Yeah he was never gonna come here was he let's face it, not surprised he's gone to Bayern, they're a top club who are willing to spend money to get success.
Yeah he was never gonna come here was he let's face it, not surprised he's gone to Bayern, they're a top club who are willing to spend money to get success.
Big fish in a small pond. Signing for Bayern is an easy option. No other German club can match their spending power and he'd have to be a complete mug not to win anything with that team within 3 years. The main aim must be the Champions League because the title should be easy for him. So much for wanting a challenge.
going to city and chelsea would have been much harder i agree.
he should have come to The Best League In The World with The Best Defending In The World and The Best Football In The World.
Face it, the Bundesliga is a better league, with better standard of players and Bayern have a great pool of youth players too. it's pretty lazy to say bayern will dominate given this will be their first title in three seasons.
Why the fuck would he want to come to England for?
Last edited by Kano; 16-01-2013 at 06:33 PM.
Bayern are the richest club in Germany and are like the Real Madrid of Germany but there isn't a club in Germany that can match their spending power. I'd have more respect for the guy if he'd taken on a smaller club and done what Klopp has done with Dortmund. Winning the league with Bayern isn't something to shout about. What Dortmund and Klopp are doing is. And no, England isn't the best league in the world, I don't get swept up in all that hype. But he'd have a serious challenge on his hands if he were to pick any of the top clubs here because he'd have rival clubs looking to match him all the way. If he goes to Bayern and blows Dortmund away by spending millions, I won't respect that.
I'm not trying to play Devil's Advocate here, but in what way is the German league better than the Premier League?
Given that hardly any player who is signed from Germany to play in the EPL flops on these shores, I can see the logic, but it would be interesting to know why?
Formerly TMOKJ
did you see dortmund humiliate our champions twice this season? schalke outplay us twice and of course bayern would beat everyone in our league?
the league is run far more sensibly in financial terms, no billionaires can run in and screw it up and in general it is on the rise, whilst ours is on the way down. just because sky and all those muppets hide behind billions and pwetty graphics, there is no hiding the quality in the league right now has been going down for a few years.
pep just went there - the most sought after manager in the world right now. who is to say mourinho won't follow? the arrogance of the papers made sure we all believed it was only chelsea or city he could roll into but this is a sharp reminder of where this league stands right now.
I think they tend to have "fuller" stadia than ours, when it comes to filling out the crowds. The way coverage of Bundesliga games is buried and broadcast at some unGodly hour on an extra-terrestrial channel that we have to pay more for gives the German league an enigmatic quality.
I also believe that the matches are much more competitive, no? In spite of the riches of Bayern, you could tune into a game that they'd play against Schalke, say, and expect a closely contested 90 minutes.
Compare this to our recent games against Manchester United, which the rest of the world tune in to with eager anticipation.
Formerly TMOKJ
He'll be the next United manager, I'd stick money on it.
why on earth would he want to take charge of one of the worlds biggest clubs, with a huge reputation and respect across the game? a club with a history bigger than ours, city's and chelsea's and one that would have been part and parcel of his childhood footballing world? not really hard to guess is it. bayern munich and barcelona on your CV? yes please. how many top rate managers go to a small club following huge success? i didn't see maureen doing so. he won't be walking in with no expectations and the CL is part and parcel of that, so it is complete arrogance to think that he would come to a declining league over one that is clearly on the rise. in my mind it's a brilliant move - completely left field and unexpected, yet somehow it is the easy route? do me a favour.