DerZuhälter;203493804 said:
Holy shit. Not even left yet, and already BVB fans retroactively changing the past. Last year everyone was shit, not only Hummels. He had a couple of mistakes defensively this year but you are already sweeping his essential build-up play and offensive capabilities completely under the rug.
And then you mention Ginter?? GINTER FOR CHRIST SAKE?
Ginter is a piece of fucking shit. He was shit as RB and he'll be shit as CB.
His positioning is shit, he has no situational awareness and doesn't know how to hold a line and how much space he should allow between him and the guy next to him. He was literally the worst defender Dortmund had on the pitch this year, worse than Neven.
Only because he managed to provide some crosses that didn't land in between Block 34-30 / 54-50 people have this skewed perception that he actually is worth anything. He's shit.
Instead of talking shit about Hummels and praising Ginter in the next sentence you should start to cope with reality and maybe accept that Hummels leaving is a big fucking deal and he isn't someone to be replaced easily.
Or how about you stop talking shit and actually read my post?
I've never said Hummels' attacking abilities are not important. And I said Hummels was shaky in the last two years
under Klopp, obviously not talking about this season. Also, yeah, everyone was shit last season. But a captain coming back who lacks ambition and is also overweight just leaves a worse picture than, say, Schmelzer or Kagawa, even more so when he lacked concentration the season before as well.
And I did in no word praise Ginter. What I said is that I hope he finally does what we bought him for. And that was to be our CB when one of Hummels, Subotic and Sokratis leaves. If there is any evaluation in this single sentence, then it is that Ginter should get his shit together and finally do what we bought him for.
Seriously, the only thing worse than the blind Hummels hate from BVB fans (which again, I clearly did NOT do) is the blind Hummels apologism like that SZ article ("Why I clap everytime Hummels touches the ball" or something) or which is common among teenage girls who have their room plastered with actual Hummels wall paper.
Hummels leaving isn't great but it's something everybody has been expecting to happen sooner or later. What we didn't expect is that he's leaving for Bayern. This doesn't change anything related to replacing him on the pitch. It only changes which memories he leaves behind at BVB fans, and that won't be a good one.