₦airaland Forum

fredoooooo:
Boboyi o sha like wahala sha , Adebayo Faleti ko D.O fagunwa ni

fredoooooo:
San laa rin , aje ni muni pe koro ..

Tval:
Barcelona, you guys need to chill.

Bimffo:
If this is true, Mehn! we are the boss in transfer business..

Nihilist:
The same way you backtracked over all your FC Beast comments? Abegi!

Nihilist:
Seems like Cahill has lost his place.

raumdeuter:
Which means what? A club beat you mercilessly and you immediately stole 3 of their players

raumdeuter:
Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Aontoine Griezmann would be good replacement for Ribery in 2016

De Bruyne made a good case for himself

Our ex player Luiz Gustavo had a good game today

Also Maximiliano Arnold and De Bruyne

raumdeuter:
Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Aontoine Griezmann would be good replacement for Ribery in 2016

De Bruyne made a good case for himself

Our ex player Luiz Gustavo had a good game today

Also Maximiliano Arnold and De Bruyne

His team's good performances in Europe, however, could still probably be counted on one hand. There is also that horrifying loss to Real Madrid in last season's semi-final to exorcise. His record on the continent with Bayern is modest. Modest by his standards and by theirs. Eighteen matches; four defeats among his results.

Over the course of the Bundesliga's lifetime they have won the shield roughly every two seasons. They have sent brilliant teams to the Champions League but besides that golden period from 1974 to 1976 they have never dominated it. Guardiola was supposed to usher in a brilliant new era of indestructibility.

It's been 18 months of near serial success for Bayern and Pep on the home front. He has presided over two losses in 51 games, both when the league was already won last year, and none this season. That sort of supremacy does not stretch yet to the Champions League, where Bayern need all their success and validation.

Sure, the Bundesliga has been won and probably twice. They have also lifted the DFB-Pokal and the Club World Cup. They did not, however, need Pep Guardiola to deliver them those trophies.

Bayern are in that state of perpetual limbo like Barcelona were when Guardiola would only commit to one-year extensions at a time.

There were dissenting voices upon the announcement of his arrival not least towards the boorish manner in which treble-winning coach Jupp Heynckes was shoved aside to make way. Certain dismay at Guardiola's appointment also stemmed from the notion that Bayern had been seduced by Guardiola's celebrity and were eager to sign him up upon his availability, the long-term implications be damned.

Despite the outward calm on the part of Bayern it is apparent that Guardiola has not been sufficiently won over to commit long term. For their part, the record Germany champions might find there is no long-term stability to go along with the team he is currently assembling if he is to depart on schedule.

The club's website earlier in the week penned a denial of a quarrel between Sammer, the sporting director, and Guardiola at a training session. It was alleged by Sky Deutschland that the pair engaged in a stand-up row in the Bayern dressing room on Monday.

There is little else to occupy the German football press other than the increasingly pressing matter of Guardiola's contract expiration. It is not like they have a title race to consider. The Bundesliga was all but decided before the winter break. Bayern lead by 11 points and that could stretch to 14 by the time they play on Friday against second-placed Wolfsburg, their nominal challengers in a wretchedly one-sided German league season.

[size=18pt]Has the countdown started on Guardiola's reign at Bayern?[/size]

The Bayern trainer spoke this week in the past tense about his tenure at the Allianz Arena prompting speculation that he might already be plotting his next move


Is it conceivable that the perfectionist Pep Guardiola, who began to learn German intensively with a private tutor six months before he joined Bayern Munich as coach in 2013, mangled his tenses when asked about his time in Bavaria?

"For me it was a great challenge", he said this week. "No matter what happens, I had a great time. I was very happy to be coach at Bayern. It was a dream for me!"

Those don't sound like the words of a man halfway through a project; they are the words of a man with an end in sight. At this crossroads of his Bayern career, upon the first match of the second half of his tenure, Guardiola is both.

He was in attendance earlier this week at one of Bayern's traditional fan club visits. This one took place in the Bavarian outpost of Greding where club guests were treated to a slap-up meal and all the traditional regional delights. His response left plenty confused particularly as uncertainty over the Catalan's Bayern future gathers momentum.

Neither Guardiola nor the club will answer straight questions about what he intends to do when his terms expire in 2016. He signed a three-year deal upon appointment and there as of yet has been little indication that the plan will change. Concerns have been raised also by former Barcelona president Joan Laporta's plans to stand for re-election this year. Laporta would like to bring back his former coach to work at Camp Nou, either as trainer or sporting director.

Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is playing it calmly, insisting time and again that a contract renewal is still very much up for discussion but that the time to do so is next season in the second half of 2015.

There is little else to occupy the German football press other than the increasingly pressing matter of Guardiola's contract expiration. It is not like they have a title race to consider. The Bundesliga was all but decided before the winter break. Bayern lead by 11 points and that could stretch to 14 by the time they play on Friday against second-placed Wolfsburg, their nominal challengers in a wretchedly one-sided German league season.

Matthias Sammer was asked about Guardiola's contract in the pre-match press conference on Thursday but would utter only a few cursory words on the issue.

"Pep and the club just want to talk about football and nothing else," he said. "These things don't have to be clarified now in order to do a good job in the second part of the season."

The club's website earlier in the week penned a denial of a quarrel between Sammer, the sporting director, and Guardiola at a training session. It was alleged by Sky Deutschland that the pair engaged in a stand-up row in the Bayern dressing room on Monday.

Despite the outward calm on the part of Bayern it is apparent that Guardiola has not been sufficiently won over to commit long term. For their part, the record Germany champions might find there is no long-term stability to go along with the team he is currently assembling if he is to depart on schedule.

There were dissenting voices upon the announcement of his arrival not least towards the boorish manner in which treble-winning coach Jupp Heynckes was shoved aside to make way. Certain dismay at Guardiola's appointment also stemmed from the notion that Bayern had been seduced by Guardiola's celebrity and were eager to sign him up upon his availability, the long-term implications be damned.

Bayern have continuously been insistent that they are optimistic of tying their coach to a new, extended contract. However, as that 2016 deadline looms into view, Bayern are about 12 months away from going back to the drawing board all over again. Bayern are in that state of perpetual limbo like Barcelona were when Guardiola would only commit to one-year extensions at a time.

Sure, the Bundesliga has been won and probably twice. They have also lifted the DFB-Pokal and the Club World Cup, mere trinkets in the Bayern trophy cupboard. They did not, however, need Pep Guardiola to deliver them those trophies. Guardiola was appointed to burnish Bayern's football as well as win titles.

Here was the man who was supposed to not only guarantee the continuation of Bayern's never-ending trophy stream but who also would give them their longed-for identity; an on-field brand to go with their off-field one. Can all that happen, though, in the timeframe desired initially by Guardiola? Impossible. No coach has ever transformed a club so absolutely in only three seasons.

Will it have been worth it for only three years? Who will be next? Will it be a question of finding someone to step into Guardiola's place and deliver a facsimile team? That is what Bayern wanted to avoid when they decided to dispense with Heynckes. And so will the revolution continue? Will Bayern have to go to someone else, someone new and different to establish another, distinct, philosophy?

It's been 18 months of near serial success for Bayern and Pep on the home front. He has presided over two losses in 51 games, both when the league was already won last year, and none this season. That sort of supremacy does not stretch yet to the Champions League, where Bayern need all their success and validation.

Over the course of the Bundesliga's lifetime they have won the shield roughly every two seasons. They have sent brilliant teams to the Champions League but besides that golden period from 1974 to 1976 they have never dominated it. Guardiola was supposed to usher in a brilliant new era of indestructibility.

His team's good performances in Europe, however, could still probably be counted on one hand. There is also that horrifying loss to Real Madrid in last season's semi-final to exorcise. His record on the continent with Bayern is modest. Modest by his standards and by theirs.

Eighteen matches; four defeats among his results. Of course he has the knockout rounds this season, starting with Shakhtar Donetsk, to straighten out his record as well as another full campaign next time out.

By then we will know if as well as delivering trophies Guardiola will have given Bayern Munich the winning football they need to perpetuate success in Europe. The club seems caught in the headlights of Pep's achievement. If he cannot commit to them, nor turn around their football in Europe, then maybe they should be empowered to part ways on their own terms.

parrotibaba:
na just question I ask

pamcode:
Mourinho can be so funny he said he switches off his Tv anytime he sees the name of the sky sports guy that attacks chelsea http://m.goal.com/x/en/news/8375202/ who is the guy anyway