2018 - 2019 Football Thread - Page 162

On March 26 2019 15:32 mahrgell wrote:


When they change nationality, because they don't find a spot in their "original" national team, there is usually barely anyone caring about it.
But when they change nationality (or decide for one of their multiple nationality) to play for a "better" national team... yeah, there is quite some shit storm.

So when a Podolski or an Özil decided to play for Germany, there was a decent amount of complaining from the Polish/Turkish side.
While usually nobody gives a damn, when players who were eligible to play for Germany decide to play for whatever else because they don't see a chance in the German squad. An interesting example would be probably the newest super star of Barcelona, Kevin Prince Boateng, who unlike his brother decided to play for Cameroon, because he saw no future in the German NT. In winter sports there is also a quite well known guy in Biathlon, who suddenly took the Belgian citizenship because he had a grandma over there. And nobody was really bitter at him.

Most of those cases also pretty clearly show: It is usually not even that easy to assign players to one nationality. So the borders become blurry.


One might add, that the acceptance of pure sports mercenaries in Germany isn't the highest though: E.g. in figure skating, where the top pair of Germany is a Ukrainian and a French, you will hear very mixed responses of "how German" people feel that pair is. But unlike the cases of an Özil or Podolski or whoever, this is mostly as people really see no connection to Germany whatsoever with this pair. There are some other sports, where we have most sports mercenaries too, but they barely make it into the spot light.

On March 27 2019 15:14 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Oh with that 3-3 finish it didn't feel so bad at all. Sweden was better all around anyway.

On March 26 2019 20:05 Pandemona wrote:
The centre back who can play left back who was rumored to Bayern for ages for a crazy fee. Not sure why Bayern throwing so much money at this guy, they could have got the two best CBs from Bundesliga and still have change left for that fee. Interesting.

On March 28 2019 13:23 GTR wrote:
i know the spanish teams have a requirement to put a release clause on every player, but is there a ELI5 as to why?

On March 28 2019 16:09 Bacillus wrote:

I'm not sure why exactly it is in the rulebook, but I don't think most of the release clauses were even considered that carefully until PSG bought Neymar and the whole market went crazy. Even 3 years ago, that 80 million would probably have been way too much for anyone to even consider.