Germany's Quest to Not Embarrass Itself, the WC26+NL24-25 Thread

Germany could pull 11 random guys from Oktoberfest and still beat Portugal.. It's just how things go when you play us. Portugal forgets how to play football when they face Germany, complete bogeyman for us no matter what year or form your squad is in..

 

Ahem, you forgot the GOAT who is guaranteed to be the next ex-Werder Bremen Academy to get a DFB call up

 

Especially against Spain.

 

Not long now Guys. Admittedly we are decimated with injuries, but we have enough quality to beat Portugal and Progress to the Final.

 

This proved my point again. Wirtz chose Arne Slot over Company and he is not wrong. Arne Slot is such as good coach he won EPL without buying any new players.

Wirtz will be the perfect no.10 at Liverpool playing alongside Salah or false 9 or drift wide as left forward or even pivot AMC.

Company cannot give a clear plan how to play with Musiala because you also got Harry Kane up front there are not many spaces to rotate between the two.

 

Feels like Philip Coutinho moves to Liverpool…at least Wirtz chose a good coach who can help him develop which I do not feel could happen under Company
Musiala made zero progress this season

 

I admit I'm relieved Wirtz chose Liverpool, because otherwise the Bundesliga would've been bracing itself for another Bayern Decade.

 

I can't see how it still won't be another Bayern decade in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen is leaking talent and won't have the same performance as the last 2 seasons. The closest any other team came was, what, around 20 points? And that was without Musiala playing for a long stretch in the second half. I can't see any team getting close unless they do what Leverkusen did - find a U19, U21 superstar in the rough that Bayern doesn't want or can't fit in their squadron, and get lucky with getting a bunch of other players and a good coach.

Don't forget that Wirtz would cost Bayern about $250m Euros over 4 years (transfer fee + 4 years of salary). They appeared to be willing to spend that for Wirtz, maybe the money will go to some other player that could make Bayern even stronger.

I don't think Bayern wanted Wirtz for BL dominance, I think it was for the CL. Bayern's' success is more determined by CL performance than BL performance. The impact of WIrtz not in Bayern and with other BL teams not completive in CL, we could be looking at Germany's UEFA coefficient dropping to 5th place (France isn't that far behind and PSG seems to be getting better).

Unless other BL teams rise to the challenge, it will be another decade of Bayern, because Bayern is not going to lower their standards.

Just my opinion.

 

Well, if we learned anything from the 2023-24 season, it's that the only way to wrest the Meisterschale from Bayern's grip is by essentially having to be flawless, as Leverkusen won it by going the whole season undefeated.

 

Tah has done better over the last 2 seasons tbf, so will probably do ok. But yeah overall not the best CB we have. Seems Flick was also keen on taking him to Barca.

 

Maybe Tah is a great influence in the dressing room.

 

Stiller and Woltemade will most likely leave. hope they are replaced with Germans next season.

 

Let's hope Stuttgart do way better in the EL next season than they did in the CL this season.

 

Our Own German Messi!

 

His nickname from his team mates lol. " German Messi"

Yes. Giant compared to Messi.

I definitely like his Mentality.

 

He plays like Haaland