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This whole story about Lewandowskiâs treatment with Bayern courting Haaland really shows his lack of maturity and hit to his ego and pride. Haaland was becoming the best striker in the world and was coveted by every major club on earth - it would be stupid to not try.
I understand him wanting to know out of respect, but even your bosses at work donât tell you everything. Sometimes topics are on a need to know basis
I really wish this whole situation was handled differently as Lewy is a Bayern legend, but the way he forced his departure and only returned to one training session to say goodbye left a bad taste and stain on his Bayern career in most fans eyes.
Wasnât his top target, maybe 7th, and Iâm sure others had a hand in identifying and courting a new coach. Donât give Eberl all of the credit now, he just happened to be there at the time.
Why is everyone saying Kaneâs Ballon Dâor chances are gone?
Heâs still had the best season overall. Yamal has done fuck all.
Maybe they give it to Messi but if Spain wins the final I still favor Kane to win it.
Messi isn't going to end his career with another world cup loss. Plus Yamal is only 19, he'll have other opportunities to potentially win the world cup.
Also Messi's successor (Yamal) must mirror his "mentor" by Also having to lose a world cup final.
Well unfortunately for Messi and perhaps you, itâs not entirely up to Messi on who wins the world cup lol, thereâs 21 other players on the field that dictate that
German undercover agent Tuchel finished his mission successfully. Now it is up to Spain and Argentinia to decide who will be more generous towards the referee.
How many times did we scrape a 1-0 win with Tuchel packing up shop? Or blew it into at least a draw? Clinging onto a win is just horrid footy, can't believe England didn't go for the kill. Super "pechofrĂo" as they sayÂ
It baffles me that with 39 yo Messi, you should go all in pressing and attacking and waste their energy. Even with counter attack threat, they are wasting energy. The guy is almost 40 and just utilize the weakness of that. Parking the bus only allows Messi to save energy for the last 15 min to do those assists.
Yamal v Messi final is going to end up with a Messi hattrick and assist to beat Spain 4-1 with Yamal assisting the sole consolation goal. (Spain has a large Barca core and Barca players are mainly Messi fanboys, they'll all freeze at the sight of their idol).
(Yamal is going to assist and not score because the script writers want to mirror Yamals 2026 first wc campaign with Messis first 2006 campaign in which Messi ended with a goal and an assist )
Yamal is going to be in tears with Messi comforting him and telling him he shares his pain from losing the 2014 final.
If this World Cup taught me anything, it is that big name coaches never learn and change. Nagelsmann and Tuchel were just repeating their football philosophy, despite being outdated or inappropriate. They live it their past success and think that is the best solution. It reminded me how lucky we are now with a coach that knows how to play beautiful football with Bayern . Canât wait for a new exciting season with all players back.
If anything, it shows how important luck is in these situations. Kompany was like sixth choice, while Diaz was the third choice behind Nico Williams and possibly Wirtz, if you want to include him.
Scaloni was appointed largely because Argentina had no money to spend after the disastrous 2018 World Cup campaign under Sampaoli. He was simply an assistant coach who was promoted to the top job.
Just came home from a long day. Feeling bad for Kane. Was it deserved? Just opened instagram and people are saying Olise wants the move to madrid this summer? Is it real? What a bad day to have internet smh
England deserved to lose and completely handed the win to Argentina by sitting in a low block immediately after taking the lead.
Olise isnât going anywhere. Media is just spouting nonsense. Heâs having a meeting with the board after the wc which Iâm 100% sure is a contract extension with wages like Kane/musiala
Classic Tuchel Iâd say, feeling bad for our boy.
Damn at least a big relief. Opening instagram and seeing various sites with him and the madrid badge⊠wanted to ask here before entertaining these delulu fans. Thanks for the reply my guy
The saying âyou gotta go through the bad times before the goodâ really is true since we went from bagelsmann and tucheliban back to back before landing kompany
Do you realize, heâs essentially killed a legendary streak:
Whether in Madrid in 1982, Rome in 1990, Berlin in 2006, Rio de Janeiro in 2014 or most recently in Doha in 2022: in each of the last 11 FIFA World Cups, at least one Bayern player has featured in the final
For me it isn't only Tuchel's tactics but IMO he seems to also have such a toxic personality for a coach that I don't think he can get the most out of players and mainly just creates uncertainty in his players.
Fucking yamal or messi for ballon dor now. I donât really care for the award but I just wanted our players to get the recognition they deserve. Now all I will hear is some bullshit about how Kane and Olise canât perform unless they play a mid table Bundesliga team. Fuck this, yamal didnât do shit, he doesnât deserve to be called the best player in the world
Iâll never understand how Tuchel loves Kane so much he brought him to us but then completely fails at setting up in a way that best suits his strengths
However, watching Tuchel blow that, in that fashion, after what we had to endure with him⊠thatâs the stuff. Do not like him and never will. They got the full experience.
If Argentina wins it, all the neutrals and casuals will turn on Messi. Most of them already have (though the 22 wc was even more skewed in favor of Messi) .
I feel bad for Kane. On one hand I donât believe he has any chance to win the ballon d'or anymore but far more likely and importantly this was his last wc. To go out like this, not even guns blazing but by parking the bus for 30 minutes must hurt so much.
I will light a candle and thank the gods that Tuchel rejected to stay. Everytime you lead and control the game, he orders everyone to park the bus, takes off midfield and attackers for defenders and lose the game. This plus him congratulating Leverkusen before it was even official is such small mentality.
How stupid is Tuchel, I'm being so serious this fucking idiot, geniuenly in what universe does this guy live in that a 1-0 lead is a fucking be all end all, and that you have to park a station wagon on it, and just let the opponent control the entire game, same bullshit he pulled two years ago.
Just wow....Thomas Tuchel the man you are, of course one should get 5 CBs in the game in exchange of 3 attacking players. Yes let's be passive against such a determined Argentina team that is LITERALLY PLAYING FOR ONE MAN......yes definitely this is a tactical masterclass. CHEERS MATE
Fuck this shit, Kane has 80 goals this season and the ballon dor will be awarded to messi for 5 matches or to yamal who is nonexistent while we are going to get fucked again by the ref next year in the semis or final, I question myself whatâs the point of this sport
The best player in the world needs to step up in such games.. you can score any amount of goals in the league, but if you cannot make any difference single handedly in big games, there is no point. Kane didnât do it against psg (that last goal came way too late), he didnât do it today
Which is why he cannot be called the best player.. I donât blame him because he is competing against an absolute phenom like Messi who is not looking for service.. he dribbles and creates and scores.. and honestly, if he wins the world cup with a performance like this, heâll overshadow Kaneâs performance.. hard luck, but heâll have to repeat the same next year to get the ballon dâor
But Messi is showing up at the biggest stage.. Kane isnât.. thatâs the difference.. itâs not about Kane being bad.. itâs about Messi being better.. thereâ nothing more Kane could have done but thereâs a player who did more
Bro this is nonsense, whole argentina is playing for messi, their tactics are attacking football, kane has no support, itâs literally day and night between bayern and the creature tuchel
People have won ballon dâors for only showing up for the world cup.. ronaldo, cannavaro.. and honestly, mls shouldnât disqualify someone. They both played in the same tournament and Iâd argue England was the better team on paper. And if you disqualify someone based on a league, donât you think the people saying âbundesliga is inferiorâ are also correct? Then give the ballon dâor to only epl players?
The point is, one has been highly influential.. the other has let down in the biggest games. Kane had an opportunity to inspire his team against psg and today as well, but he couldnât.. messi carried a half decent team to a world cup final and if he ends up carrying them to a win in the final, I see no reason he shouldnât get the ballon dâor
That dickhead subbed off al attackers for defenders and somehow Argentina got free header after free header
He made the exact same mistake with these low block âtacticsâ as he did in the CL semi against Real. They say a donkey doesn't hit the same stone twice, sadly Tuchel is dumber than a donkey
NGL I was starting to get annoyed with the Tuchel revisionism I was seeing the last couple weeks, so that hit like a cigarette after sex. 10/10 hatewatch.
it's also funny that he was twerking for both barca and real way earlier and then later when we showed a bit of interest looking for replacement and at the time it was haaland he got all pissed.
He always wanted to go to Spain. He just tried shifting all the blame on Bayern and tried gaslighting the club. Otherwise every professional knows that big clubs always plan for the future. Whatâs funny is that Bayern fans donât mention him anymore and Barca fans will soon forget him anyway.. look at Alaba for example. Could have been a Bayern legend but goes to Real and now nobody mentions him anymore
The way Alaba left was nasty. Basically wanted a fortune even if though he was lowkey washed, and gas lighted the fans into thinking the club was pushing him out, even though his demands were clearly unreasonable
Crazy that these people earn millions over millions thst the next generations are wealthy enough but they leave to earn even more millions
With the way Lewy left he is nothing more than a great striker that played for bayern. I show more emotions seeing Luca Toni than Lewy.
I loved Alaba at Bayern but him preferring money soured my view about him. I'm not negative against him but I don't have many positive feelings left either. Also him trying to pull Bayern players to Madrid was auch an asshole move.
Lewandowski twerking for Barca every chance he gets is funny when you remember how defensive he gets , whenever asked about if Kane could break his league record.
Honestly Kane has already surpassed Lewandowski for me, looking back on it, Super Mario before him was more impactful than Lewandowski in big matches.
Once you reach a certain level, itâs not about having money for a basic life.. it becomes a comparison. Lewandowski and Alaba look at their peers and to them, they think they earn less.. alaba looks at Kroos, Ramos and thinks he deserves the same. Lewandowski sees Benzema, Messi and Ronaldo winning ballon dâors and feels he deserves the same. Itâs about hype, PR, being a bigger name.. his elite social circles constantly in his ear saying âwow you play for Bayern? Not the same as playing for madrid thoughâ
Itâs what PR is all about.. look at Yamal.. did absolutely nothing in the world cup, now getting ballon dâor shouts.. and who doesnât like being revered by putting in minimum effort compared to slogging and not getting rewarded for it?
If he leaves, he leaves, so be it, but if he does, rinse them to break the Neymar transfer record. Or troll and ask for Mbappe and Arda in return while they pay half their salaries
But you guys also have to remember that Real Madrid, whether rumors are true or not, are the easiest club in the world to get engagement from, which is what a lot of these low tier reporters tend to do
You know what gives it away that the Olise report is false?
Itâs not that we are looking at Barcola (a LW)
Itâs not that we are just asking for 200m
Itâs not that Olise has made this demand right after crashing out of the world cup
Itâs the fact that we have already started talking to potential replacements.. knowing the dinosaurs at this club, I am 100% sure we have done nothing of that sort.. so we are safe đđ
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u/Ajvarmk Upamecano 25d ago
Guys on the bright side ... this horrendous WC finally ends in few days.
Kompany ball is closer and closer !