But were in the race for three titles and had matters in our own hands, eliminating PSG with ease. After poor performances in all competitions we now have to rely on Dortmund stumbling to save at least the league title. Players look exhausted and insecure. That whole dismissal was counterproductive and unprofessional and has been a disaster on short-terms. Not blaming Tuchel one bit, of course.
PSG have been bad in their league too and those games kinda made ppl forget how poorly we played in Bundesliga during that stretch, I'm pretty certain we would've been eliminated by City and also lost more league points (the development in league was absolutely terrible and we lost countless points), so Nagelsmann would've had to be sacked soon anyway imo. The timing can still be debated of course, he should've been sacked way earlier. But in general I think what ppl say about the roster planning and Brazzo+Kahn now is a bit of hindsight bias, last summer the vast majority of fans and media celebrated our transfers (you, atw and I did too) and it looked to work brilliantly after the first few games. Ppl thought the move from Lewa to Mane was brilliant and gave us much more versatility (we all raved here after those first few games and applauded Brazzo), now that it hasn't worked out, suddenly Kahn&Brazzo are terrible and responsible for everything. I will definitely say that they never got a Thiago successor and that was always a glaring issue, it was known Goretzka isn't at all what you need next to Kimmich. But then again, Nagelsmann barely used Gravenberch and also benched Sabitzer for no apparent reasons, after him&Kimmich looked like a really balanced pivot early this season.
Against PSG the defense was mostly stable and the guys looked confident. Not been the same since the dismissal. The idea to bring a new coach is to inject life into an insecure team, the exact opposite happened here. More than one key player spoke out in favor of Nagelsmann. Maybe we would've lost against Shity anyways, but maybe not against Freiburg. Of course it's hindsight bias, but it's their job to make things work. Not just for the first few games but for the whole season, which is turning into one gigantic failure, also thanks to sacking the coach in a crucial point in time. I never saw Mané as a Lewandowski replacement and will always advocate against a false 9.
I can tell you that most people HATE Brazzo internally. He wasted endless amounts of money, he drove Alaba and Lewandowski away (Lewy also really didn't think much of Nagelsmann, but Brazzo was a total idiot, he went after Haaland, the numbers got back to Lewy, but he refused to give Lewy something that would have at least shown some respect). He alienated the Tiger and Neuer. Brazzo has been destroying Bayern. He is just not what Bayern needs. The only reason he is still there is because Hoeneß uses him to meddle. He is 100 % a Hoeneß guy. Hoeneß still pulling the strings in the background. Our most successful period was more due to Rummenigge. Hoeneß did a lot of things for Bayern, but he also personally benefitted a lot from Bayern. And he still treats this like it's his personal property. All the guys on the supervisory board were hand-picked by Hoeneß.
Well that was a f***ing bummer. Up 2-0 and chances for United to put their foot on the Spurs throat...only to let them back in the game and gain confidence. Held on barely for the road tie...which against a top 6 club shouldn't be a bad thing...but it is. Was just a terrible 2nd half. Questionable timing on subs by ETH seems to be his one bad trait. There's no reason Weghorst needed to be inserted into this game. And unless Erickson was tired, leave him in as opposed to having Fred run around like a fool. Bruno is going to be kicking himself for botching a sure goal to go up 3-1. Really needed 3 there to widen the gap. 6 points with 2 games in hand is still good but it should be 9.
Nice transfer, watched some videos of him this week and some Aussie brehs say he's maybe their best talent ever. Can play both wings or sometimes more central and looks massively explosive and comfortable in 1on1s, great shot technique.
Mid week Haaland broke the Premier League record for most goals scored in a season when he got his 35th. He did not factor in the scoring over the weekend so he sits on 35 with 4 league games left to play. I was curious so I took a look at overall top flight English League records to see if he had a chance at any of those but way back in the day (like 20s or 30s) someone scored 60 goals in a 42 game season and then there are a couple 50+ and a few 40+ goal scores. Still a major accomplishment and if he finds a way to hit 40 I believe that would put him at or near a top 10 goal scoring season in the over 120 years of top flight English football.
