Phil Buckingham has just tweeted that he's heard there could be a pre-season in Germany. I wonder if it's linked to a player signing? Probably Lewandowski...
Or maybe not... Pete O'Rourke ‏@SkySportsPeteO 2m Borussia Dortmund's general manager Hans-Joachim Watzke insists Robert Lewandowski will not leave this summer. It's actually more likely to be part of a deal to shift Proschwitz.
In my German GCSE speaking and listening, my friend duped me into saying my favourite food was 'pimmel' curry when I had a mind blank on the German word for 'chicken'. This of course means 'penis' curry. Classic stuff that. I still passed like. So yeah, rock on German friendly!
Ariel Borysiuk from Kaiserslautern (I think that's where he is) would be a great midfield option in the PL, but Kiessling would definitely be awesome. There are loads of players in the Bundesliga I'd love to see at City, like Nordveit, Skjelbred, Andreas Beck and Pocognoli. I think the reason we're playing the pre season friendly is part of the deal we had with FC Paderborn when we signed Proschwitz, as opposed to a deal to get rid of him. I suspect it's against them.
Naming random footballers from the Bundesliga will just make that poster who pretends to be a scout come back on here.
Agree on the last point. One of the matches will probably be against Paderborn. We would never ever get KieÃling though. He was top scorer in the Bundesliga last season.
That's German for double "s", presumably they don't like to use that these days for obvious reasons! My mother wouldn't be impressed if she knew I'd said that.
I know someone's gonna hit me because its not likely and I keep going on about it, but Sebastian Kehl?? He would be fabulous as our holding midfielder.