Other Sports: Soccer/Football Thread Part Six

TCTC

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I haven’t reached the point where I think they will, but I have reached the point where I think they could.
They are the best team in the league by far. If there ever was a team in the last 10 years that's good enough to end Bayern's streak it's them.
If they can't do it, I'll give up any hope for the league lol.
 
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They are the best team in the league by far. If there ever was a team in the last 10 years that's good enough to end Bayern's streak it's them.
If they can't do it, I'll give up any hope for the league lol.
I think “by far” may be over stating things a bit… at times Bayern have looked very good, especially Kane and Mane, but then at times they have looked very not so good. But there’s still too much of the season left to declare them dead and buried.
 
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I think “by far” may be over stating things a bit… at times Bayern have looked very good, especially Kane and Mane, but then at times they have looked very not so good. But there’s still too much of the season left to declare them dead and buried.
That's true, by far is a bit much. But they've been better than Bayern so far.
What's really impressed me though is how resilient they've been this year. All these last minute goals to win games. Great mentality. It really seems that Xabi Alonso has made this club that was always known for bottling title chances a winner.

But on the other hand, they've been there before. I remember the 2001/02 season when they lost the title on the last day of the season and then went on to lose both the Cup final and the Champions League final. That was rough.
 
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It’s ok for you to say that because by saying Leverkusen will win it you’re saying that your club won’t win it, which is exactly how ”reverse the curse” works.
Even if Leverkusen and Bayern both disappeared off the face of the Earth, Dortmund still wouldn’t win it this year :laugh:

My lofty hopes for this year are 1) Terzic out, 2) don't sell Reyna
 
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A little because I do truly believe he needs and wants the time off...if he takes another job this summer I will be vastly disappointed

I hear ya and I don’t know Klopp’s background, but that Munich job only comes around so often.... especially as a German coach. I’m obviously just spitballing but if it makes a Liverpool fan uneasy, I’m happy 😆
 

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I hear ya and I don’t know Klopp’s background, but that Munich job only comes around so often.... especially as a German coach. I’m obviously just spitballing but if it makes a Liverpool fan uneasy, I’m happy 😆
Maybe he sits out for a while and takes the German NT job when Nagelsmann takes the United job after ETH is inevitably sacked?
 

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I hear ya and I don’t know Klopp’s background, but that Munich job only comes around so often.... especially as a German coach. I’m obviously just spitballing but if it makes a Liverpool fan uneasy, I’m happy 😆

There's no chance Klopp takes the Bayern role. Short of something going on behind the scenes with FSG, I feel pretty confident after reading aome stuff today and talking to my loverpool supporter buddy that if he wanted to keep coaching, it'd have been with Liverpool.
 

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Is anyone going to be shocked when Munich fires Tuchel and Klopp gets hired this summer?
This summer definitely not. I wouldn't completely rule it out that he goes there at some point, but I wouldn't bet on it. The optics of Klopp at Bayern would be really weird. They're the complete opposite of what he stands for. So far in his career he's coached for working class clubs. And Bayern really aren't that. Would be a culture clash.
Personality wise Tuchel definitely is a better fit for them. Which is part of the reason why Tuchel at Dortmund didn't work out.

If anything I can see Klopp take the German national team job in a year or two.
 

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Do contracts even matter when you have Prem money?

They dont matter in any league if you have the power to back it up. Juventus disnt have to worry about contracts for the longest time (though I guess technically that's cause they were cooking the books, but I digress). Bayern disnt care about German contracts for a while cause noone would turn them down. Likewise Madrid and Barcelona, to some extent.
 

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There's no chance Klopp takes the Bayern role. Short of something going on behind the scenes with FSG, I feel pretty confident after reading aome stuff today and talking to my loverpool supporter buddy that if he wanted to keep coaching, it'd have been with Liverpool.

Seems like it but the timing is interesting
 

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Thank god the PL is back so my flailing fantasy team can distract me from the futile Flyers
 

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