The German Football Thread

You raise some really good points here. Okay I was definitely exaggerating a bit with the relegation favourite comment about Mainz. I thought before yesterday that they might be in for a tough season. Personally I thought Choupo-Moting and Mueller leaving over the Summer was bad for them. Tuchel not so much because as you've said Hjulmand is a good manager. But I thought that with being knocked out of Europe that that might affect them psychologically in some way? I'm clutching at straws really. I think I was overly harsh on Mainz. I was surprised that they didn't beat Paderborn a few weeks back actually. My favourite lecturer for German is from Mainz so I should like them by default really.

You're definitely right about our squad. At the moment we have good players "on paper" but there seems to be a lack of cohesion in the squad. Schieber has been doing well, yesterday just was a blip. Ramos was going to leave, I know that. I just wish that it was possible to keep him a while longer. Our second half of the season was bad without him. For a while I thought we were in with a chance at European football. Still we have remained in the top flight despite all that. We weren't relegated and that's our most important goal. We finished eleventh last year and I was really happy with that. I need to let the Ramos thing go. We were payed well for him and he went to Dortmund. I have a soft spot for Dortmund. It's a beautiful club.

Yeah, you're right about Allagui. Signing Beerens and Haraguchi probably signaled to him that his time was at an end. No player wants to be a sub at the end of the day. We have made a lot of signings over the Summer that sound promising. We'll bounce back eventually! Freiburg on Friday will prove it, I hope!

It's so nice to have someone see my Hertha rants and dissect them. Most people I talk to don't know they exist! So thanks for reading my post and analysing Hertha from a neutral's perspective.

Saw Paderborn top is this real life?

I think Bayern will destroy them. They really need to bounce back after the result on Saturday and (with respect to Paderborn) they're not the greatest, although performing great just now.
Could really be a hiding for Paderborn, but stranger things have happened.


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Saw Paderborn top is this real life?

Vintage Dortmund to **** up when they have the chance to go top. The table is hilarious right now though.



Yeah, I definitely understand the frustration as Hertha dominated most of the game but then failed to make anything of it and didn't take their chances as well as Mainz, so there was more in that game for Hertha. Just think that the result shouldn't be overrated as Mainz are probably equally good on paper, plus now that they beat BVB the Hertha result looks even less bad I think you can't expect too much too soon of Hertha either; to get relegated (albeit unfairly if you think how the relegation play-off against DüDo went, lol), promoted and then finish the season like they did last season in such a short span has been a good achievement, and now it's just about finding the cohesion and stability that should, with the squad you have, see you finishing above the bottom half of the table. Seems like Luhukay is still testing around and rotating to find his best 11, once he has settled for one team, the team cohesion and stability should improve, and if that happens Hertha should be as good as anyone except the top 6-7 candidates. The question is of course how long that will take and how well the other teams will do in the meantime, but the season is long and all teams have ****ed up so far, so it's probably too early to make any predictions. The Freibug result isn't ideal on paper, but considering how the game went, it was a good performance from Hertha and showed some promising signs.

Yeah the Bavarian behemoth will destroy paderborn.

Robbery being fit will be vital to you guys having consistent results. If they play a few matches in a row and get a good result pep can start rotating for important matches(e.g. CL)

Any one else think Kevin Großkruetz is just the Dortmund version of Thomas Muller? Nt in terms of quality but in terms of personality and even style if play. Both not so keen on the eye but do the job


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Can see what you mean. They're both grafters who work hard for the team, you could probably put them anywhere on the field and they'll do a job. Muller e.g. in CM early under pep. Großkeutz playing from RB to left wing.

Also since they've both come from the youth squad as well. Although Großkeutz doesn't have that instinct that Muller has, Mullers mental positioning and off the ball ability is eons above. He's an interpreter of space literally.

The thing that swung it for me was seeing Großkruetz running with his shin guards and sick down to ankles, like Muller. Looks so stupid haha


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always though the socks down to the ankles look was brilliant, makes him look even more old school. Even then Muller couldnt be any more Bavarian if he tried, the guy is a time-traveller from 1974 tbh.