gibbonicus_andronicus wrote:
but do they have many more we can take off them?
Well, there will be more players we buy from smaller german or dutch clubs and a few years later there comes the big money from Britain
Unfortunately our manager has gone at the beginning of the season and is now manager of Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull New York and a few other Red Bull related football-things. I hope this won´t be a problem in the future for you and ourselves
Why we don´t dominate the league? Well, we have done so at the beginning of this season, but our most important attacking player Guerrero ("Waterboy" ^^) had an heavy knee injury, also the other top players were injured like Ze Roberto, Elia, Jansen, Petric...so if this would have happened to any other big club in germany they wouldn´t be in the first half of the table.
So if I should give you a prediction who will be the next "Hamburger" for you, you should have a look at Elia. Spectacular and strong left winger but has still to suffer from a foul a few months ago.
Back to Boateng. I personally think he´s better than Kompany but not as talented (but also big talent) if that makes sense ^^ He´s really fast, good at tackling, his long passes/crosses are amazing but still has problems heading. Always seems to be "lazy", but this is just his "cool" outter appearance
My personal opinion? Fair deal. I think you overpaid us for De Jong, made a little bargain with Kompany and Boateng 12.5Mio€ is fair valued (also the amount is given in Boatengs contract, so we have no choice also if it wouldn´t be a fair deal for us).
Sorry for bad language:whistle: