So what does everybody think about Kevin Kampl? He's a bit like Mkhitaryan so far except Miki has played to impress the fans while Kampl has played to impress the coach.
I think he is psychologically much stronger, has less pressure and more time to adjust and show his true value. I think he'll do well. He also fits Klopp's game perfectly and will be used in his preferred role. I don't expect to see the best of him until next season, but I think this transfer will turn out to be a successful one, unlike Miki.
Sorry mate, I think we both misunderstood each other here. I didn't mean Dortmund being in Pot 1 for next season (as I don't think we'll be in the CL anyways now, barring a miracle), I meant being in the EL next year could help us keep boosting our coefficients so that we can eventually become a Pot 1 side the year after as opposed to missing out on Europe completely which would leave us behind other clubs who are playing continental football and we could risk falling back to Pot 3 in the process. I did forget about that format change though so my point was irrelevant anyways, just thought I'd clear it up as it seemed like we misunderstood each other at first.
New York Times article on BVB For Dortmund, a Dramatic Fall, but Not From Grace DORTMUND, Germany — The home fans poured over the bridge from the city center toward Westfalenstadion, a wave of black coats and hooped scarves crashing into sausage shacks and beer kiosks. Finally, they arrived at the famed Südtribüne, the terraced stand at the south end of the stadium, which rises like a tilted baking sheet and clumps together some 25,000 spectators in what is known throughout soccer as the Yellow Wall. The singing and chanting started in earnest when Borussia Dortmund’s goalkeepers appeared for their pregame warm-ups (an event generally greeted elsewhere with ambivalence, if not complete ignorance). The stadium was in full throat by kickoff, the 80,000 fans, led by the Yellow Wall, shrieking and shouting as if this were a World Cup final instead of a league game against Mainz, a middling team from western Germany. They sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” They sang things far less polite.......... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/s...-fall-but-not-from-grace.html?ref=sports&_r=1
German singer jeered by Bayern fans when reminded she is a BVB fan :-D LOL @ her almost crying when audience chants for Bayern: http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/s...b-scarf-concert-munich-bayern-fans-boo-video/
In the video she actually didn't do much "brandishing"; a random fan gave her the scarf, and she got startled and hurried it out of sight.
What on earth is wrong with our defense? I didn't watch the whole match but only the highlights and during the 2nd half I shat my pants everytime Juve had the ball. Why are we not solid?!
Were we wrong to loan out Hofmann? He could have provided superior attacking depth compared to Mkhitaryan and Großkreutz, both of whom have seen significant playing time for pedestrian contributions.
Nah good on the Bayern consumers for showing some passion...u could hear a bloody pin drop at the Allianz on some nights (which is why they hand out the plastic calipers at the gates)
Kampl and Sokratis are doubtful for the derby, it looks better for Subotic. Kagawa will train away from the team today. Klopp: „The preperation basically starts for Erik Durm now who was either injured or ill in 2015 so far.“ http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...borussia-dortmunds-mainz-loanee-jonas-hofmann With Hofmann in the side, Mainz averaged 1.7 points per game and coincidentally 1.7 goals per game as well, yet when the young talent was on the injury table that dropped to 0.86 points per game and 1.26 goals per game. This was most notable at the start of the season when Hjulmand's side went undefeated in their first eight games of the league campaign, in which Hofmann started and played throughout in all but two. The German then ruptured a knee ligament and missed the next 12 games—a run of matches which Mainz only saw one win from.
A press conference scheduled Thursday had to be postponed due to the discovery of an World War II bomb near the Signal-Iduna-Park.
Oh don't worry, there are probably plenty of unexploded bombs left in Gelsenkirchen (just in any German town). Dortmund as part of the Ruhr Valley (the former industrial heart of Germany) was hit pretty badly during the bomb raids (my home town Essen arguably got it even worse) so this is nothing unusual. Honestly in these days the main danger lies not in finding those things but defusing them. German experts are (reasonably under those circumstances) the world's leading experts when it come to defusing WWII ordance, but due to the ravages of times those things have become highly unstable which makes it difficult to defuse sometimes. Which is why they are often forcefully blown up (with spectacular results as seen here)
Easy to say in hindsight. The expectations were pretty high at the start. Who could have foreseen such a disastrous season. Hoffmans been looking good
Ruhrderby is imminent, and no matchday thread?! C'mon @chewz ! I've got a good bit of banter image on standby
so weve moved up to 9th for the time being, but if eintracht gets any points from hamburg we drop to 10th. also weve reached 0 goal difference