Rebel Yelle

Giving up a breakaway from the half way line, Bremen is back baby!

3 minutes ago, nudge said:

 

Haha, good for the club to show that they will not give in to any player's attempts to force a transfer. I do wonder if he'll play at all, though. The fans are furious and don't want to see him in a Werder shirt ever again. Will be hard to get their respect back, if that's even possible.

I didn't want to see him in a Werder shirt again before all of this. Imagine being an at best mediocre player and thinking you can pull this.

It has been crazy just how much the big name players of the squad lost value over the last year or two. Yes some of it is covid of course, but the poor performance of the players to what they once were is massive. From some of what I have seen, between Eggestein and Rashica we lost around 20 to 30 million in value in the matter of a year or two. I am curious how much of that was down to the players themselves and how much was the coaching.

On 06/08/2021 at 15:40, nudge said:

I wouldn't want to be in his position, to be honest. A bit hard to sign quality players with no money available

He did create the problem by signing terrible players for too much money and not having quality players to sell. I really worry if we on counting on Füllkrug to be our striker this year.

4 hours ago, nudge said:

Baumann said he expects to announce some new signings next week. As it stands now, still a lot of areas that need strengthening badly. DM (Aursnes?), two wingers, at least one striker, a RB. A lot of work to be done.

It is Baumann so I expect him to fail massively at this.

1 hour ago, nudge said:

Bittencourt is out for a few weeks with a knee injury, so we're now desperately looking for wingers. First match is in less than 5 days, our new system is heavily reliant on strong wingers, and we barely have any left  

 

Jojo, welcome back to the wing!

Thoughts on the new kits? Both are clean, find the away a little bland. Quite like the detail on the home shirt.

Wondering if he will be a replacement for Augustinsson, or possibly Toprack as I think I saw he can play in the centre as well. Welcome Anthony!

Getting excited again for the season, like the new coach, hoping for the best from Frank, and looking forward to some great northern derbies. Only thing that sucks is the games will be tough to see here in Canada from a viewing and time perspective.

Onward and upward.

Glad to see it finally happen, the club deserves no credit for any of this and Baumann has disgraced himself.

The entire season has been such a disaster, and if we are relegated having played the most boring style of any team in the bundesliga it will really be a cherry on top. Hopefully with Schaaf at the helm they give it a proper go in the final game.

Is there any way to get rid of Kohfeldt before the next game or are we just stuck with him? If we can get rid of him, is there anyone people would recommend for the last game to be caretaker?

This club feels so rudderless under Baumann and Bode. I don't understand why Werder keep them around. The squad doesn't even have anyone of enough value to build around. Feels like even if they escape relegation this year, they will continue to flirt with it until it inevitably comes.

Is it worth it to sack Kohfeldt and hope for a bounce for the last 3 games?

10 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Finances, Covid, all the usual bullshit. Team has 6 good players in it. If that. 

Yeah, it's been a better season, given we have a worse squad, but we've been luckier with injuries this season, played that fucking awful cunt Osako less, and we can now defend(sometimes) and defend set pieces. 

Out of curiosity, who do you view as the 6 good players?

Thankfully Baumann has come out and said that Milot is likely staying. Apparently Hertha just wanted to loan him with no guarantee to buy. Why would they think that would be acceptable?

The game Saturday against Mainz, although I don't think its must win, it definitely feels like a must not lose. Need to keep the gap to the relegation spots.

53 minutes ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

The fact that he is loaned out and we have to watch Osako play is outrageous. 

We don't need strikers, especially ones that score hat tricks.

2 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

I remember when @Tommy was a yellow submarine, Dortmund were scrapping away with Bremen in a close game, and I said Junuzovic and Delaney were better than Sahin at the time. Tommy was outraged. Nex minute Sahin was at Bremen, Delaney was at Dortmund and everyone knows Dortmund were looking at Juno. 

I'd say Ozil just sneaks it over Juno for me. Maybe even Frings too. But far out that lad had heart and talent to burn. 

Great shout on Delaney, man I miss him. What a signing.

Sadly he predated my fandom. Same with Diego. I think my favorite midfielder since I became a fan was Junuzović.

Nice article on Johan Micoud for anyone interested.  

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2020/12/10/the-joy-of-johan-micoud-at-werder-bremen/

Great to see Jojo score against Tottenham even if Hart probably should have stopped it. Is there any clause to bring him back in January? Would either party be interested?

Rashica is now out to the end of January which is a huge blow both on the field and off. Hard to imagine we will be able to sell him for anything near his value now.

23 hours ago, nudge said:

Don't worry, he's not fit for the Frankfurt match.

Sargent the only striker now, Woltemade maybe an option although Kohfeldt seems to have decided to play him in midfield, Dinkci might be included in the squad. 

I kind of look forward to this. Sargent as the only striker I mean. I think everyone seems to be waiting for him to be a true, main striker. This is the first time and a chance to see what he can really do. Kind of a shit or get off the pot situation.

Seems like a good time to lay down in a corner and cry.

46 minutes ago, nudge said:

We badly need money. The club already applied for a KfW credit a while ago to relieve the financial burden after we lost 30 million Euro income due to corona, the credit hasn't been approved yet so we need to look for other ways to be able to generate money in the worst case scenario... 

We'll see whom Baumann manages to sign tomorrow, in case both Klaassen and Rashica leave. Hard to attract quality with limited financial resources. 

Ah, I knew about the credit but didn't realize it had not been approved yet. That makes more sense.