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

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It has been an inter­est­ing week in rumors. First the man­agers! Hof­fen­heim will say good­bye to Ralf Rang­nick because he wants to spend money this sum­mer. They will then say hello to Jur­gen Klins­mann, who is the epit­ome of fru­gal­ity. After all, he only forced Bay­ern to rebuild it’s train­ing facil­ity. Mean­while the pos­ses­sors of […]

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Yes­ter­day, the Bundesliga’s five UEFA Cup entrants were handed very tough groups for the upcom­ing mid­dle stage of the UEFA Cup. While group pre­views will be pre­pared later this month, let’s take a look at the draws for Hertha, Schalke, Stuttgart, Wolfs­burg and Ham­burg. 1. Group A Schalke was a top seed, despite being throttled […]

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Why Pick Lee?

by Double Pivot on August 27, 2008 · 0 comments

Young-Pyo Lee has joined Dort­mund after the club agreed to terms with Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur for the South Korean full­back. Lee’s sur­vival at Spurs this long has been some­thing of a odd­ity for us Lily­whites as he had fallen behind Gareth Bale, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Jamie O’Hara and Gilberto in Juande Ramos’ esti­ma­tion. He had been a […]

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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 […]

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A look at Bayer Leverkusen’s Bruno Lab­ba­dia con­cludes our The New Gaffer: Intro­duc­ing… series this week. So far we’ve exam­ined, in order: the jour­ney­man, the com­pany man, the stranger and, er, Mar­tin Jol. Lab­ba­dia is a mix between a poor man’s Jür­gen Klins­mann and a poor man’s Chris­t­ian Bale (take a look!). In other words, […]

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Fred Rut­ten isn’t the only new Dutch man­ager in the Bun­desliga, as ex-Tottenham Mar­tin Jol took over the reigns of Ham­burg ear­lier this month. It’s been nearly 30 years since Jol’s last appear­ance in Ger­many. He made 9 appear­ances for Bay­ern Munich as a mid­fielder in 1978/79 before return­ing to the Nether­lands the next season. […]

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