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[Elchele]

Tough question : Tuchel is not progressing anymore, Dutt has been regressing, Streich is doing fine and Weinzierl hasn't proven yet that he can sustain this kind of performance.

So... it's a bit of a shot in the blue. If we go on talking about trainers, those in the BL are doing fine altogether with the noticeable exceptions that are Hyppiä and Keller. I would add that Lewandowski should go back at the head of Leverkusen, he was the best trainer they've had since Völler/Toppmöller.

Altogether, to me, Germany's third-best trainer is still Favre. He totally revamped Gladbach and maintained them in the first half of the table ever since. That's a mamooth achievement if we consider that Gladbach have long sucked ass as much as Cologne.

I agree on Lewandowski. At this point I think it's clear that he was the one managing Leverkusen last season.

Favre always chokes in the second half of the season, tho. I think Streich is better than Favre, but I think Weinzierl could end up being as good as Klopp or even better. What he has done in Augsburg is amazing

 

[Irminsul]

I hope Leverkusen and Schalke are two of those.

Why the fuck would we be one of those? We've had a transfer deficit of 5 (yes, five) mn € over the last five seasons. That's nothing.

 

[Elchele]

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expected, Bayern are the only ones in the top 5 who are making profit

obviously they won't ban big clubs, but at least this could help a bit in reducing the huge transfer fees and salaries and all the mess made by the fucking oil clubs inflation.

 

[dc89]

Nastasic was heart broken when we lost the final last season. This season he is injured.
Let's win it for Nastasic!

 

[Elchele]

Why the fuck would we be one of those? We've had a transfer deficit of 5 (yes, five) mn € over the last five seasons. That's nothing.

I read you're close to signing Wendell (LB) for €5,5M

fake edit: looks like it already happened :lol
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2013/0000287050.php

Leverkusen - Brazilian left-back Wendell will swap Gremio for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the summer after agreeing a five-year deal with the Rhineland club.

 

[Kenka]

I agree on Lewandowski. At this point I think it's clear that he was the one managing Leverkusen last season.

Favre always chokes in the second half of the season, tho. I think Streich is better than Favre, but I think Weinzierl could end up being as good as Klopp or even better. What he has done in Augsburg is amazing

We should be careful, what Klopp did was nothing short of a miracle. The non-exhaustive list of what he did in five years :

• made his broke club pay 4 M€ for a 19 yo Mainz defender (we are not even talking about the success he got afterwards)
• succeeded in keeping a defender from going back to his youth club, Bayern (we are not even talking about the success he got afterwards)
• hired a from the Ekstraklasa plus one half-assed defender from Hertha Berlin and turned them into world stars (Kuba was already here)
• got a former young genius back from loan from Feyenoord and turned him into a Real Madrid prospect
• bought a young man from Cerezo Osaka for 300'000€ and sold it for 50 times this amount
• actively helped a member of the third team to become the brightest propsect in German football and got him into the Nationalmannschaft one year after his breathrough in the BL
• he allowed a former prospect between posts to become a world-class shoot stopper after he was nothing but a default first choice
• managed to become German champion twice in a row with the handicap of having to build and finance a squad with limited means, the second year, he even got the double
• under his management and Watzke's/Zorc's, the revenue grew by 150% in the mid of a financial crisis and extensive wage dumping period in Germany.

Klopp is on par with the likes of Bill Shanky, Alex Ferguson and Santiago Bernabeu. He is the best trainer to have ever come out of Germany, and I doubt anyone during the next 30 years will be able to replicate what he did/is doing.

edit : let's recall what Dortmund was when he arrived : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAiV2Nx-g8

 

[Hixx]

I was nervous till I saw this picture. Now I've just got a massive grin on my face. 22 years since we were last in a final.

41 since we won one.

 

[Kenka]

Why the fuck would we be one of those? We've had a transfer deficit of 5 (yes, five) mn € over the last five seasons. That's nothing.

So you're next one who will get his heart ripped out of his chest ? You should be careful when you support Leverkusen, they can turn the brightest enthusiasm into the muddiest defeatism.

 

[Wilbur]

Klopp is on par with the likes of Bill Shanky, Alex Ferguson and Santiago Bernabeu. He is the best trainer to have ever come out of Germany, and I doubt anyone during the next 30 years will be able to replicate what he did/is doing.

Yurt will kill you

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhlfDtECEAANHdo.jpg:large[/IG]

I was nervous till I saw this picture. Now I've just got a massive grin on my face. 22 years since we were last in a final.

41 since we won one.[/QUOTE]

I'm delighted for you man, really hope you can win it.

 

[Irminsul]

I read you're close to signing Wendell (LB) for €5,5M

Yes, after achieving a surplus of somewhat around 13 mn € last season.

So you're next one who will get his heart ripped out of his chest ? You should be careful when you support Leverkusen, they can turn the brightest enthusiasm into the muddiest defeatism.

:lol

That part probably already happened a long time ago.

 

[Blablurn]

 

[L1NETT]

Have fun on Sunday Hixx lad, do better than we did last year

 

[Broder Salsa]

expected, Bayern are the only ones in the top 5 who are making profit

obviously they won't ban big clubs, but at least this could help a bit in reducing the huge transfer fees and salaries and all the mess made by the fucking oil clubs inflation.

Chelsea the original oil club (tm) isn't even one of those 76. Most likely it's not something Chelsea will get in trouble with in the future either because of how FFP is set up with write-offs and loop holes, there's a reason Roman was all for it.

All hail Roman

 

[Kenka]

Yurt will kill you



I'm delighted for you man, really hope you can win it.

Why ? He loves Licht. Hence, he loves me.
I'll throw in a "Trappatoni is good too" to make sure I will not be chased after.

Yes, after achieving a surplus of somewhat around 13 mn € last season.


:lol

That part probably already happened a long time ago.

You survived. You have the temperament of a warrior. Nowadays, I just want Leverkusen, Holzhäuser, Hyppiä and Völler to disappear altogether in a black hole.

 

[Elchele]

Chelsea the original oil club (tm) isn't even one of those 76. Most likely it's not something Chelsea will get in trouble with in the future either because of how FFP is set up with write-offs and loop holes, there's a reason Roman was all for it.

I doubt Chelsea are making profit, but as I said I don't expect FFP to ban big clubs or anything, it will just be a reminder to scale down the inflation of transfer fees/salaries.

 

[brokenbeans]

Nvm misread.

 

[Yurt]

Yurt will kill you

Völler to disappear altogether in a black hole.

No.

unless that hole is my ass <3

 

[Broder Salsa]

I doubt Chelsea are making profit.

As I just said, purely making a profit is far from what FFP is about. There's many write off's. Making a profit overall does not equal making a FFP profit.

 

[KidA Seven]

Arrow is probably the best thing on TV right now.
.

 

[Yurt]

True Detective had the best 5th episode this year, we'll give you that.


TD is HBO, Arrow is just a popcorn show tbf!

(like AHS)

 

[Willkiller]

Arrow is probably the best thing on TV right now.

Pulga, hold me.

 

[Meier]

I've never seen Arrow. I'll never see Arrow. There is no way a show on the CW will ever be the best show on TV. Gilmore Girls is as close as that network ever got or ever will get. Arrow may be decent, but it ain't the best. I can say that unequivocally.

This goal from Bilbao's Aduriz is absolutely incredible.

 

[Kenka]

unless that hole is my ass <3

I always knew you secretly were a Roma fan

 

[Salvadora]

It's a shame that we won't get the second season of True Detective until, like, late 2015.

I hope they go for something completely different and don't just try to emulate the first.

 

[Yurt]

It's a shame that we won't get the second season of True Detective until, like, late 2015.

WHAT?

 

[Wilbur]

WHAT?

They haven't started casting or or even announced it's being renewed yet. It wouldn't start filming until near the end of the year. Summer 2015 is a very optimistic guess.

 

[KidA Seven]

It's a shame that we won't get the second season of True Detective until, like, late 2015.

I hope they go for something completely different and don't just try to emulate the first.

I don't really care. It will be something completely different with no McConaughFu.

 

[Salvadora]

They haven't started casting or or even announced it's being renewed yet. It wouldn't start filming until near the end of the year. Summer 2015 is a very optimistic guess.

And as well as that, the shoot for the first took the first six (?) months of 2013 and we're only getting it now. Could be quite a while.

At least this stands independently.

 

[Blablurn]

Sorry, I don't have any local channels from Newcastle here. What show is this?

 

[KidA Seven]

Sorry, I don't have any local channels from Newcastle here. What show is this?

bla pls

 

[Slizz]

Sorry, I don't have any local channels from Newcastle here. What show is this?

How to Lose a Guy in 10 days While Being a Natural Born Killer.

 

[Blablurn]

I feel disconnected to my German friends lately. I try to hype Arrow or True Detective but it doesn't work with them. Watching shows in English? A no go for them. They are all just living their German lifes. Gaming? Almost none of them.

 

[Sato Koiji]

I feel disconnected to my German friends lately. I try to hype Arrow or True Detective but it doesn't work with them. Watching shows in English? A no go for them. They are all just living their German lifes.

Yeah mine too. I just call them blöde arschlöcher and then laugh and point the finger at them. True player!

 

[KidA Seven]

I feel disconnected to my German friends lately. I try to hype Arrow or True Detective but it doesn't work with them. Watching shows in English? A no go for them. They are all just living their German lifes.

They're basically German Hitchers. Hitcher doesn't like foreign films with subs.

 

[Slizz]

Its crazy that so many non-Americans here watch TD and here I am yet to even watch an episode.

 

[Wilbur]

Messi confuses me. He says he has no desire to watch the Godfather or anything like that but he loves Boardwalk Empire.

Messi. Pls. I love Boardwalk but Godfather is considerably better.

 

[Blablurn]

Yeah mine too. I just call them blöde arschlöcher and then laugh and point the finger at them. True player!

And when we are not around them we are the arschlöcher D:

 

[Meier]

I have total confidence in HBO to make another great season (many great seasons) of True Detective, but it's a shame Cary Fukunaga won't be directing it. I'm sure Nic Pizzolatto is going to get a lot of new opportunities as well which will vie for his attention.

 

[Wilbur]

Hopefully they get someone equally as skilled as a director next. Give me a whole season of True Detective by Wes Anderson pls

 

[Mr Cola]

anyone in the Uk had trouble with Virgin Internet recently? Today its been down three times for about 2 hours each and everytime its come on the download is 0.01, it will load reddit, not google, sometimes gaf. Probably should have called them but usually this fixes itself.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

I want the Coen Brothers to do a season of True Detective.

 

[Wilbur]

I want the Coen Brothers to do a season of True Detective.

They'd write it themselves though, as would Anderson or Tarantino. So it needs to be someone that lets Pizzolato do what he does and they do what they do. Fincher's obviously done work on HoC, but he's such a distinctive visualist that he'd be nice to see.

 

[Slizz]

People here should watch Terriers. Thats an incredibly underrated/cult classic show. 1 season and done, bittersweet ending but appropriate.

FX did probably the worst marketing of all time for it, but people still remember it.

 

[Salvadora]

anyone in the Uk had trouble with Virgin Internet recently? Today its been down three times for about 2 hours each and everytime its come on the download is 0.01, it will load reddit, not google, sometimes gaf. Probably should have called them but usually this fixes itself.

I've been having a bit of minor problems with them lately.

Everyday, without fail, the Internet will go down for approximately 20 minutes, at random times of the day.

 

[Broder Salsa]

People here should watch Terriers. Thats an incredibly underrated/cult classic show. 1 season and done, bittersweet ending but appropriate.

FX did probably the worst marketing of all time for it, but people still remember it.

I watched like half of it and stopped as I realized it got cancelled, that doesn't make too much sense but it just kind of turned me off it.

 

[Slizz]

I watched like half of it and stopped as I realized it got cancelled, that doesn't make too much sense but it just kind of turned me off it.

I've rewatched the show a couple times. Knowing it was just one season after the first time watching it and then watching it over I feel makes it that much more great.

Shit was good fun.

 

[Clegg]

Watching 'A Fistful of Dollars'.

There'll never be a partnership as good as Leone and Morricone.

 

[Wilbur]

Watching 'A Fistful of Dollars'.

There'll never be a partnership as good as Leone and Morricone.

Evra and Young

 

[Linius]

The world needs an Wes Anderson styled season of True Detective starring Bill Murray and Bruce Willis as the detectives.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Randy Andy, I watched Short Term yesterday. It was pretty good. But now I feel like I've watched enough movie for at least 2 months so going through that list is going to take a long time.