@WuDu wrote: @BonusPater wrote: On paper, Schalke did have a significantly stronger team this season, and if we forget about Rudy, the new signings have actually done pretty well (really impressed by Sane). It's the top-performers from last season who have really disappointed. Sebastian Rudy hand-picked by Tedesco, the most expensive transfer with 16 M Euro, not even making the game-day roster yesterday. In 16 games, he was sick just once, however only played in 8 of those 16 games. The only game when Rudy started and you actually won was the game against Nürnberg! Mascarell, hand-picked by Tedesco, 10 M Euro, with just 169 minutes in 4 games so far. Mendyl, 6 M Euro this year, has been an absolute disaster. Uth with just 1 goal in 11,5 hours of Bundesliga football. Don't put it all on 45 year old Naldo to carry the burden... @jerry@cris1285 I watched most of the BVB games this season. You have to take the schedule into consideration here! We played a tough game against Bremen on Saturday, Düsseldorf on Tuesday and Gladbach on Friday. After 4 tough months with 25 club games, you have to rotate a little if you play 3 games in 6 days! The rotation wasn't the problem. Bruun-Larsen was our starter on the left side just 10 days ago, Pulisic is probably going to Chelsea for 66 M Euro, Schmelzer played OK (for his abilities ) against Monaco and Götze started a lot of games as the False 9 (even against Bayern). Alcacer with the goal and Sancho with the great pre-assist even produced off the bench. The problem was that in contrast to S04, Düsseldorf has a competent coach that knows how to park the bus and doesn't think he's smarter than he actually is! The 1-0 was a stupid mistake by Bruun-Larsen which led to the Lukebakio counter attack. Lukebakio also scored 3 times in Munich. The 2-0 was a long distance goal by their right back and I'll doubt he'll be scoring one like this again in his career. And then you're behind 2-0 against a white hot opponent... However, I'd prefer to not see Bruun-Larsen, Pulisic and Götze tomorrow against Gladbach. Then we'll see. BVB-Gladbach and Frankfurt-Bayern are the games to watch. If we end up just 3 points ahead, that would be a bad sign, for sure. But we also could finish the year with 6, 8 or even 9 points in front of the 2nd place. It takes time to settle in a new team Uth was getting better and better and had a few great games just before the unfortunate injury. Rudy I'm not gonna defend - wouldn't mind him leaving this winter. Mascarell has been a dissapointment indeed, but I don't think he's been that bad when he got the chance. Sane has been great. Skrybski has been good Serdar has been good. Wright (despite his bad first game) and Goller have been a positive surprise in the last couple of games. Mendyl is a fun one. He plays like a 15-year-old who's waaaay to excited, but with more experience he could become a really good player - just not in the attack
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