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Jorge wrote:

tflags wrote: LOL. Somehow Jorge managed to avoid the Gotze thread altogether.

I guess I did. I do not have a clue about what you are talking about since unfortunately I do not spend much time in the forum anymore.
At the end of the day I just provided a general statement that you can apply to any particular discussion about German and non-German players, it could be Gotze, Thiago or Andreas Ottl. I feel like this forum is so polarized that you are in one camp or the other and there is no middle ground and common sense anymore.

If you are under the impression German players get the same treatment (in this forum) as non-German ones AND/OR you are under the impression Thiago got the same treatment as Gotze then we will continue to have a conflicting point of view.

Now you said 'new fans' believe 'German character' is less important. By that I guess you mean I am a 'new fan' (having no clue as to when I started following the team) and 'we' think German character is less important. I couldn't be prouder/happy/interested/admired about a team winning by their own home grown talent, whether it comes from Bilbao, Wales/Swansea, Barcelona or Munich; more or less the teams with the more (or less) known use of local talent. I love football, and being lucky enough to have home grown talent is simply priceless.

But when you are under the impression that overstretches to avoiding certain players because the locals are better (Gotze vs Neymar as the more palpable example) that's when I think this principle gets disorted and does the team actual harm rather then good.

You also just said Thiago is slowly being accepted and you compared him to other players before him. Looks like you haven't been reading this forum at all. Game in and out we have people criticing him in this forum while the outside world is doing exactly the opposite. And yes, I find it anoying.

*I* hate beet.

There's some bias against Thiago by some members who just want to see him fail god knows why.

People's opinion lately are very unstable in general. A few bad weeks and everything changes. People need to chill down and remember the long term and not just what happened two hours ago. Lots of knee-jerk reactions. When this is negative, it's mostly against the newer foreign players (Thiago, Coman, Costa). But there is also some positive overreaction to German performances (Kimmich, Rode).

As I said, we need to calm down, appreciate the players who show lots of commitment to the club, and look at the long term picture when talking about players' worth.

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Just to be clear, I wanted him gone... but see that not everyone is of the same opinion.

There are club legends then there are others...

I can summarize the whole issue with one saying:

"Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink."

This is a forum after all and almost everyone comes from a different background in terms of being a football fan. I'm literally the only one in the middle east that likes Badstuber and I always comment on facebook about how I like him, I get negative replies but I just walk away.

We all should learn to listen and just accept that people have opinions and convictions just like you do. If we both saw an apple and a guy said it's an orange I'll just tell him it's not and stop right there. LEARN TO STOP RIGHT THERE.

People can have diferent favorite players. After all its a german club.

MUTU wrote:You only find it annoying because he's your favourite player.

I will make you a bet MUTU, because from the years in this forum i've noticed non-Germans tend to enjoy less respect than their German counterparts.

I bet you a German coach with three consecutive titles and two pokals - no champions league title but decent runs - who gets called a "cocroach" here for no apparent good reason and after insiatable criticism will earn whoever posts the insult at least a temporary ban.

If you can wholeheartedly say you don't think that is the case; then I'll leave your forum without further criticism and I will retire my previous comments.

Did anyone call you 'cockroach'? Stop calling people out with intent to provoke to just victimize for no reason after.

I just feel honored that a fellow forum member started a tread from something that I said .

In summary, I do not keep track of the array of opinions when it comes to players preference so I doubt that I ever got involved in a Gotze/ Thiago controversy. If I have to look at it in retrospective, yes Gotze was regarded as the future of the German football when he broke through at Dortmund, more than members of this forum this idea floated around in the German media, was endorsed by most pundits, validated by coaches and players and the consensus was so general that makes me believe that it influenced this forum. Along these lines part of Bayern's history and tradition is to attract the German talent and Gotze at the time perfectly fit the mold, true he was not a Bayern youth product but being born in Bavaria is another connection to Bayern's tradition of recruiting local talent.

Now let's move to Thiago. He arrived in Munich with zero connections to Bayern except the coach who for the most part was a divisive figure and many felt he was not going to last beyond his contract and it was not unreasonable to think that he was going to follow the coach at one point or go in a different direction unless he grew roots in Munich. Add to this that Thiago was a bench player in Barcelona while Gotze was a rising star in the Bundesliga. Gotze being a year younger was already established in the German senior NT while Thiago with a history in the Spanish youth squads had been seldom called to the senior team.

But football stories untangled in many different ways, in less than 3 years Thiago is a much better player than Gotze, Thiago is still in Munich and seems adapted in the Post Guardiola era, Gotze is gone and at the end he will never be remembered as a Bayern player while Thiago is making history each day.

Are forum members biased for German players? Yes, no doubt. Bayern is a German club with a long tradition of Bavarian and German identity. I am sure that Barca fans are even more biased to Catalonians because obvious political reasons, and although Thiago was born in Italy he grew up in Barcelona and will be welcome back at any time as one of their owns if he decides so.

My personal opinion is that accepting German or Bavarian players quicker than non German players is a natural thing and not necessarily a bad thing, if it was the other way around we will become quicker the GSP and Manchester City that we refuse to become.

Honestly, its all over Europe.

In England, they will always support their brits moreso than foreign players. Especially, if they came out from the youth system. So, its not really unusual at all..

However, with that said, it's obvious that there is a bias against the Spanish/South americans. Especially, the kids pep brought in personally. Last season, after the lost to Madrid I pointed it out. Yet, people rejected the idea.....

Most criticized players are

Alonso
thiago
Bernat (even though he is a sub and doesnt play much)
Douglas Costa

Another factor is also playstyle and player attributes.

Like I said before, it's like girls... Some guys like fatties with duck faces, while others need some hot fit gym chick.

It's still weird for me to think people support a club because of a national team. When I was younger in my head the national team was like a bonus or something.