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The new Deloitte Money League is out and the Bun­desliga is stronger than ever.

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Imme­di­ately after Hamburg’s loss against Borus­sia Dort­mund, the club offi­cials announced the trans­fer of dutch striker Ruud van Nis­tel­rooy, who played for the Span­ish club Real Madrid. Van Nis­tel­rooy singed a con­tract till june 2011. Ham­burg won the com­pe­ti­tion of sign­ing Van Nis­tel­rooy against Galatasaray Istan­bul and sev­eral Premier-League teams, who would pay much more wage […]

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With Paulo Guer­rero and Mladen Pet­ric sus­tain­ing long term injuries, Ham­burg are fac­ing a for­ward cri­sis of epic pro­por­tion. The weight of a team that is tied on points for the league falls on the shoul­ders on young Swede Mar­cus Berg. No mat­ter who Lab­ba­dia might sign, bring up from the reserves or shift, Berg […]

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Ham­burg shook off their early sea­son funk and tore apart Dort­mund at the Nord­bank Arena. It was the 4th straight vic­tory for the Dinosaurs at home against BVB. A series of early goals seemed to set­tle the match by the 12th minute. Guy Demel pushed the first over the line after a mas­sive keeper error […]

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With this weeks 4–0 drub­bing of Eng­land u21s by the Ger­man u21s, Die Mannschaft com­pleted a hat-trick of youth level Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships (win­ning the u17, u19, and u21 tour­na­ments). Such suc­cess indi­cates that the future of the Bun­desliga is bright, and that while the Serie A begins a period of decline, the Pre­mier League is […]

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RheinEn­ergi­eS­ta­dion I used the stats fea­ture at ESPN Soc­cer­net to cal­clu­ate the clubs with the best atten­dances. Out of the top 20 atten­dances in Europe, Ger­many had 9 clubs. This post is to equip you with a tool to help pro­mote our great league. Because, while we are in a slump in the Cham­pi­ons League […]

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Armin Veh was announced as Wolfsburg’s new man­ager after their title cel­e­bra­tions. The ex-Stuttgart man­ager will now try and repli­cate his 2008 Cham­pi­ons League form. It should be eas­ier with the immi­nent loss of Dzeko and Mis­i­movic. Mario Gomez became the most expen­sive player in Bun­desliga his­tory, swap­ping Stuttgart red for Bay­ern red. Bay­ern paid […]

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