

 

Yeah, same. That's why I'm hoping for Xabi or Nagelsmann to bring some excitement.
Zidane's ideas are stale, boring and one dimensional. Kinda like Carlo.
We have no identity as a team and that's largely shaped by Carlo and ZZ.

 

We need a change in personnel. Doesn't matter who managing if next season out starting team is still Modric, Kroos, Carvajal, Mendy... and if Benzema is still broken (he probably is finished as a player).

Even with that the officiating nonsense has really killed my desire to watch La Liga.

 

24-year-old (!) Kylian Mbappé passes Karim Benzema to move into fifth all-time in men's goals for France:

🇫🇷 Olivier Giroud (53)
🇫🇷 Thierry Henry (51)
🇫🇷 Antoine Griezmann (43)
🇫🇷 Michel Platini (41)
🇫🇷 𝐌𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞́ (38) pic.twitter.com/LNi643H8Ui

— B/R Football (@brfootball) March 24, 2023

 

I think they downgraded tbh