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Jfl 2, bts 0

Gusev Goooaaallllllllllllllllllll

Gusev back on a line with Jack Hughes and getting PP time. JFL: 1, BTS: 0

Take Harper and then trade him for pitching.

He is a natural winger but he has all the qualities Bayern looks for in a LB. They use his pace to shutdown opposing teams counters and he can easily push the ball up the field and join the attack. He's been one of Bayern best players over the last 5 games he has started. Bayern has Gnarby, Coman, Perisic on the wing so Davies fills a bigger need right now at LB and overall learning the defensive side of things will make him a more complete winger in the future.

Davies played the full 90 minutes and while I did not watch due to work all reports indicate he was very strong.

Alphonso getting his fourth straight start today for Bayern in a big Champions league match!

P2F showed me the power rankings this morning. It basically is like.. 1. Two Guys one Cup Rest of the WTP KT7

Bayern is actually known to be like the Tampa Bay Rays of soccer ( A forward thinking FO) and while they spend a lot they don't really come close to other huge European Giants but they are very smart on how they spend their money.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/675490/average-bundesliga-salary-by-team/

Ten Hag seems like the logical choice esp in light that Ajax said they would not get in the way. I can see that happening over the international break.

The Athletic wrote an excellent article about it. Kovac had long lost the respect of Bayern’s players and had to go. Now expect Rangnick or Ten Hag rather than Mourinho Niko Kovac’s departure “by mutual consent” from Bayern Munich took almost as long as his 16-month spell on the bench. In truth, it has felt inevitable for quite some time. At the end of November 2018, in the wake of a defeat by Borussia Dortmund and an embarrassing 3-3 draw at home to Fortuna Dusseldorf, the bosses at club HQ Sabener Strasse had given serious thought to the Croatian’s dismissal. The champions were playing bland, unstructured football. There were incessant misgivings about Kovac’s limited tactical input — he notably told the team he was relying on their ‘automatisms’ from the Louis van Gaal era (2009-2011) in attack — and complaints about poor man-management emanating from the dressing room. One senior player compared the coach’s training to that of Carlo Ancelotti. It wasn’t meant as a compliment. But then the team started winning. They beat Benfica 5-1 to save Kovac from the imminent sack and won their next 15 league games in a row to close the gap to Borussia Dortmund. The fundamental doubts about Kovac’s ability to bring in a successful transition from the 2013 Champions League-winning side soon resurfaced, however, when a dour and hapless Bayern were humiliated 3-1 in the Allianz Arena by Liverpool in the Champions League. Asked about the manager’s future, executive chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge pointedly replied that there were no “job guarantees” at the club. The players barely hid their frustration with Kovac’s focus on fitness and off-the-ball positioning, which they considered unbefitting for a possession style that had been honed over the best part of a decade. At other clubs, the team might have acquiesced in their coach’s rather hum-drum approach. But the bulk of this Bayern side had witnessed the immense attention to detail and relentless perfectionism of Pep Guardiola. Others had worked with the likes of Jurgen Klopp (Mats Hummels, Philippe Coutinho), Julian Nagelsmann (Serge Gnabry, Niklas Sule) or Diego Simeone (Lucas Hernandez); all coaches with a clearly defined game-plan and a strong record of improving both players and teams. Kovac was never in the same category. Unlike his predecessor Jupp Heynckes, he also lacked the natural authority to get his charges onside on an emotional level. The 74-year-old’s success in his fourth stint in Munich indirectly set up Kovac’s downfall. By his own admission, he was only appointed as the “B option” in spring of 2018, after Uli Hoeness’ futile attempt at convincing Heynckes to stay had seen high-calibre candidates such as Thomas Tuchel run out of patience. Following the ignominious exit against Liverpool in Europe, Kovac lost the residue of authority he had still enjoyed in the dressing room. Ahead of the crucial home match against a faltering Dortmund, the team met privately and vowed to do anything to win the title. That still wasn’t quite enough to secure Kovac’s future, though. Potential successors were more or less discreetly sounded out in case Bayern were to lose the cup final against RB Leipzig. But they won that game, too. Rummenigge relented. Club president Hoeness, Kovac’s champion, convinced his fellow board members that the former Bayern midfielder was due a chance to grow into the role with a new, replenished side in 2018-19. A couple of decent performances and a freakishly efficient second half in the 7-2 win over Tottenham suggested that the gamble might pay off this season, but that false dawn only brought the underlying problems into sharper focus. Before too long, Bayern’s game once more resembled a string of individual, random efforts, made worse by a lack of cover in front of an injury-ravaged back four. Tactics aside, Kovac also proved his own worst enemy as a woeful communicator. He needlessly talked down the importance of club icon Thomas Muller (“emergency back-up”), said his players weren’t capable of playing high-tempo football of Liverpool’s ilk and spent his last days in the job fighting a desperate rearguard battle, telling the media that “they” — the team — were sadly lacking the right attitude to play more concise passes on the pitch. A nadir was reached in the first half of the deeply unconvincing 2-1 cup win over VfL Bochum last Tuesday, when the champions proved incapable of putting any meaningful pressure on one of the poorer sides in Bundesliga 2. Saturday’s 10-man, 5-1 capitulation at Kovac’s former club Eintracht Frankfurt was “no surprise”, Manuel Neuer felt: “The writing had been on the wall.” The same goes for Kovac’s long overdue end to his ill-fated tenure. The 48-year-old sensed that it was over for him. He offered his resignation on Sunday afternoon and Bayern duly accepted. Assistant coach Hansi Flick, who had of course been hired at the start of the season for this very contingency, will take over for the next two games against Olympiakos and Borussia Dortmund. Bayern will then carefully sound out contenders over the international break. Jose Mourinho’s chances to try out his newly acquired German skills are slim, however. The Athletic has been told that ex-RB Leipzig boss Ralf Rangnick and Ajax coach Erik ten Hag — who were both approached last season — are seen as the most viable options at the moment. Neither is a foregone conclusion. Rangnick would have to agree to work under sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic and modify his transition-based approach; to complicate matters, the 61-year-old might also have other openings in the Premier League soon. Ten Hag, 49, is relatively inexperienced at elite level but then again, the former Bayern youth coach would be much easier to integrate into the power structure of the club and seem a more natural fit for their passing game, too. Ominously for the Dutch champions, Ajax sporting director Marc Overmars declared last week that they would not stand in Ten Hag’s way of a return to Munich if Bayern really came calling.

Bayern just fired Kovac

Damn he looks like he's lost 20-30 lbs already.

The Athletic wrote an article breaking down each teams needs and Baltimore made me laugh. ____ Baltimore Orioles 2019 finish: 54-108 (.333), 5th place 2019 3rd-order winning pct.: .363 Realistic 2020 objective: Securing another top-five draft pick in 2021 Free Agents: DH Mark Trumbo Biggest Need: A reason to watch The Orioles’ front office isn’t trying to win major-league games right now. That’s one reason they’ll be looking to trade their best everyday player from this past season, infielder Jonathan Villar, who is heading into his walk year. Their goal remains acquiring and developing young talent for a team most likely to coalesce in the middle of the coming decade. However, they should make some effort this offseason to acquire a player, or players, who, while unlikely to be part of a winning Orioles team, would at least provide some sort of entertainment or nostalgia value for fans in the region. Targets: OF Yasiel Puig, OF Adam Jones, LHP Cole Hamels, 2B Jonathan Schoop, OF Hunter Pence, RHP Félix Hernández, C/1B Stephen Vogt

Michael Wacha and Michael Pineda could be nice buy lows.

Oh boy, this post is not going to age well. Mr. BTS I know you don't possess deep hockey knowledge like myself but you should know better than doing the great goose god dirty like that. Think of Gusev like Luis Roberts. Needs a little time to adjust to a new culture and country but once he adapts watch out. I suggest you watch some YouTube videos of him as they will prove my point that he's a top 10 player in the NHL

Correct. You're welcome.

We are interested. I texted you. Let's talk. I love me some Russians.

He mostly plays leftback at Bayern.

Alphonso Davies getting the start for Bayern today

Bob, how did England not qualify for the u17 world cup?

You know, you guys could just look up his statistics which will paint the picture of his value relative to other QB's. https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/qb/2019

I liked your drunk post way more

I dunno. Ask Spanky.