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Injured with muscle problems. Quite understandable if you consider that he's been out of game action since August. Also great to see Mateu Morey being back for the first team after almost 3 (!!!!!) years.

Interesting, what about the historic data mentioned? What about Ukraine being neutral yet moving towards Nato? My point is that your leadership offers nothing but smoke and mirrors for the Western audience in order to defraud the Western taxpayer to send money and weapons into the 2nd most corrupt country in Europe to keep a war going you have already lost. Kuleba fever dreaming of taking back Crimea , Zelenskyiii and his "spring offensive 23", Melnyk demanding trillions (with a t) of Euros in weapon deliveries while his son is chilling in Berlin. It's just funny that you mention PR in case of the interview. That's the point.

3-0 for the BVB against an injury plagued Freiburg! Man of the match: 75 M plus boni won't be enough, I'm afraid, especially when you see what Antony and Mudryk were bringing in. Malen now with 9 Buli goals. Fülle with 10 goals and 7 assists in the Buli for the BVB this season. Maatsen with an incredible assist for the 3-0. How he was ignored by Chelsea is completely beyond me. Tomorrow we have the Topspiel between Leverkusen and Bayern. The BVB gets Wolfsburg next and then its on to PSV.

I have to agree with most of the things @Livertool says here as well and the contrast in sharpness and intelligence to the clowns on the other side of the conflict is astounding. Be it Sleepy Joe, Mr Scholz, actor Selenskyyyi... Yes, most of the things he talked about, we talked about here for 2 years and basically confirms almost everything Prof Mearsheimer published. The main giveaways for me are: Putin sees Ukraine as part of Russia. At least it's deeply connected to Russia, so the war of attrition won't stop. Once support for Ukraine halts, he's open for negotiations. Nato won't expand into Ukraine. Still willing to send gas. I'm looking out for Prof Mearsheimer reacting to the interview and giving his opinion. Care to elaborate? Says the guy from the country that is doing nothing but PR moves for the Western audience.

Great interview, a little over 2 hours long: First 35-40 minutes Putin is giving a history lesson about Russia, which I found really interesting. With 30 minutes to go, Tucker then asks some questions about AI and wants to initiate a prisoner exchange , the last 10 minutes are about Ukraine once again.

@Livertool Women usually vote for this, so who cares? First Mitterand, now Helmut Kohl as well? https://nypost.com/2024/02/08/news/biden-says-he-discussed-jan-6-capitol-riot-with-former-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl-who-died-in-2017/

Oh Lord @Livertool is a gourmet! To me UEFA Conference League sounds more like Fish'n'Chips and fried Snickers.... Speaking of which, Meunier to Trabzon for free, he was our RB starter for the past 7 matchdays! We're not winning the title anyway, Ryerson is coming back and Wolf is not that much worse. Another 3-4 M saved in salary! Interesting interview with Deniz Undav about his development: Translated 13 goals and 5 assists in the Buli so far, despite Guirassy playing on the same team. One scorer in 63 minutes.

National Team player of the year! 3-2 for Leverkusen in a great match against Stuttgart. Now it's on to Bayern on Saturday. Wirtz is one heck of a player, just check out his assists for the 2-2 and the 3-2.

Sleepy Joe, picking up the "London Times" after chatting with Francois Mitterand from Germany...

10 % for the Big Guy 20 % for the little guy.

Back on top! #545 overall. Grimaldo is the current topscorer in Buli fantasy with 312 points.

Four titles, they said. Money well spent, they said. Give us more sugar daddies, they said. At least my boy Erik Ten "Inch" Hag knows how to run a first class organisation, dominating the league and even getting Lidl-Haaland back on track! Time for a contract extension!

@jerry Interview Nnamdi Collins, the pride of Polska, still staying with Eintracht Frankfurt 2.

Conference League or Cocoa Puff Cup don't count! Matthias Sammer, consultant to CEO Watzke, 2 years ago: "Salih Özcan will surprise a lot of people." Mainly surprising his own team-mates with the "passes" he dishes to them... Did we watch the same game? I didn't see much from JBG. Malen and Atomic Kittens need someone like Brandt or Reyna at the #10. Sancho maybe. Reus would also be OK. Maybe even Nmecha. All 5 were not available yesterday. Malen also needs someone strong on the other wing, with Brandt and Sancho playing again, his performance will go up. Similar situation with Old Man Moukoko. Alonso rested Frimpong today with his replacement Tella scoring twice. Bayern might have lost Davies to an injury. Levekusen has to go for the win next week.

Champions' League approaching in 2,5 weeks. Who is Pool playing against in the Conference League? Inter Turku, Agadam Qarabag, Izmirspor? Seems like the BVB sold Blank to Red Bull for 4+3 M Euros with a buy back clause of just 12 M Euro. If so, that's excellent cooking from GM Kehl. With Maatsen emerging, we can keep Bense as another CB backup and save money along the way for Maatsen/Sancho in the summer. Hardly anything good today in the Buli, but next Friday we have BVB-Freiburg and next Saturday Leverkusen-Bayern in the Topspiel!

0-0 vs Heidenheim. I'm feeling like Brocky's girlfriend: Disappointed and unsatisfied with the result! There's a reason why I only watched the 2nd half and ignored all offensive BVB players in fantasy. This lineup was pure Terrorzic-ball again. Fülle-Old Man JBG Malen Sabitzer- Özcan Absolutely no creativity, absolutely no connection between the different parts of the team, not even a hint of playmaking on the pitch. Fülle was all over the pitch, moving to the wings, playing as a #10, but these are not his strengths. Edin hates the way he plays. During the press conference he was asked about it and said that we still have Pohlmann (BVB 2) and Wätjen (17 year old youth player) who could fill in for Gio. Let that sink in. Pohlmann was getting minutes today, but that would have been Gio's spot, for sure. However once Brandt and Reus are back, there's no room for Gio on the team. Today, we would have been better off with Maatsen starting in central midfield. Speaking of which, the BVB sold some of its young players at the deadline: Blank, who debuted just 2 matchdays ago, goes to Red Bull Salzburg for up to 7 M Euros. Gio nets us 1 M in fees and saves us 2 M in salary. Dutch youth player Rijkhoff was sold back to Ajax for 1,5 M Euros. In Germany there's a proverb which can be roughly translated to "Little animals poop as well" . If you consider that we might get 12 M for Coulibaly (starter for Antwerp) and some Bellingham boni from Real, we might already have the money for Maatsen. Now we only need to find an idiot to take Malen and we have the money for Sancho as well.

Leverkusen supporters in Bremen: "There are many styles of music, but only two genders!" Leftist German FA is fining Bayer Leverkusen 18.000 Euros. Corporate cucks at Bayer accepted the fine and paid! Green politician in the Bundestag calls Leverkusen supporters "inhuman". 9 M Euro option to buy, while the BVB let him go for 0. Herr Flick is the Empty Stadium Merchant when it comes to coaches, Dahoud is the equivalent when it comes to players. Nice guy, but mentally weak. One of the most vocal players during games in the corona era, but shitting his panties once more than 10.000 people watch him play. In Stuttgart he'll be meeting Zagadou again, who tore his ACL yesterday. Sad situation for him, but the main reason why the BVB let his contract run out. Gio Reyna to Nottingham for half a year, however the BVB bosses were cooking again, having extended Gio for another year and excluding any kind of option to buy. To me, that could mean two things: They're looking to sell him in the summer, without pressure and Gio can pick a spot that suits him best. They know that Edin Terrorzic and/or Marco Reus will be gone after the season and he wants to have a shot to audition for Nuri/Nagelsmann. The BVB is playing tomorrow evening vs Heidenheim.

Welcome to my world! 18, 45, 180 man turbo SNGs on jokerstars usually run for around an hour and have some slight Unibet MTT feeling to it. However they're full of regs.

Couldn't resist:

According to tm, the BVB is at #29 in the world when it comes to spending on transfer fees since 20/21. The top-10 are all cheaters, sugar daddy and oil sheik clubs. RB at #12 spent more because they took in more (Gvardiol, Nkunku, Szobo). Benfica, Rennes, Inter, Atalanta and Ajax all made money selling players and had to reinvest. The BVB even spent more on transfer fees than Real Madrid! Bayern is the only respectable club here with a big transfer deficit (-150 M) and they cannot even field a team right now, since they blew it all on Kane. Gio Reyna taking the medical in Nottingham today! Don't have high hopes for him in the EPL. Yes, Edin did him dirty, but this is not the league for him. But yeah, in order to keep Maatsen and Sancho, we need all the money we can get from him and Donny Malen.

I think the BVB lost 150 M Euros during the scamdemic, definitely 4 M per home game. In addition to that, the BVB blew a lot of money on high profile transfers: Schürrle, Götze, Nico Schulz. Adeyemi, Haller and Nmecha did not show the results you'd expect from 30 M Euro transfers so far. This summer, Meunier, Wolf and Morey will turn free agents and free up 15 M Euro per year. 15 M Euros!!!!!!! Back in FM 2003, I always operated at a deficit in order to spend more money on salaries, thus fielding a better team. At the end of the year I always sold one of my stars to balance the books again, preferably one who's looking for a new contract with a higher salary anyway. I then tried to replace the star from within and signed new youngsters for depth. I think the BVB is running a similar scheme. On Sunday, we missed both Reus and Brandt and Reyna still wasn't getting the start, only being subbed on when things were looking bad in the second half. I think, he's gone.

Oh nooooo, not Lalo Salamanca Jota. Anybody, but him! Who's now going to warm the bench and serve cold drinks during the games?

Red Bull starting 2024 with 3 losses in a row. Bremen beating the Bayern curse, winning once again. Leverkusen with a 0-0 with Loldecky being benched (for now?). With a win tomorrow, the BVB could be looking at a 3 point lead on then 5th place Red Bull. We're never ever going to get rid of Edin... The top-15 right wingers between 23-30 in the world according to transfermarkt: Over his last 27 Buli matches, Donny Malen scored 15 goals and 5 assists. 75 M Euros + boni and he could be all yours!