After going into last season with three and a half defenders, I'm not really sure I'm ready to automatically put all my trust in whatever plan KATS have. And it's all very well assuming Frings wouldn't be willing to be part of a back-up plan, but 2 days ago everyone was assuming he must have said no because he wasn't offered enough money. Maybe he would have taken the chance to be part of a plan B. Either way...now we still need both a plan A and B.
(As for Frings coming back to Aachen...well, he's younger than Zdebel who's played that position a few times this season, but a lot older than Kratz who's been first choice and Burkhardt who's been injured, and we do seem to have the ~young/vitality~ approach going on at the moment, rather than the ~old/experience~...I think some more experienced players wouldn't be a bad thing, so if Frings is happy to largely benchwarm for c. €250,000, he could be the man. But that seems unlikely. ...Plus, fan-wise, no one likes him... So I'd be more than surprised.)
As for your list of plusses on the Frings grading report -- well, I think this team together has played below par and the few goals he scored where crucial, undeniably (for simply there were so few ;))Exactly. He scored the same number of BL-goals this season as last season, but that was enough to boost him from 5th to 3rd, just because no one else is doing better. It's the no one else doing better that's the problem as I see it, not Frings plodding along. And it's the same with the other things on that list - he was taking corners because no one else was doing them productively (Marin, Hunt), he was scoring crucial goals because no one else had already sorted the match. ...So now who's going to do all the things that Frings was only doing because other people on the team couldn't or just weren't doing them? (I'm not saying this in a rhetorical "omg, how will we function without him??"-way, but in a literal sense of who's going to be picking up the slack now
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And the cut that your have been dicribing is rather harshI'm not describing any cut - just stating the player who have played regularly for us this season who will also be playing next season. (By regularly, I meant 30+, but we only had 3 players (Frings, Marin, Mertesacker) who did that, so I also included players with 29 (Wiese and Fritz - though not Hunt, because so many of his were substitutions). This stat is in itself a worry, compared with Dortmund who had 11 players with 30+ appearances, because we just don't have the squad depth to rotate á-la Bayern, and adds further to the instability factor
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seems Kreiszeitung have replaced their "Frings will retire from playing" article with a "I want to still play!!" interview. So forget my "apparently he isn't" comment.
...Tbh, it's getting confusing, so I may just avoid thinking about all this until like August...unless Hamann can lure him to join him at Leicester City as he says he wants to play in abroad...I mean, idk if they're friends or anything, but Didi was being all nice about him on the telly recently, so maybe not completely ridic as an idea...
That would be awfully nice :) Yeah, I get confused too.
I was hoping for Chicago ;) (Please not RB New York).
So as it looks coach classes are up next year ( I am sure Frings wants to prepare properly for that, maybe learn how to type on a keyboard properly and dust off some books on soccer theory before starting the next step.
Just read his new interview and together with the latest news of re-signing Pasanen I am kinda lost. Also 13 players from WBII are leaving.
The game in Salzgitter yesterday was fun! Small, old-fashioned stadium tons of kids and Frings and Wiese pulled some jokes on them too. Will write on that later tonite and I also got like a ton of autographs on my scarf - it kinda happened... *braggs*
Bargy was awfully nice. And super-concentrated when signing. He told me about his injury as well as Vander.
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After going into last season with three and a half defenders, I'm not really sure I'm ready to automatically put all my trust in whatever plan KATS have. And it's all very well assuming Frings wouldn't be willing to be part of a back-up plan, but 2 days ago everyone was assuming he must have said no because he wasn't offered enough money. Maybe he would have taken the chance to be part of a plan B. Either way...now we still need both a plan A and B.
(As for Frings coming back to Aachen...well, he's younger than Zdebel who's played that position a few times this season, but a lot older than Kratz who's been first choice and Burkhardt who's been injured, and we do seem to have the ~young/vitality~ approach going on at the moment, rather than the ~old/experience~...I think some more experienced players wouldn't be a bad thing, so if Frings is happy to largely benchwarm for c. €250,000, he could be the man. But that seems unlikely. ...Plus, fan-wise, no one likes him... So I'd be more than surprised.)
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...Tbh, it's getting confusing, so I may just avoid thinking about all this until like August...unless Hamann can lure him to join him at Leicester City as he says he wants to play in abroad...I mean, idk if they're friends or anything, but Didi was being all nice about him on the telly recently, so maybe not completely ridic as an idea...
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I was hoping for Chicago ;) (Please not RB New York).
So as it looks coach classes are up next year ( I am sure Frings wants to prepare properly for that, maybe learn how to type on a keyboard properly and dust off some books on soccer theory before starting the next step.
Just read his new interview and together with the latest news of re-signing Pasanen I am kinda lost. Also 13 players from WBII are leaving.
The game in Salzgitter yesterday was fun! Small, old-fashioned stadium tons of kids and Frings and Wiese pulled some jokes on them too. Will write on that later tonite and I also got like a ton of autographs on my scarf - it kinda happened... *braggs*
Bargy was awfully nice. And super-concentrated when signing. He told me about his injury as well as Vander.
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