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On this week’s Gegenpressing podcast, Manu and Stefan sit down to discuss Germany’s two World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia and Northern Ireland. They breakdown the defeat in Bratislava and the victory over Michael O’Neill’s side, debating whether or not Julian Nagelsmann is doing enough to blood new stars for the national team, rather than relying on the same, old faces. They then discuss Stefan’s big article on Transfermarkt at the weekend, which broke down how much money the Premier League had spent on Bundesliga players in the summer transfer window and his discussions with Bundesliga executives about the quantity and quality of players that left the league for England. Enjoy!
Chapters
00:00 International Break Reflections
03:11 Germany’s WC qualifiers against Slovakia and Northern Ireland
29:07 The Impact of Premier League Money on the Bundesliga this summer
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12 Comments
I had a huge faith with both Hansi Flick and Julian Nagelsmann, both disappointed me. They are not fit for GERMAN National Team!!
Germany has the same problem Bayern has, there's no fitting partner for Kimmich when he plays central midfield. Putting Stiller there is basically like playing with two Kimmich in the center. Also there's the fact that Sandro Wagner is gone, who seems like a better motivator than Nagelsman
Germany must go back to very basic of football first, how pass, how to shoot, how to head, how to not to miss pass in lazy way, how to tackle , how to press without loosing ball control, how to make a proper set piece movement, how to be a clinical, how to dribble , how to win the ball from one to one battle, how to make give your all mentality…no more joke in national jersey…without these, no tactics , no coaching will work. May be we need the old teacher like Louis van Gaal to select good player and teach the basic first.
Goretzka and Kimmich are locals in world football. They are not the right leaders. Nagelsmann same, local. DFL football is losing ground quickly. Too much netzwork interests. The network is more important than selecting the best players.
I don’t think it’s a coaching issue. If Hansi Flick and Julian Naglesmann cannot coach them, it’s on the players. They’re not good enough
Finally! Ive been waiting for this lmao
Man… Nico Schlotterbeck can't come back soon enough both for Dortmund and the national team. When it comes to strikers by suggestion is we start handing out passports to strikers in underperforming national teams lol
This is so 2000-10s England. We’ve basically switched places.
Nagelsmann is a coach who needs 15-20 top to great players to implement his ideas. He doesn't have that. And I doubt he is the man to coach the mix of only a few great and many mediocre players (a bit like 2002 in Japan) that is at his disposal now. For that you need a blue-collar guy, one who gets his hands dirty, goes down to the nitty-gritty, etc.
The man who got his well-deserved good-byes from German football before the game must have wondered watching the game what has happened to the German CBs. No football intelligence, no position play, no initiating the game from the back, scaredy-cats at minimal pressure. Anton, Koch, Rüdiger, Tah, Groß, Undav, Führich, all our LBs (Gosens, Raum, Mittelstädt) do NOT belong in the national team. Teams like France, Spain, Portugal and others produce players like they have production sites going. France has at least 10 forwards for two or three positions. Where are our talents? We have a population of 80 million, the most in Europe, but cannot develop a few players at top level every decade? I say tank the WC, make a radical cut NOW, insert young players, regroup, and aim for 2030. This team will only embarrass itself next year.
BTW, Gündogan was also NOT a great player (same goes for Havertz) and no captain material and Kroos, a great player once in the NT, but mostly at Real, had not developed his game since the 2014 WC (cause at Madrid he didn't need to) and thus also didn't offer much at the Euros.
What game did you watch? Wirtz was good for maybe 10 mins against NO.
As for Kimmich, I think at Bayern and the NT he never had a coach who developed the right persona for him, who put him in the position where he was able to serve the team best. Who taught him not to roam constantly in midfield trying to fix everything and help out everywhere. Part of the reason for that is that he has no congenial partner who supports him. Kimmich is best at the 8 position where he doesn't have to worry about defending deep, can string passes together or play his trademark dink balls. Yes, in that case he cannot drop back and play RB, but you cannot have everything.
Not a matter of national pride: The Germans are also sick of seeing that 95/96 generation around Gnabry/Sane/Goretzka/Kimmich disappoint us at every turn.