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1st

Schalke

What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the offspring.

What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end.

What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the league by 6 points going into the last week and still pull a fubar.

But I look at this team, and quite frankly, it’s just bet­ter than Bay­ern Munich. Rakatic, Far­fan and Jones are an amaz­ing attack­ing three with Zé Roberto, Streit, Varela and PPA (poor people’s Alt­in­top) to pro­vide options. In Enge­laar and Ernst they have the per­fect dou­ble pivot, with Ernst the ball win­ner and Enge­laar the deep-set passer.

Bor­don, West­er­mann and Krsta­jic? (a fan­tas­tic man marker) are book­ended by two of the best full­back in the Bun­desliga in Olympiad Rafinha and D.J. Chris­t­ian Pan­der. Behind them sits Manuel Neuer, who while prone to a young mis­take on occa­sion is bril­liant 98% of the time.

And with Kuranyi they have a for­ward that can hold, dis­trib­ute, release, find space and fin­ish. They can switch mid-contest to a 4–4-2 and play Far­fan with Kuranyi, and Rut­ten can even call upon Asamoah, Lovenkrands or Sanchez.

So along with the tal­ent, they have new attack-minded trainer Fred Rut­ten, who has at his dis­posal the most ver­sa­tile side in the league. They can move from a 4–2-3–1 to a 4–1-4–1, 4–4-2 or 4–3-3 in one move. If the tac­ti­cal acu­men that we are led to believe exists in Rut­ten, they will win the league. No blow­ing it on the last weekend.

2nd

Bay­ern Munich

What You Know: Jur­gen Some­thing. I forget.

What You Don’t: It’s F.C. Bay­ern. What could you pos­si­bly not know about a team that has more press cov­er­age that Lind­say Lohan.

What to Expect: I am alone on this, which will make me either a genius or quickly for­got­ten, but I don’t think they have what it takes for the Bun­desliga this time around. I think the UCL they may well win, but Jur­gen hasn’t proven to any­one he can han­dle a year-long sched­ule. On top of that, will he see that the team is built for a 4–2-3–1 or will he con­tinue to force, as Ottmar Hitzfeld did, two lone for­wards into a dual attack­ing line. He will be granted amnesty on this choice while his tal­is­man returns from his Euro injury, but he is in for a headache when Ribery returns.

Also putting your faith in a kid at goal­keeper is a big gam­ble. Rens­ing could be the bomb. He could also fold under the pres­sure and demands of Germany’s biggest club. Also does Jur­gen have the will-power to keep Lucio from expos­ing his defense. It was Hitzfeld’s great­est accom­plish­ment last year, but I doubt some­one Lucio would call “the kid” is going to keep him from leav­ing Demiche­lis wish­ing he had stayed a DM.

3rd

Wolfs­burg

What You Know: Felix Mag­ath won two dou­bles as man­ager of Bay­ern. After a slow start two sea­sons ago, he took up the posi­tion at Wolfs­burg, but he has done so as the one true Eng­lish man­ager in the Bun­desliga. He guided Wolfs­burg to 5th place last year.

What You Don’t: He has a Puerto Rican father and thus he’s the most famous per­son on this list who hasn’t won a Grammy.

What to Expect: Chris­t­ian Zac­cardo and Andrea Barza­gli would be a mas­sive sign­ing for any team not in Milan or Turin. The fact that a fac­tory town has two world cup win­ners should make every­one pay atten­tion. The fact that Mag­ath has taken over and built a young squad with good chem­istry and excel­lent con­di­tion­ing should scare them. I think this team is going to be in Cham­pi­ons League next year.

With Mis­o­movic already to take the man­tle of play­maker, the move of Marcelinho to Fla­mengo has me even more con­vinced. Too much went through the aging cap­tain, and that might have been fine when the squad was dodgy, but not with all the tal­ent the have now. They should ben­e­fit from an attack that doesn’t have to go through one man.

4th

Bayer Lev­erkusen

What You Know: I heart Rene Alder

What You Don’t: No court order will keep us apart.

What to Expect: I joke about Rene Adler, but seri­ously, he is the only keeper in the world who I watch a game just to see his exploits. When he’s on his game, he’s impos­si­ble to beat. Add to the best keeper in the world (I mean that), a young tal­ented squad with the likes of Simon Rofles, Tran­quillo Bar­netta, Gon­zalo Cas­tro, Arturo Vidal and Ste­fan Kiessling. Add to that mix new sign­ings Patrick Helmes, Hen­rique and Renato Augusto, and they have the mak­ings of a team that will slip in and out of the top three for most of the season.

This biggest ques­tion mark for the Werk­self is new trainer Bruno Lab­ba­dia. If the up and com­ing man­ager has the per­son­al­ity to focus this young team and the tac­tics to win games, there’s no rea­son they can’t be play­ing for Cham­pi­ons League this sea­son. I per­son­ally think he will be up to the task, but they won’t have enough to get to their tra­di­tional spot of #2.

5th

Werder Bre­men

What You Know: Diego is off to the Olympics, which sucks for Werder, but has meant that nobody came in with offers for the highly sought after midfielder.

What You Don’t: The Team Motto is “Defense Schmefense”

What to Expect: We know they can score. That’s not an issue. Werder’s prob­lem is always a lack of defense. They are capa­ble of thrash­ing teams, but are also able to lose focus at home to the likes of Bochum. With Per Merte­sacker out for the begin­ning of the sea­son, Sebas­t­ian Prodl will have to step in and part­ner Naldo in cen­tral defense. The prob­lem is that Prodl was most likely brought in to be the under­study for the erratic Naldo. Putting a promis­ing kid with Naldo, when Torsten Frings plays a loose ver­sion of a DM, is a recipe for dis­as­ter, espe­cially when the keeper Tim Wiese is prone to blun­ders. Addi­tion­ally their two full­backs, Fritz and Pasa­nen are more attack minded than defense minded. With all of that in mind, Werder’s defense could cause them mas­sive headaches this season.

6th

Ham­burg

What You Know: Rafael van der Vaart has left, tak­ing his bad atti­tude and hot wife with him.

What You Don’t: His team­mates aren’t distraught.

What to Expect: Mar­tin Jol’s abil­ity to turn a squad of crap into a good side is being proven on a daily basis as Spurs are stripped of the play­ers that Juande Ramos doesn’t con­sider good enough. Jol got that squad to two 5th place fin­ishes, by some mir­a­cle, over in the Pre­mier­ship. At Ham­burg, Jol actu­ally has a lot more tal­ent than he did at Tot­ten­ham. Per­haps he lacks the super­star qual­ity of Dim­i­tar Berba­tov, but his mid­field, even with the loss of van der Vaart, is bet­ter. Piotr Tro­chowski, Jonathan Pitroipa and Romeo Caste­len (when healthy) can open up most defenses while de Jong and Jarolim can lock down a mid­field. A solid defense and the most under­rated keeper in the league will keep them in most games.

The worry for HSV is the strike­force of Ivica Olic, Paulo Guer­rero and Mohamed Zidan. They haven’t been the most pro­duc­tive strik­ers and if they can’t fin­ish, HSV will become nil-draw specialists.

7th

Han­nover 96

What You Know: Robert Enke is the heir appar­ent to Jens as Germany’s #1.

What You Don’t: Their nick­name is die Rot­ten, which sounds really cool until you trans­late it and it becomes “the Reds”. Commies!

What to Expect: Here’s a name you don’t know, but should: Arnold Brug­gink. The 31 year old Dutch play­maker has been lead­ing Hannover’s turn of for­tunes as they have fin­ished 12th, 11th and 8th since he joined. Over­shad­owed by the likes of Ribery, Diego, van der Vaart and Marcelinho, he has been one of the most cre­ative forces in Ger­many since he moved. Sur­rounded by the likes of Jan Rosen­thal, Szabolcs Huszti, Ser­gio Pinta and Altin Lala, while Hanno Bal­itsch cleans up behind him, Hannover’s mid­field is an obvi­ous strength.

By upgrad­ing the defense in front of the solid Robert Enke by adding Mario Eggi­mann to replace an aging Michael Tar­nat to go along with work-horse Steve Cherun­dolo as well as Frank Fahren­horst, Vale­rien Ismael and Chris­t­ian Schultz, Dieter Hecking’s side have strength­ened sig­nif­i­cantly in a weak area.

In addi­tion, the two new for­wards in Jan Schlau­draff and Mikael Fors­sell is a huge upgrade on the hot and cold Mike Hanke and should take the impe­tus off the mid­field to pro­vide goals as well as ser­vice. Last week I did a “best trans­fer” list and leav­ing Jan Schlau­draff off of it will be a huge mistake.

8th

Ein­tra­cht Frank­furt

What You Know: Come on. Be hon­est. You don’t know any­thing about Frankfurt.

What You Don’t: Fried­helm Funkel, who hence­forth will be referred to as da Funken­shiz­zle, has steadily improved this once yo-yo team and they can con­tend for Europe.

What to Expect: Da Funken­shiz­zle has built a team that has an equal mea­sure of youth and expe­ri­ence. But the young guns are where all of the excite­ment is com­ing from. Since last Jan­u­ary, Frank­furt have added Markus Stein­höfer, Umit Kork­maz, Habib Bel­laid and Mar­tin Fenin. All of them are highly regarded youth play­ers. Cap­tur­ing Fenin was one of the biggest coups by a smaller club in a long time.

If these kids can start to gel with the exist­ing spine that includes holder Junichi Inamoto, cap­tain Ama­na­tidis, the under­rated Markus Proll, play­maker Alexan­der Meier and defender Christoph Spy­cher; Frank­furt could be more than a mid-table team this year. Add to that the free trans­fers of vet­er­ans Zla­tan Bajramovic from Schalke and Nikos Liberopou­los from AEK and da Funken­shiz­zle has had one of the most impres­sive off-seasons of any trainer in the Bundesliga.

9th

Stuttgart

What You Know: Jens Lehmann is a douche bag and a crap keeper.

What You Don’t: Know­ing that, he’s still a 100 fold improve­ment over Rafael Schae­fer, who might have had one of the worst sea­sons ever in the Bun­desliga. I mean the word awful doesn’t do his per­for­mance justice.

What to Expect: Wel­come to mid-table medi­oc­rity. The Swabi­ans may have one of the hottest com­modi­ties on the planet in Mario Gomez, but while good at devel­op­ing tal­ent, they have proven them­selves to be poor pur­chasers of tal­ent. Adding a cou­ple of ques­tion­able EPL castoffs isn’t rea­son to believe that they can be any bet­ter this year, than they were last year. While Pardo is a great hold­ing mid, he’s get­ting old. Let­ting their best player from last year, Fer­nando Meira, go is not the best way to shore up a defense that doesn’t impress. Bouh­larouz has been a shell of the player he was at Ham­burg. While they have been mak­ing ques­tion­able choices in the mar­ket, Schalke, Wolfs­burg, Bay­ern and Bayer have been sign­ing qual­ity. If things go right, like it did two years ago, they could push for a UEFA Cup slot, but I am not con­fi­dent of this. I think that Armin Veh will be the first trainer to lose his job this campaign.

10th

Hertha Berlin

What You Know: If Marko Pan­telic gets hit by a bus, the league has been instructed to drop them to Zweite immediately.

What You Don’t: They are chang­ing their name to Herta Berlinho. They now have five Brazil­ians. Their for­tunes ride on how many of them are “tal­ented” Brazilians.

What to Expect: They are in the UEFA Cup through the Fair Play rule. I’d advise them to avoid red-cards again. This is a team that might be a year away from being the real deal, and if the man­age­ment gives trainer Lucien Favre time to mold this very young team with a lot of poten­tial, then it could pay div­i­dends by next sea­son. If they put undo pres­sure on him to deliver the goods, they will surely fire him as Hertha should run hot and cold as the kids gel as a unit. And all the hard work to get rid of the trash (such as Deje­gah, Minero and da Prince) and bring in a new core, such as Cicero, Kaka, Domovchiyski, Goyko, Rod­nei, Amine Cher­miti and Marc Stein, will be for naught. Cher­miti signed too late to make my best trans­fer list, but by all accounts the Tunisian Maradonna is lights-out and this 20 year old kid will make you want to watch Hertha this year.

11th

Borus­sia Dort­mund

What You Know: The first club pub­licly traded on the Ger­man stock exchange, finan­cial mis­man­age­ment has seen this pow­er­house turn into a laugh­ing stock of Ger­man foot­ball. Things look set to change.

What You Don’t: With their col­ors, one might think an offi­cial nick­name like the Bee’s would be on the cards; how­ever, their offi­cial name is Die Schwarzgel­ben, which goal­keeper Roman Wei­den­feller does not like one bit.

What to Expect: Jür­gen Klopp’s enthu­si­asm gets even me excited. And I have no spe­cific feel­ings about Germany’s sec­ond biggest team. But I do feel that BVB has turned a cor­ner finan­cially, and have brought in a coach that could take them back to their for­mer glory. This man took Mainz to the Bun­desliga and kept them up for three years. That’s a phe­nom­e­nal achievement.

And who did Klopp bring with him from Mainz? The inter­na­tion­ally sought best defender in Zweite last year Neven Sub­otic. He’s already a vast improve­ment over the ancient Worms, who showed his age last year. It would seem they hope to make him the cor­ner­stone of their defense with loa­nee Mats Hum­mels, if they can make his move from Bay­ern per­ma­nent. That is a juicy sound­ing U20 pair­ing. Time will tell how good it can be.

If the keep hold of winger Jakub Blaszczykowski, they have a vastly improved mid­field over last sea­son with the addi­tions of play­maker Haj­nal and the return of FM leg­end Nuri Sahin. With Fed­erico, Kehl, Tinga and Marc-André Kruska, they are loaded in the mid­dle. Up front, they have depth with Alexan­der Frei, Nel­son Valdez and Mladen Petric.

I see BVB improv­ing over last year’s per­for­mance. Klopp and his young defense will need time to set­tle, and I hope the man­age­ment will have as much patience as I am will­ing to give. They are still in dire need of a decent keeper; oth­er­wise, I would have them higher. By next year, Dort­mund fans could be very happy indeed.

12th

Borus­sia Mönchenglad­bach

What You Know: Borus­sia has turned into the biggest yo-yo club in the world. How­ever their new state of the art sta­dium should pro­vide them with the foot­ing to rebuild their rep­u­ta­tion in the com­ing years.

What You Don’t: How to pro­nounce their name. Don’t worry…we all fake it.

What to Expect: The only move that mat­tered in this off-season was hold­ing onto 19 year old phe­nom Marko Marin. His arrival to the Bun­desliga dwarfs any of the big trans­fers, as every­body wants to see how he per­forms at the high­est level. But Jos Luhukay and Chris­t­ian Ziege, the train­ing duo, do not pre­side over a one man team.They have a deep squad with youth and expe­ri­ence. Most of that expe­ri­ence comes in the form of Oliver Neuville, the age­less won­der. He part­ners Cana­dian Rob Friend up top and the pair chipped in 33 goals com­bined last year. The ser­vice of Mar­cel Ndjeng, Sascha Rösler and Marin is top notch and they can be expected to score a few this year as well.

Their biggest con­cern is their defense, which has sig­nif­i­cant changes, from the best defense in Zwei last year. If Callsen-Bracker and Juares set­tle in quickly, they should be fine.

13th

Karl­sruhe

What You Know: They were the sur­prise pack­age of last cam­paign, flirt­ing with Europe before drag­ging across the fin­ish line in 11th.

What You Don’t: I want chicken every time I look at their crest.

What to Expect: I think they have what it takes to avoid the sopho­more slump. They were unfor­tu­nate to lose play­maker Tamás Haj­nal to BVB and CB Mario Eggi­mann to Han­nover. Both were inte­gral parts of the team that won the Zweite and did so well last year. How­ever, they shrewdly picked up Antônio da Silva to replace Haj­nal as a cre­ator. In addi­tion, they raided Hansa for Tim Sebas­t­ian to replace Eggi­mann. They lost very lit­tle in tal­ent, although a bit in cohe­sion, but it should be enough to keep them up for another year.

They held onto some of the key com­po­nents of last year’s team, such as Joshua Kennedy, who they picked up in Jan­u­ary and imme­di­ately started build­ing the team around. It’s no coin­ci­dence that their late sea­son dip cor­re­sponded to his injury. Markus Miller turned out to be a top notch goal­keeper, and hold­ing onto him is basi­cally the dif­fer­ence between rel­e­ga­tion and stay­ing up. Free­kick spe­cial­ist Mas­si­m­il­ian Por­cello, highly under­rated full­back Chris­t­ian Eich­ner, the ver­sa­tile Iashvilli and Michael Mutzel all return to Edmund Becker’s side. While I can’t see them push­ing as high as they did last year, they look to be a fix­ture in the league for years to come with this pro­gres­sive trainer.

14th

Köln

What You Know: Christoph Daum, the dis­graced man­ager that lost out on a chance to coach the Ger­man nation­als, has rebuilt his rep­u­ta­tion and has pledged him­self to the club that first game him a chance after play­ing. Hav­ing won tro­phies in Turkey and Aus­tria, and being one of the biggest also-rans in Bun­desliga his­tory, he has as much pedi­gree as any manger out­side of Magath.

What You Don’t: Three times they have secured pro­mo­tion recently. Three times they have made a hasty retreat. Also goats seem to be very gigan­tic in that region.

What to Expect: A team that barely won pro­mo­tion used its resources wisely to add an inter­na­tional holder in Petit, the Superliga’s best defender in Pedro Geromel and Duisburg’s Ishi­aku. The lat­ter unfor­tu­nately takes the place of their “chubby” cap­tain Patrick Helmes, who has joined Bayer Lev­erkusen. Over­all they have a solid defen­sive spine, which kept Karl­sruhe up last year. With the Columbian Mon­dragon in goal the Canuck Kevin McKenna to part­ner the highly antic­i­pated Geromel, they are look­ing solid in this area. That alone will make them capa­ble of sur­viv­ing the year. How their attack sur­vives with­out Helmes will indi­cate their abil­ity to move beyond 15th.

15th

TSG Hof­fen­heim

What You Know: SAP. Yeah that SAP, the world’s largest busi­ness soft­ware provider. Diet­mar Hopp, the for­mer Hof­fen­heim youth player is one of the founders. He has been the team’s backer since 1990 when they were in the eighth tier of Ger­man football.

What You Don’t: Hof­fen­heim (pop 3K) is a sub­urb of the tiny town of Sin­sheim (pop. 33K), which is essen­tially a sub­urb of Cam­ryn Man­heim (pop 325K), who hasn’t been able to get work in Hol­ly­wood due to her grav­i­ta­tional force. So when peo­ple call it the world’s rich­est vil­lage team, they aren’t kidding.

What to Expect: I want them to suc­ceed. I really do. I think it would be one of the best sto­ries in foot­ball. I think I am going with my heart when I pick them for 15th, rather than my brain. How­ever, I can point to their phe­nom­e­nal infra­struc­ture and the new sta­dium in Jan­u­ary as rea­sons to believe they can survive.

They have not enhanced much over last season’s side. Admit­tedly, they already had some solid mid­field play in Car­los Eduardo and Sejad Sal­i­hovic, and the fact that they held onto them might be more impor­tant than who they brought in. Mostly it comes down to their strike force of Demba Ba and Chinedu Obasi. Are they good enough for this level? Or will goals be like Camryn’s feet: Not often spotted.

Rel­e­ga­tion

Bochum

What You Know: Bochum is one of the old­est sport­ing clubs in Ger­many. I typ­i­cally feel older just watch­ing them.

What You Don’t: If you pro­nounce the “ch” in the mid­dle of their name as a hard “k” sound rather than a gut­tural “h” sound, rabid spi­der mon­keys will attack your gen­i­tals with a ham­mer. I’ve seen it hap­pen and it ain’t pretty.

What to Expect: Not good. I know they seem like a mid-table side, but their com­fort­able posi­tion last year had much to do with the under-performance of big­ger sides like Nurem­burg, BVB and Hertha as well as the large num­ber of poor sides that resided in the bot­tom half. The newly pro­moted sides this year are one of the strongest crops in a while. And Dort­mund are get­ting better.When your best play­ers are Stanislav Ses­tak and Shinji Ono, and you can point to keep­ing them as being a sign of progress, you are bound for a rough ride.

Arminia Biele­feld

What You Know: The King is dead. We will miss Zuma the Puma (much like he missed the net). Long live the new King: Katongo the Tsunami!

What You Don’t: There is not one Armen­ian on their squad. What’s up with that?

What to Expect: Trainer Michael Frontzeck is highly expe­ri­enced in eas­ing a team into the Zweite after doing it with Aachen. His expe­ri­ence should be help­ful this year. How­ever, one can never pre­dict with con­fi­dence the demise of Arminia, as they will inevitably bring back Ernst Mid­den­dorp, who could save them this year.…AGAIN.

Energie Cot­tbus

What You Know: Their squad wasn’t raided this year by big­ger clubs.

What You Don’t: There’s a rea­son their squad wasn’t raided by big­ger clubs.

What to Expect: Hey, if they give us another great match like their home vic­tory over Bay­ern Munich, it will be a fan­tas­tic part­ing gift before return­ing to Zweite.

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