Bundesliga catch-up w/ Manuel Veth: Is Ricardo Pepi a sign of things to come for Augsburg, what needs to change for Dortmund to challenge Bayern this season, and will Jesse Marsch get another Bundesliga gig?
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Manuel Veth makes his triumphant return! We discuss a whole lotta Bundesliga, including...
1) Eintracht Frankfurt's strong first half of the campaign
2) Dortmund still looking like a collection of individuals vs a cohesive unit under Marco Rose
3) Bayern Munich continuing to be Bayern Munich
4) The differences in journalistic standards between the United States, Canada and Germany
5) Ricardo Pepi's move to Augsburg: how did it happen and what does it mean for the club's long term plans
6) The role of private investors in skirting the 50+1 rule
7) The roots of Freiburg and Hoffenheim's strong seasons so far
8) The poor results keep coming for Wolfsburg and Gladbach: what happens next?
9) Is Jesse Marsch likely to get another Bundesliga coaching gig anytime soon?
10) Is Domenico Tedesco the man to turn around Leipzig's fortunes?
11) which 2. Bundesliga club is most likely to be playing in the top flight next season, and which ones would be best for the league?
12) Stuttgart struggling, but no pressure on Pellegrino Matarazzo
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:24.3 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:25.5 | I am without any of my usual co-host today because instead I'm joined by an old friend to talk all things Bundesliga. |
| 0:32.7 | It's Manuel Fait of Transfermarked and the Gag Impressing podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | Manuel, great to talk to you again. Oh man, it's so good to be back. And first of all, happy new year. Happy new year to all the listeners. And yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. I think it's been too long and I'm excited to chat anything bonus to you today. Yeah, man. It has been too long. I'm excited to have you back. |
| 0:54.4 | We've had a strange season, not an unexpected season. |
| 0:58.4 | Byrne Munich, top of the table, as always. |
| 1:00.6 | But there have been some surprising results, surprising firing, surprising signings, |
| 1:06.4 | lots and lots of things that we will get to today. |
| 1:09.0 | But I want to start since it's been a while |
| 1:11.0 | since last we spoke. We initially, I initially planned to have you on in the winter break. Our |
| 1:16.3 | schedule did not allow for that. My schedule did not allow for that. So here we are. But |
| 1:19.4 | Manuel, my question for you to begin is, is there a favorite story of yours so far this season? |
| 1:26.2 | Not necessarily like the happiest story or the most feel-good story, but just a topic that |
| 1:30.2 | you think has been particularly interesting for whatever reason so far this campaign. |
| 1:36.0 | Wow, a favorite story for this campaign. |
| 1:38.6 | I think the, and this goes really back to last summer, the seeing the coaching carousel work out. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.7 | I thought that's been really interesting. |
| 1:50.7 | Let's talk about that. |
| 1:51.5 | Let's talk about that coaching carousel for a minute because, yeah, I thought Jesse Marsh was going to be a great signing. |
| 1:58.3 | And here we are, him no longer in charge. |
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