I like Friedrich…. he’s under utilized though so maybe Milan is a good place for him.

I never read it, but they said that he has criticised the rotation.

Lastly, during the Lyon and Bochum games, he didn’t even warm up during the match.

Bild.de can be sensational at times so take it with a grain of salt.

The whole situation sucks. NOt sure where this may go but if this keeps up who thinks he’s going to leave in the winter pause?

Off topic, Arne Friedrich is would like to go to Milan.

Even after reading the context of it, it’s a rather staggering statement. Of course there is no admission of error or misjudgment from Klinsmann, so I must ask him: Are you throwing the players under the million-Euro, state of the art, bus? If you know where the problems are, why have you not made any visible progress in affecting change? Is the explanation that you are incapable of correcting the problems?

Klinsmann may have total belief in his knowledge of where the problems are. But he had better be aware that a very dedicated fandom also have their own opinion of where the problems are, and it may not matter who is right, but rather who is louder and more convincing if he wants to keep his job.

All my translators are laughing at me while boasting of Barcelona and Madrid. It’s an embarassment becasue I really have no good comeback.

I love my team but damn we are all going through their pain

It is a complete embarrassment that a world class team that competed on a level in which virtually no one could touch them has turned into a team in which practically everyone can not only touch them, but beat them.

My points have been you can’t appoint someone a Captain, who is suppose to lead and pull the team and then bench him. While Klose has come out and defended MvB, saying he is still class and is still setting an incredible example for the team even while benched (one has to wonder if he was referring to Podolski’s incessant whining for being benched), a Captain’s place is on the field with his team. If you weren’t sure, you shouldn’t have made that appointment.

Rensing I like very much and I think he has the potential to be a class keeper, but the fact of the matter is that when your defense is a mess you need to be able to rely on your keeper and they just can’t do that right now. No one expects him to be an Oli Kahn fresh out of the gate, but there has to be something that this team can depend on and right now there isn’t anything.

>>I don’t know about Rensing — I want him to succeed and I want to give him time, but at some point during the game he made a save… and I found myself very surprised.<<
I had the same reaction and I never wanted to have that happen with Rensing between the pipes. Maybe the media constantly reminding everyone that Bayern has never lost with him in goal was a bit too much pressure. I haven’t got a clue what’s going on, but I certainly don’t like it.

Shadi, that’s the thing, isn’t it? It’s not just the defending, our strikers have been particularly poor lately. The goals have come from midfielders more than from the strikers. I want to see Klinsi man up and bench Toni for once, just to see how it works out with Klose/Poldi. These vaunted tactics of JK just aren’t working — let’s stop the rot, go back to the 4-4-2 or 4-5-1, and then give it a little more time to work on the 3-5-2 in training. I don’t know if JK is trying to teach Van Bommel a lesson, but it’s about time he got back out to the pitch. Let Demichelis get back to defending.

I don’t know about Rensing — I want him to succeed and I want to give him time, but at some point during the game he made a save… and I found myself very surprised.