Bundesliga 07/08

[DaveyCakes]

Starts on Friday with the meeting of last year's top two. There's fair few big matches in the first few weeks...Schalke v Dortmund, Bremen v Bayern, Schalke v Leverkusen, Hamburg v Bayern, Dortmund v Bremen, Bayern v Schalke, Bremen v Suttgart all before the end of September...

Friday, 10 August 2007
VfB Stuttgart v Schalke 04, 19:30

Saturday, 11 August 2007
Bayer Leverkusen v Cottbus, 14:30
Bayern Munich v Hansa Rostock, 14:30
Eintracht Frankfurt v Hertha Berlin, 14:30
Hannover 96 v Hamburg, 14:30
VfL Bochum v Werder Bremen, 14:30
Wolfsburg v Arminia Bielefeld, 14:30

Sunday, 12 August 2007
Borussia Dortmund v MSV Duisburg, 16:00
Nurnberg v Karlsruhe, 16:00

Friday, 17 August 2007
Karlsruhe v Hannover 96, 19:30

Saturday, 18 August 2007
Arminia Bielefeld v Eintracht Frankfurt, 14:30
Hansa Rostock v Nurnberg, 14:30
Hertha Berlin v VfB Stuttgart, 14:30
MSV Duisburg v Wolfsburg, 14:30
Schalke 04 v Borussia Dortmund, 14:30
Werder Bremen v Bayern Munich, 14:30


Sunday, 19 August 2007
Cottbus v VfL Bochum, 16:00
Hamburg v Bayer Leverkusen, 16:00

Friday, 24 August 2007
VfL Bochum v Hamburg, 19:30

Saturday, 25 August 2007
Arminia Bielefeld v Hertha Berlin, 14:30
Bayer Leverkusen v Karlsruhe, 14:30
Bayern Munich v Hannover 96, 14:30
Borussia Dortmund v Cottbus, 14:30
Nurnberg v Werder Bremen, 14:30
VfB Stuttgart v MSV Duisburg, 14:30

Sunday, 26 August 2007
Eintracht Frankfurt v Hansa Rostock, 16:00
Wolfsburg v Schalke 04, 16:00


Friday, 31 August 2007
Schalke 04 v Bayer Leverkusen, 19:30

Saturday, 01 September 2007
Cottbus v Nurnberg, 14:30
Hannover 96 v VfL Bochum, 14:30
Hansa Rostock v Borussia Dortmund, 14:30
Hertha Berlin v Wolfsburg, 14:30
MSV Duisburg v Arminia Bielefeld, 14:30
Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt, 14:30

Sunday, 02 September 2007
Hamburg v Bayern Munich, 16:00
Karlsruhe v VfB Stuttgart, 16:00

Friday, 14 September 2007
Borussia Dortmund v Werder Bremen, 19:30

Saturday, 15 September 2007
Arminia Bielefeld v Hansa Rostock, 14:30
Bayer Leverkusen v VfL Bochum, 14:30
Bayern Munich v Schalke 04, 14:30
Eintracht Frankfurt v Hamburg, 14:30
Nurnberg v Hannover 96, 14:30
VfB Stuttgart v Cottbus, 14:30

Sunday, 16 September 2007
MSV Duisburg v Hertha Berlin, 16:00
Wolfsburg v Karlsruhe, 16:00

Sunday, 23 September 2007
Cottbus v Wolfsburg, 14:30
Hamburg v Nurnberg, 14:30
Hannover 96 v Bayer Leverkusen, 14:30
Hansa Rostock v MSV Duisburg, 14:30
Hertha Berlin v Borussia Dortmund, 14:30
Karlsruhe v Bayern Munich, 14:30
Schalke 04 v Arminia Bielefeld, 14:30
VfL Bochum v Eintracht Frankfurt, 14:30
Werder Bremen v VfB Stuttgart, 14:30

[TheBoss]

Should be another great season, I enjoyed watching the Bundesliga last season as throughout most of the, you could not decide, who would be Champions, Champions League/UEFA Cup places and even relegation, I think it might be similar again and that Bayern will win it a little easily.

[frog-gufc]

ya i cant see that anyone will win it bar bayern this year, after signing klose,toni and ribery, hard to believe there not in the champons league this yr

[superfrank]

Their own fault really.

I'm backing Bayern. Schalke and Werder will both be upset not to have won it. I think Stuttgart capitalised on that because for the most part of the season they didn't seem like title winners to me. Then again they won it and I'm sure they'll want to prove it's not a fluke. Though with the signings and releases Bayern heve made I think they'll be the team to beat.

[TheBoss]

Signings Major Clubs:
BAYERN MUNICH
Luca Toni (AC Fiorentina) - 11m E
Franck Ribéry (Olympique Marseille)- 25m E
Marcell Jansen (Borussia Mönchengladbach) - 12m E
José Ernesto Sosa (Estudiantes de la Plata) - 9m E
Hamit Altintop (FC Schalke 04) - FREE
Jan Schlaudraff (Alemannia Aachen) - 1m E
Miroslav Klose (Werder Bremen) - 12m E

WERDER BREMEN
Boubacar Sanogo (Hamburger SV) - 4.5m E
Carlos Alberto (Corinthians) - 7.8m E
Nico-Stephano Pellatz (Hertha BSC) - FREE
Hugo Almeida (FC Porto) - 3.5m E
Duško Tošić (FC Sochaux-Montbeliard) - 1.8m E

STUTTGART
Ciprian Marica (Shakhtyor Donezk) - 7m E
Ewerthon (Real Zaragoza) - 1.2m E - LOAN
Georges Constant Mandjeck (KSA Yaoundé) - 100k E
Yildiray Bastürk (Hertha BSC) - FREE
Gledson (Hansa Rostock) - FREE
Raphael Schäfer (1.FC Nürnberg) - 2m E

SCHALKE
Heiko Westermann (Arminia Bielefeld) - 2.8m E
Jermaine Jones (Eintracht Frankfurt) - FREE
Mathias Schober (Hansa Rostock) - FREE
Ivan Rakitic (FC Basel) - 3m E

HAMBURG
Sebastian Langkamp (FC Bayern München) - FREE
Mohamed Zidan (1.FSV Mainz 05) - 5.8m E
Romeo Castelen (Feyenoord Rotterdam) - 2.5m E

[superfrank]

Basturk and Altintop on frees is pretty impressive. Two solid attacking midfielders.

[DaveyCakes]

It's great to see a bit of interest on the board...I'll be over toward the end of the month so I'm hoping to get 2 or 3 games in...Hertha v Stuttgart and Dortmund v Cottbus and maybe one more..

[DmanDmythDledge]

Hard to look past Bayern for the title, although it could take time for their signings to gel.

[TheBoss]

Anyone going to watch Stuttgart v Schalke on Setanta Sports 1 or will you be following the Drogs v Pats on TG4 ?

[Kingdom]

The signing of ciprian for 7m is good business. He will slot into the bundesliga with ease, expect him to be a top player this season.

[DaveyCakes]

Stuttgart 2 - 2 Schalke
Khedira 63 Kobiashvilli 25
Pardo 67 Rakitic 76

[TheBoss]

The 1st half was decent, both sides were getting into the game. Stuttgart a bit unlucky with the Kobiashvili shot taken a wicked deflection off Hilbert into the net, when the ball was going straight to Schäfer.

The 2nd half was exiting to watch, Stuttgart were brilliant in possession of the ball and did create many chances and scored 2 quick goals. Great pass by Hilbert to Khedira, who put into the net from about 15 yards. The penalty came from a decent shot from Cacau, Nueur parried and the Stuttgart Forward got to the ball before Nueur who took him down and Pardo dispatched the penalty confidently. Schalke responded with a well worked solo goal from Rakitic, who picked up, turned the defender and shot straight past Schäfer from 17-18 yards. Both sides still tried to get the winning but a draw ended up the result.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Shouldn't you have been watching the Drogheda match?

[The Good Son]

Good start for Bayern Munich & their new boys 3-0, Klose 2 and Toni with the goals.

[TheBoss]

Shouldn't you have been watching the Drogheda match ?


Just wanted to watch this game for a change.

[DaveyCakes]

Full weekend results:

Stuttgart 2 - 2 Schalke
Bayern 3 - 0 Rostock
Bochum 2 - 2 Bremen
Leverkusen 0 - 0 Cottbus
Frankfurt 1 - 0 Berlin
Hannover 0 - 1 Hamburg
Wolfsburg 1 - 3 Bielefeld
Nurnberg 0 - 2 Karlsruhe
Dortmund 1 - 3 Duisburg

[TheBoss]

Seems Dortmund are still under-achieving. Nurnburg, they had a stern home defence last season and to lose to Karlsruher at Home, is a bad result.

[TheBoss]

If some of you guys did not know, on www.bwin.com, you can watch Bundesliga games there on their website live when you register an account with them. They also show live Bundesliga 2 and Austrian League football too.

[Dodge]

If some of you guys did not know, on www.bwin.com, you can watch Bundesliga games there on their website live when you register an account with them. They also show live Bundesliga 2 and Austrian League football too.

Just for the record they don't require any CC or bank details

I've watched quite a bit of tennis there...

[TheBoss]

You can do it a few ways, even PayPal.

[Dodge]

You can do it a few ways, even PayPal.

Yeah but the point is you don't have to lodge any money at all. I haven't

I just opened the account and log in to watch...

[TheBoss]

Exactly, if you want to do that :D