New players

[House M.D.]

Bailly and Onyewu have already agreed, we only need their club´s permissions.

Onyewu's going to sign a contract in Marseille.

[oldparish]

Disappointing if he is. Where did you hear that Frank?Also on sky sports.com Steve Gohouri is looking for a move to the English premiership.Any truth in that?Marko and Baumjohann off to FC Hollywood.Ziege's gone off because he didn't get along with Hans Meyer (allegedly).Everything seems to be progressing nicely,then.

[frank_schleck]

The BILD and the EXPRESS wrote that Borussia had an agreement with Onyewu and Bailly, well, that was obviously wrong as House M.D. already said.
A true thing is, that Thomas Galasek will probably sign a contract tomorrow or at the end of the week. Many of us think he is too old, but i hope he can help us.
Further there have been rumours about Edgar Davids - seems as if Borussia has talked to him already. Paul Stalteri is also a very common rumour, it´s probably the only guy some people believe in here. They all thought we´d buy Ronaldo and Kaka, otherwise they wouldn´t be as disappointed as they are now.
The BILD wrote something about a trade between Borussia and Stuttgart like Baumjohann <-> Bastürk, which is a lie I think.
Hmm, that´s been it, nothing new in the topics Klimowicz and Klasnic.

Ah, right good old Mr.Stefes will be Ziege´s successor. That´s been it, the average mood here is maybe something between hope and desperation.

[oldparish]

I think everyone is losing heart Frank.Just look at the way no one writes on this English language forum anymore.It's just so disappointing to see such a great club become a yo-yo club.The trouble is we'll be a yo-yo club with just one yo Zweite liga and then become the new Rostock.The people that run the club are to blame.They are always looking for the cheap option.Why didn't they give the job to Christian Ziege and leave it at that.It was only one game but there was a huge improvement in Bochum compared to the rubbish we were playing under Jos.

[frank_schleck]

I don´t think Ziege would have done much better so far. I mean - all he got is a draw in Bochum. How embarrassing would a loss have been? Bochum didn´t win more than 1 match, so they are not better than we are. I think Jos or at least Meyer would have got a point there as well.
I still hope that we get about 15-20 points in the new year so we can get it.

[oldparish]

I reckon 7 wins and 4 draws will see us safe but God knows where we will get them from

[oldparish]

TWO WEEKS OFF!!! I wouldn't give them two days off.

[frank_schleck]

I reckon 7 wins and 4 draws will see us safe but God knows where we will get them from

I don´t know how you can think that we will need 37 points
If Cottbus, Karslruhe, Bochum and Bielefeld improve less than we do, we won´t need more than 30 points.

[oldparish]

just to be on the safe side ,Frank.

[frank_schleck]

A few month ago Heribert Bruchhagen (Frankfurt´s general manager) said that you will need 25 points to be on 16th place after the season. So this is still doable.

[oldparish]

Of course that's do-able.Especially if we get off to a good start to the ruckrunde.By the way any news on a new keeper?

[frank_schleck]

Bailly seems to be sure that he will come - he "said bye" to the fans in belgium and many newspapers say that he has already agreed the contract, it´s only a question of the money Borussia has to pay. They want 2,5 Mio €, Borussia wants to pay 2 Mio.

[oldparish]

Good news at last.I see that Alexander Madlung may be coming as well.Any thoughts?do you think there is still a chance of Klasnic joining us?What are the papers saying over there.

[frank_schleck]

Bailly, Stalteri and and Galasek are coming.
Klasnic - who knows, I haven´t read anything about him for a long time.
Madlung - a newspaper from Wolfsburg wrote that he would stay in Wolfsburg.
I think there will be 1-2 new players left, one defender and one attacker maybe

[oldparish]

Thanks Frank,I'm very grateful for the updates.

[Jorro]

In Belgian newspapers is written today that Dante will make the move from Standard de Liege to Borussia !

[oldparish]

blimey lads we'll have a whole new team by the restart.

[frank_schleck]

They couldn´t do much worse than Levels; Jaures and the others
Well, merry christmas with the best wishes for the next year and hopefully the new players will help us to reach the 15th place

[oldparish]

Sorry it's a day late but the same to you Frank.And a Happy New Year also.And to all Borussia fans.I think the club have made an effort to change things, and if we go down(and I don't think we will now) at least we've made an effort to do something about it.I would like to have seen Klasnic come as well and us get rid of "Jos' dross" but it seems that we've bought who we are going to buy.I'm actually looking forward to the re-start in January.

[oldparish]

Read elsewhere on this forum that this chap Nenad Milijas that we are supposedly looking at is the "Balkan Ballack".Well that'll be fine as long as it's the Leverkusen Ballack an npt the one that turns out these days at Chelsea