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Author Topic: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund  (Read 159464 times)

Offline Matt C

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1620 on: August 10, 2024, 03:24:57 PM »
No Cash in the squad either

Offline coreyfeldman

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1621 on: August 10, 2024, 03:25:50 PM »
Any chances of rivers for this? Is it being shown anywhere?

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1622 on: August 10, 2024, 03:26:37 PM »
So no pre-season games at all for Ollie. Marvellous.

To be fair we don't exactly need to ease him into the squad.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1623 on: August 10, 2024, 03:28:56 PM »
Like a hundred leftbacks in that squad.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1624 on: August 10, 2024, 03:29:01 PM »
So no pre-season games at all for Ollie. Marvellous.

To be fair we don't exactly need to ease him into the squad.

We do with the number of changes that have been made to it.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1625 on: August 10, 2024, 03:30:20 PM »
Playing Ollie today is like playing Harry Kane in England friendlies, as we already know what he can do. Let's have a look at Rogers and then Archer up front instead, and let Ollie enjoy an extra week's rest before he runs his bollocks off for the season. All good.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1626 on: August 10, 2024, 03:31:23 PM »
So no pre-season games at all for Ollie. Marvellous.

To be fair we don't exactly need to ease him into the squad.

We do with the number of changes that have been made to it.

I think he'll be fine.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1627 on: August 10, 2024, 03:33:33 PM »
I think he'll be fine.

That's a bit of an odd take. He might be fine, but I'd argue that our only striker might like some actual match practice with some of the new players. But even more important is to give some of them experience with Ollie, spotting his runs etc.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1628 on: August 10, 2024, 03:34:53 PM »
Saw on Twitter that we have a behind closed doors friendly midweek which Ollie will play in. Not sure if it’s true though

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1629 on: August 10, 2024, 03:35:58 PM »
I think he'll be fine.

That's a bit of an odd take. He might be fine, but I'd argue that our only striker might like some actual match practice with some of the new players. But even more important is to give some of them experience with Ollie, spotting his runs etc.

My thought is that most of those players whose job it is to spot his runs are players like Tielemans, McGinn, Bailey, Ramsey, Pau even...players who've played with him a lot, basically.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1630 on: August 10, 2024, 03:40:41 PM »
Talk on sm that Ollie has got engaged? So spending time with missus

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1631 on: August 10, 2024, 03:43:31 PM »
Talk on sm that Ollie has got engaged? So spending time with missus

There were photos of him getting engaged at least two weeks ago, but no idea why that would qualify him for extra time off.

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1632 on: August 10, 2024, 03:46:24 PM »
Saw on Twitter that we have a behind closed doors friendly midweek which Ollie will play in. Not sure if it’s true though
I would expect that to be the case. To run through specific drills etc and for some work in the legs for Ollie in particular but a few others also.

Offline astonvilla82

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1633 on: August 10, 2024, 03:48:28 PM »
Talk on sm that Ollie has got engaged? So spending time with missus

There were photos of him getting engaged at least two weeks ago, but no idea why that would qualify him for extra time off.
Probably his missus telling he's spending too much time with his football mates and he doesn't love her anymore 😭

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Re: Pre-season 2024/25 - Borussia Dortmund
« Reply #1634 on: August 10, 2024, 03:48:33 PM »
Any chances of rivers for this? Is it being shown anywhere?

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