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Page 1 — Beef with Didi
Page 2 — German crisis in the Women’s Champions League
Who plays against whom and when?
Which game should you definitely not miss?
Freiburg against Stuttgart. The first leg was something of a first indication for all football fans that something was brewing in the south: Stuttgart won 5-0, Serhou Guirassy scored three times. The second leg on Saturday is the first BaWü derby in years that VfB Stuttgart can start as favorites. The situation in the country has shifted back, Christian Streich’s hearts are still flying, but not quite as many points. And now Porsche can really get involved in Stuttgart: A week ago, VfB announced the entry of a new investor who could bring them around 100 million euros. The Volkswagen Group is now associated with the third Bundesliga club, which is why the process was examined for a long time. The Chinese may be rocking electromobility, but German car manufacturers are still ahead in football.
Which game can you safely miss?
Difficult to say: Bochum against Augsburg or Wolfsburg against Hoffenheim? There are two games from the big no-man’s land of the Bundesliga. There are eight points between 14th and 16th place, which is why all teams above this currently appear to be as endangered as Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. The relegation candidates had not been this far behind for a long time at this point. Good for the middle class clubs, it’s just a shame that there isn’t much going up (i.e. towards Europe) for most of them. The performance gap in the Bundesliga is too great, where the top teams collect an exceptionally high number of points and the bottom teams collect an exceptionally few points. And that’s why the Bundesliga no-man’s land is big, with clubs from each other meeting on almost every match day. Luckily, the private equity investors will soon come and tell the league how to bring such games to fans.
Who is in the spotlight?
The player agents, because Thursday was deadline day. The day when cell phones and fax machines buzz and the darlings of the industry try to do something good for their clients and their own savings bank account. Now, for example, Daniel Caligiuri is moving to upper division club FC 08 Villingen or striker Hugo Ekitiké from PSG to Eintracht Frankfurt. And FC Bayern bought the small winger Bryan Zaragoza.
In general, the Munich team made late deals; they also brought right-back Sacha Boey from Istanbul for 30 million. Maybe the shopping is meant to distract her from her beef with Didi Hamann, who Thomas Tuchel described as the “biggest misunderstanding since Jürgen Klinsmann”. Or about the upcoming program, which, in addition to the game against Gladbach on Saturday, consists of games against Leverkusen, Leipzig and Lazio Rome. A good right-back could help. After his arrival, Boey immediately said that he wanted to be as good as Philipp Lahm. This is probably called the best case scenario. The worst case scenario would be that in four weeks Dietmar Hamann would describe it as the “biggest misunderstanding since Bouna Sarr”.
Freiburg against Stuttgart. The first leg was something of a first indication for all football fans that something was brewing in the south: Stuttgart won 5-0, Serhou Guirassy scored three times. The second leg on Saturday is the first BaWü derby in years that VfB Stuttgart can start as favorites. The situation in the country has shifted back, Christian Streich’s hearts are still flying, but not quite as many points. And now Porsche can really get involved in Stuttgart: A week ago, VfB announced the entry of a new investor who could bring them around 100 million euros. The Volkswagen Group is now associated with the third Bundesliga club, which is why the process was examined for a long time. The Chinese may be rocking electromobility, but German car manufacturers are still ahead in football.
