Talking Fussball

It's been a long week in the world of football, says JT about five minutes into this episode. You can say that again - it was enough to throw Flo off his game ahead of the midweek match day. What's great about an englische Woche, though, is you get a chance to make up for your mistakes nearly right away. Listen in for some strategies...

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Pretty hard to talk about anything but the plans for a European Super League, even for a podcast that  focuses on a league  whose leading lights decided not to go down that road. Matt and Nik get on the line with ESPN's Stephan Uersfeld to make sense of the big news, to sort out why so many coaches seem to want out of their contracts, and what Hertha's Covid crisis might mean for the relegation battle.

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With Hertha BSC stuck in quarantine, we thought we'd zoom in on the capital club ahead of this week's match day wrap episode on Monday. Before the club's covid crisis, the big news coming out of Hertha was the uproar in Hungary - at the highest levels of government(!) - over the firing of Zsolt Petry. Nik gets hold of Hungarian Journalist Gergely Marosi to find out why...

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Ready for  three  games in 10 days? You'd better be, because it's englische Woche time in the Bundesliga. Fantasy managers need to stay on their toes with such a fixture pile-up, and JT and Flo have ideas on how to do just that.

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Never mind their 2-2 draw in Berlin; what's next for Gladbach? They're set to lose  coach Marco Rose at the end of the season and don't yet have  a successor lined up (though  Adi Hütter is getting closer and closer to signing), and they've got work to do if they want to secure European football next year. Nik rounds up Manni Breuer from the Vollraute Abroad podcast to help answer those questions, as well as address 1. FC Köln's call to the fire department and  gush over the beautiful 4-3 slugfest that was Eintracht vs. Wolfsburg.

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Just seven match days remain in the Bundesliga season, which means it may be time to re-examine your squad-building strategy. (Hopefully you like what you bought last week when the transfers were unlimited!) Listen in as JT and Flo help you figure out the players you'll want to keep and which to send to the discard pile.

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If you didn't know before, now you know. Bayern are going to win the league, Wolfsburg and Frankfurt are all but in next year's UEFA Champions League, and BVB are set to be out in the cold. (Or the Europa League. We're not sure which.) Listen in as Matt and Kit consider these storylines, review the Berlin Derby, and  more.

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The international break brought a shock Germany loss, a coaching change at Bayern 04 Leverkusen, and - most importantly - an injury for  the Bundesliga's top goalscorer. Robert Lewandowski is set to be out for a couple of games at least, so this week's unlimited transfers are a tempting juncture to make a few changes up front. Listen in as JT and Flo give their ideas on who to pick up, who might thrive under Hannes Wolf, and more.

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Xabi Alonso back in the Bundesliga? Borussia Mönchengladbach Sporting Director Max Eberl seems keen to make it happen, and who can blame him,  because wouldn't it be a  treat, just watching the Spaniard smolder up and down the touchline?

The prospect gave Matt, Marie, and Reiss plenty to talk about - along with plenty on FC Bayern München's underhanded overpowering of VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund's sense of frustration after a draw with lowly 1. FC Köln, and the fact that 1. FSV Mainz are actually good now. We also settle an interesting listener question that goes like this: "Which team in the league is most boring to watch, and why is it Augsburg?"

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When you're the Fantasy Fussballgott, you don't lose the title after one bad week. That's the ruling handed down by Judge JT - and lucky for Flo after he failed to pick up many points at all last weekend. The delightful duo talk strategy over whether to gamble on another unlimited transfer over the coming international break, where to put your money in the unpredictable RB Leipzig squad, and much more.

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