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Very great read, German football seems to be the place to be right now. How many of these players are getting the transfer waves moving? I've heard of the GK that's going to Barca but otherwise I'm not that wise on the other players.
Arsenal have been linked with Josip Drmic of Nurenberg, he seems to be a young player with lots of potential. He's scored as much as Lewandowski this season supposedly (I haven't checked for myself). Do you have any knowledge of him?
And what about Dortmund? Do they not have any young German starlets coming up at the moment?
Nurenburg are plummeting down the table and will most likely be relegated this year which makes Drmic's goal scoring stats all the more impressive. I think he will be a good signing for Arsenal given the chances Arsenal create in a game. He's still very young too so will only improve unless he becomes a Bendtner. That said, the Bundesliga is a league that constantly has high scoring games, quite different to the Premier League where the defences are a little tighter, so take his goal stats for what they are but attach a caveat to them.
In the Premier League, I think he'll get about 15 league goals a season in a good year.
And what about Dortmund? Do they not have any young German starlets coming up at the moment?
21 year old, Jonas Hoffman gets a lot of praise for his dribbling & running onto defenses. And 20 year old, Marvin Ducksch shows promise from his reserve matches. Scoring 21 goals in 50 games. Dortmund have a very young squad anyway. All of their best players are still under 25. Robert Lewandowski is 25. Marco Reus, 24. Ilkay Gundogan is 23. The two centre backs Subotic & Hummels are both 25. Sven Bender is 24. Dortmunds biggest problem is lack of goal threat. With Lewandowski going they need more firepower than Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
I forgot to mention another talented player, 20 year old, Hakan Çalhanoğlu. Probably the only bright spot in a disappointing season for Hamburg, they've got the 2nd worse goals against record in the league. And they've got Johan Djourou in central defence. Things start to add up. Çalhanoğlu is a dead ball master. He scored a 45 yard free kick against Dortmund a month ago. He can hit a perfect weighted pass over a 30 yard stretch, weaves in and out of defenders. And can score as well.
Dortmund free-kick. Klopps face is a picture when he see's it go in!
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Çalhanoğlu mad skills
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I didn't realise Drmic was that young. He's come into his own in the 2nd half of the season. He scored 6 goals in the first half and 10 so far in the second. Nurnberg didn't win a game until January so that shows the quality of the team. If he plays in the Giroud role at Arsenal, he will need to learn how to hold and distribute the ball because he has a fairly low pass rate. There are a lot of Swiss players in the Bundesliga & not many/none in the Premier League. I don't think the style of play will suit them. After the World Cup his price-tag will rocket whatever.
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Top 5 goals from the Bundesliga last week. Leon Goretzka with a half volley through 5 players and Hakan Çalhanoğlu hits a 20 yard bullet into the bottom left corner.
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Bayer Leverkusen have bought Josip Drmić for £5.5m to help support Stefan Kiessling in attack. They've also paid £11.5m for Hakan Çalhanoğlu from Hamburg. A pretty good price for a quality young player. Fulham paid Leeds £11m for Ross McCormack earlier in the window. He did score 27 goals in the Championship last season but is untested in the Premier League.
The Duckman, Marvin Ducksch is going to get game time with recently promoted SC Paderborn 07.
Matchday 1 made Bundesliga history with Karim Bellarabi scoring the fastest ever Bundesliga goal in 9 seconds for Leverkusen.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Wolfburg's Junior Malanda had an early candidate for miss of the season. He couldn't control a cannoning rebound, hit his shin and it helplessly went wide.
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Hannover looked immense in their first game of the season. Bittencourt who was one of my youngsters to watch, showed Kevin Prince Boateng a clean pair of heels down the right wing, then put a sublime cross in the box for Edgar Prib to get on the end of to score. Then new signing Joselu who was a Real Madrid B top goalscorer, hit a swerving 20 yard strike for the winner. He nearly got another when his header rebounded off the underside of the bar.
Another easy chance for Wolfburg's Junior Malanda to score and he fluffs it again for a second week in a row. He gets himself into some good positions but he has no composure under pressure.
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A new record for the longest goal ever scored in the Bundesliga was set this past week. Paderborn's, Moritz Stoppelkamp hit an 82 metre half volley after Hannover's keeper came up for a last minute free-kick to try and get an equaliser.
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Chelsea's on loan striker Lucas Piazon hits a peach of a free-kick to score the winner for Eintract Frankfurt last weekend.
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From the sublime to the shocking. Philipp Hofmann misses a shot from 2 yards for Kaiserslautern in Bundesliga 2.
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Dortmund's terrible start to the Bundesliga season continues. They've lost five in a row and haven't won in seven games. They've played 10 matches and got 7 points. Compare that to their Champions League campaign and they've played 3 games and got 9 points.
Wolfsburg's Bas Dost has been in lethal form since the winter break. 11 goals in 6 games so far and has been helped by Kevin de Bruyne who has the most assists in the Bundesliga on 12. de Bruyne is not doing too bad at scoring either, he's on 8 goals for the season. They won't catch Bayern but if this team sticks together they should be a surprise package in the Champions League next season. Ricardo Rodríguez is one of the best left backs in the world right now.
Last weeks matchday had some crazy games. Leverkusen vs. Wolfsburg ended 4-5. Bayern beat Hamburg 8-0. Dortmund beat Mainz 4-2 & Bremen beat Augsburg 3-2.
Borussia Monchengladbach had a terrible start to the Bundesliga season. They lost their first 5 games of the season and were rock bottom of the league. Their well revered manager, Lucien Favre left. In stepped unknown Andre Schubert and they haven't lost in 9 games. Now they're 4th in the Champions League spot.
Next player off the German production line is 19 year old Leroy Sane. This guy is unbelievably talent with pace, eye for a good cross, shooting and confident play.
Hope they keep up the bad streak for another week or two.
With the Bundesliga title already sewn up and going back to Munich for another year. There is still plenty to play for in the Champions League spots. An ever rotating production line of new talent coming through. Its amazing to see such young players possess a devastating amount of skill, speed, poise & precision.
Schalke have a plethora of new stars on the horizon. Lewis Holtby is already in the Premier League & Julien Draxler's name is floating around everywhere as a transfer target. They also have "das wunderkind" Leon Goretzka a 19 year old midfielder who has been picking up game time and helping with the charge for Champions League qualification. 100% cross rate and 75% pass completion shows he's a brilliant provider at such a young age. The also have 18 year old Max Meyer. A little dynamo who's fast feet and dribbling caused teams problems in the Champions League. Schalke have already locked him down til 2018 so expect a lot more from him.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach have the amazing 21 year old goalkeeper, Marc-André ter Stegen. Unofficially there until the end of the season when he will transfer to Barcelona. No deal has been formally agreed but with Valdes out for months, I can see that being pushed through. ter Stegen is old before his years, brilliant reflexes, commands his area and a strong catcher at crosses. Does the make odd fluff once in a while. Don't mention the own goal trapping incident.
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Stuttgart have got the very impressive, Timo Werner. Only just turned 18 and already the youngest player to score two goals in a Bundesliga match. Can play up front or on the wing, he's very calm in possession and one on one situations. He scored a brilliant goal against Freiburg where he slotted it past the static Freiburg keeper. He's also got a contract signed until 2018.
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Hoffenheim are one of the most exciting teams in the Bundesliga because of their constant attacking and disregard to bother defending. On one wing they have German, Kevin Volland a 21 year old who keeps supplying all of the crosses and bagging a couple for himself. And then you've got Brazillian Roberto Firmino. In the second half of the season, the 22 year old has come into his own and doesn't stop scoring. He's full of pace and mazes through defences until he's got a shot away.
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At Christmas time, Hannover were in a sticky situation near the bottom of the table and had to sack their manager. As the new manager, Tayfun Korkut came in, he brought in 20 year old, Leonardo Bittencourt. A pacey youngster who scored twice in the first match and set up a couple in his next match. His movement and speed are deadly to carving open defenses. Very impressed with this guy in the last couple of months. Dortmund may try to invoke their buy back clause if he gets even better.
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Rising through the Bayern Munich ranks is Julian Green. An American/German 18 year old winger, who has scored 15 goals in 22 appearances for Bayern Munich II. Yet to make his Bundesliga debut, Green did make a cameo appearance in Champions League for five minutes. He has natural speed and produces pin point passing which was shown in the friendly matches during the winter break. He's made the ballsy move of picking the USA as his international team. Playing with the likes of Robben, Gotze & Ribery, will boost the impact of US football.
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Wolfsburg has got their own Wunderkind in Maxi Arnold, the 19 year old midfielder has an affection, for lashing the ball and scoring some absolute screamers. He's already has a 1 in 3 goal rate.
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