The 'where are they now?' files

[nineteen]

Never played for Liverpool but plenty of fans wanted him: Max Meyer.....released twice in one year, most recently from Koeln.

Some fall for grace considering he was a wunderkind with bundesliga experience as a teenager at schalke.

Spent three years at Palace under Woy. Death knell!

[SB]

That’ll do it to ya

[Corndog]

He could have gone anywhere as well, he was 22/23, highly rated and on a free transfer and he took the money and went to hodge.....

[rudedog]

modern players, they are only in it for the smints.

[frank the tank]

I was on a flight to Singapore with work a few years ago and the TV entertainment included a documentary on schalke. Was really good.... About how they were a. Conveyor belt of talent at the time. Draxler was class for them back then and the talk was at the time about how Max Meyer would be same level. Others that came through there at around that time were Howedes, Neuer, Sane, Ozil, Matip, Kolasinac. They also bought Rakitic. It was their "dream team" and I think a lot of them left on free transfers..........crazy to see how they fell away as a club. Also, a club like Schalke is a perfect argument for salary caps in football. I'm not saying it would be the right thing to do, but it would result in a scenario where clubs would go through purple patches and keep some of their players more easily

[Angryred]

I was on a flight to Singapore with work a few years ago and the TV entertainment included a documentary on schalke. Was really good.... About how they were a. Conveyor belt of talent at the time. Draxler was class for them back then and the talk was at the time about how Max Meyer would be same level. Others that came through there at around that time were Howedes, Neuer, Sane, Ozil, Matip, Kolasinac. They also bought Rakitic. It was their "dream team" and I think a lot of them left on free transfers..........crazy to see how they fell away as a club. Also, a club like Schalke is a perfect argument for salary caps in football. I'm not saying it would be the right thing to do, but it would result in a scenario where clubs would go through purple patches and keep some of their players more easily

Aye, would make sense & level the playing field but Bayern have a monopoly that allows them to cherry-pick the best players at other clubs. It's insane that Bayern, a club that's been around only 50 years has been allowed to do that by the DFR & the rest of the Bundesliga!...Bit like what we are seeing at City/Chelsea in the PL

[Norbs]

And PSG

Edit: Just googled Bayern and they were founded 120 years ago or am I missing something?

[frank the tank]

I think they were a small club until the 60s / 70s. (probably until Beckenbauer). So the comparison with PSG, city and Chelsea is apt

I might be wrong but I thought that the Bundesliga itself is only around since the 60s I think. Before that it was regional leagues and a national cup in Germany.

[S-RED]

Love this image

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[Buzzo]

That’s a lot of Bells

[S-RED]

thats a lot of manager of the month awards; they used to get a bottle for every MOM

[Buzzo]

Absolute rats piss.

[Irishnev]

Still going great Bobby

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[Pablo]

Vejle Boldklub sounds like a club name Shaggy would make up

[Rich]

Still going great Bobby

https://twitter.com/footyinsider247/...41553020653573

How to ruin a career - he must be a nightmare for staff.