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Seeing the expectations of football fans who took part at the pre-season prediction run by kicker magazine got a feeling many might be in for a big surprise. Can't stretch enough that I hope to be wrong, but having seen Elversberg playing a lot last season I was perplexed Elversberg didn't dominate the 3.Liga by fluke, indeed they were by far the best team of the three newly promoted teams. Nonetheless many have them as the first relegation candidate. Although I might be wrong, I guessed this is because many 2.Liga fans don't follow 3.Liga and Elversberg aren't exactly a big name. In my opinion they will be better than most of those that voted thought, in fact I'm quite sure they will end in the first half of the table. They're for sure the best of the teams that were promoted to 2.Liga since Saarbrücken play 3.Liga (season 20/21) Well, we will see.

All hypothetical and yep like I say, one of the good parts of it is you can enter it in March and win the league.

Toy money.

Stuttgart are rumoured to want AZ Alkmaar's prolific Greek forward, Vangelis Pavlidis. Pavlidis has scored a total of 30 goals over the past two seasons at AZ Alkmaar. I have to say, that whenever I have seen him play, he has really impressed me. Be it in the Dutch league, in European club competition or for the Greek national team, Pavlidis always seems to play well. I think that Stuttgart would do well to buy the 24 year old Greek international.