⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Bundesliga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2025/2026

[darxiaomi]

@darxiaomi @buwaytress, I am very satisfied with my performance in this pool thus far. I told you that I will deliver a brutal fight to finish behind everyone else and this was a first big step towards that goal. I couldn't be any more proud of myself. Unbelievable...

But to be honest here, if anyone was at 15+ points now, something must have been wrong with that person Leverkusen loses at home against Hoffenheim (which I took as one of the teams being relegated...). Union beats Stuttgart. Freiburg gets destroyed by Augsburg. Dortmund loses a 3-1 lead in the last five minutes of regulation time. 9 points for Kanapda are not even bad given these results.

Ey man i miss your post between the ton of post and the days, but here im to answer.

Well i see i and buwaytress betrayed you taking 2 more points on the round and being some wanabes contender for upper positions, for sure in a few more rounds we are gonna be right next to you in the real fight, which clearly is for relegation.

[cygan]

today, i was finally able to convert our prize pool for places 1-3
the prize money for places 1 to 3 is now as follows:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5548100.0

3rd place gets back 10 times their entry fee and i've ‘secured’ what's left over for the tx fees, just to be on the safe side.

[buwaytress]

Hello! My name is Erik ten Hag. I am a special manager. I now coach a team who was unbeaten all season two years ago and still finished second last season. We did lose half of our team, but I'm very good and I know how to make the best of good players at the core. I even brought in one of the most promising English CBs who scored on his debut!

Today, we played a team expected to lose, even a relegation candidate. We did so well and took a 3-1 lead, with them reduced to ten men.

But I thought to myself, do I really want the season to be so dull? Wouldn't I be a legend if I somehow ended mid-season with a 10 point gap to Bayern but hauled them back? I would be... a hero even more so than Alonso?

And so, today's draw was not bad luck. It was not bad football.

It is merely part of the plan.

My plan.

I am Erik ten Hag.

[KTChampions]

Hello! My name is Erik ten Hag. I am a special manager. I now coach a team who was unbeaten all season two years ago and still finished second last season. We did lose half of our team, but I'm very good and I know how to make the best of good players at the core. I even brought in one of the most promising English CBs who scored on his debut!

Today, we played a team expected to lose, even a relegation candidate. We did so well and took a 3-1 lead, with them reduced to ten men.

But I thought to myself, do I really want the season to be so dull? Wouldn't I be a legend if I somehow ended mid-season with a 10 point gap to Bayern but hauled them back? I would be... a hero even more so than Alonso?

And so, today's draw was not bad luck. It was not bad football.

It is merely part of the plan.

My plan.

I am Erik ten Hag.

  I can't wait for this maniac's press conference to become available. How could you screw up the game with a 2 goal handicap + one player more? That's the aura.
I see that before this round, "Bild" supposedly, based on leaks, assumed that Ten Hag could be fired immediately after the second round if the result was unsuccessful. A good opportunity to check how informed they are!

[darxiaomi]

I am Erik ten Hag of cross league goal madness

Is incredible how bad he is doing right now on Leverkusen, and this gives us the opportunity to think something pretty serious. Is he a really good coach? I mean after the failure in Mancheste United and this abd start, maybe he had only a very good run with a bunch of players who really understood his commands (at Ajax) and outside of that is not so good.

[buwaytress]

I can't wait for this maniac's press conference to become available. How could you screw up the game with a 2 goal handicap + one player more? That's the aura.
I see that before this round, "Bild" supposedly, based on leaks, assumed that Ten Hag could be fired immediately after the second round if the result was unsuccessful. A good opportunity to check how informed they are!

You can if you're ten Hag. I just saw that Bild report too! I was somewhat joking around yesterday but if it's true, then he must be such a genius to change the minds of the owners/managers so quickly.

Is incredible how bad he is doing right now on Leverkusen, and this gives us the opportunity to think something pretty serious. Is he a really good coach? I mean after the failure in Mancheste United and this abd start, maybe he had only a very good run with a bunch of players who really understood his commands (at Ajax) and outside of that is not so good.

His English isn't worse than ours, but maybe Ajax was such a talent factory it didn't really need a great manager to punch? It can't be bad luck when United pretty much stuck with him and gave him freedom to buy whomever he wanted.

[KTChampions]

I can't wait for this maniac's press conference to become available. How could you screw up the game with a 2 goal handicap + one player more? That's the aura.
I see that before this round, "Bild" supposedly, based on leaks, assumed that Ten Hag could be fired immediately after the second round if the result was unsuccessful. A good opportunity to check how informed they are!

You can if you're ten Hag. I just saw that Bild report too! I was somewhat joking around yesterday but if it's true, then he must be such a genius to change the minds of the owners/managers so quickly.

Yes, that would be brilliant. Firstly, he would get compensation for breaking the contract. Secondly, two games would leave him room to pretend that it wasn't his fault and he just didn't have enough time. That way, he could find another victim and sell to it his services 
I wonder if Koln can hold on to the 1-0 score, I would be happy as that would give me 4 points  It's a pity that in any case I'm already at least 1 point behind the yellow cap.

[cygan]

the second matchday ended yesterday with a 4-1 home win for promoted köln against sc freiburg
and with 18 points cygan was able to secure his first free bet on sportsbet.io and also made the biggest jump upwards

[Harkorede]

Erik Ten Hang have been relieved of his duties as the head coach of Bayer Leverkusen which means now have one of the bonus results, just after the 2nd week in the season, I'm not sure if anyone in the pool did pick Bayer Leverkusen to be the first team to sack its coach.

Full news as per Fabrizio Romano on X
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1962450040657502627

[KTChampions]

Erik Ten Hang have been relieved of his duties as the head coach of Bayer Leverkusen which means now have one of the bonus results, just after the 2nd week in the season, I'm not sure if anyone in the pool did pick Bayer Leverkusen to be the first team to sack its coach.

Full news as per Fabrizio Romano on X
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1962450040657502627

  They write that this is the fastest resignation in the history of the German championship. How good he is! Apparently these are the two most expensive games in history because he will receive a payment for dismissal.
I would also be interested to know if someone chose Bayer as the first club to change the coach, I hope the lucky one will write here.

Congratulations to cygan. If the freebet is successful, publish it here 

[morvillz7z]

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Is kicktipp down right now for anyone else? Site won't load for me... edit; never mind, it's fixed now, i had to turn off/on my privacy extensions.

I suppose giving away a two-goal lead while also playing against ten men was too much for the Bayer Leverkusen bosses to handle/swallow.

That first pre-season game against Flamengo U20, the 5:1 loss, seemed like an omen of things to come...

[cygan]

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Congratulations to cygan. If the freebet is successful, publish it here 

thanks bud!

and what happened in leverkusen was actually predictable...
so now the first bonus question has been answered and it looks like nobody had Ten Hag on their list

[cryptofrka]

I honestly hate that pressure to deliver immediately. What can you do in 2 games?

I don't think he's a great manager, he was good in Ajax though so that has to be said. Nobody should be tossed aside after 2 games - especially considering that in one of those (Werder) a team of seasoned professionals should not even need a coach to win.
He made 4 substitutions prior to Werder's red card so it was the players that are to blame. He didn't really put Schick on goal, did he?

He's annoying and full of himself - so I'm glad he's out of the club I like. But this is not what I want to see in football.

[LTU_btc]

Erik Ten Hang have been relieved of his duties as the head coach of Bayer Leverkusen which means now have one of the bonus results, just after the 2nd week in the season, I'm not sure if anyone in the pool did pick Bayer Leverkusen to be the first team to sack its coach.

Full news as per Fabrizio Romano on X
https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1962450040657502627

They're idiots or what? How you can sack coach after just 2 games? You can love or hate Ten Haag, but it's just nonsense decison. You sell almost all key players in summer and now what you can expect that coach is magician and will make Bayer into tittle contender with such squad.
Terrible time for former MU coaches - Mourinho, Solskjaer, now Ten Haag. Who is next?

[mv1986]

I honestly hate that pressure to deliver immediately. What can you do in 2 games?

I don't think he's a great manager, he was good in Ajax though so that has to be said. Nobody should be tossed aside after 2 games - especially considering that in one of those (Werder) a team of seasoned professionals should not even need a coach to win.
He made 4 substitutions prior to Werder's red card so it was the players that are to blame. He didn't really put Schick on goal, did he?

He's annoying and full of himself - so I'm glad he's out of the club I like. But this is not what I want to see in football.

Getting sacked after 2 games is crazy, there is no doubt about that. But from what I have heard in the media, there was far more going on in the background then the public is aware of and I believe that. Could probably be disagreements about the transfer policy, but the truth is that most of it was known beforehand. The question only was whether some stars go to Bayern or to Liverpool. Apart from that he left some of the new and the old players in the dark. They said he barely communicated any collective goal and told the players what role will be theirs. Still 2 games is crazy, but if you see that a coach gets into arguments with players in the first weeks and then bad results come on top, it is difficult to say what you should do.

One thing is for sure, this move is so wild that the bosses who decided to sign him and now decided to sack him should suffer from consequences too. That's the thing that annoys me the most. I wonder how much money they have to pay him. They should offer Rolfes (the guy responsible) to either leave the club or pay part of the severance pay for ten Hag from his own pocket. Creating this bullshit and then go on as if nothing happened is crazy.

[buwaytress]

^ Well, I actually feel bad about calling out ten Hag now that he's actually gone.

I've always defended the manager's need for time and patience but something tells me this was a bit different. Seems to have rubbed everyone the wrong way, from management to the dressing room -- might be they were told something else and they saw something completely different. A handful of games might have been enough to suggest things weren't going to change toward what they had been told to expect.

Feel bad for the guy but EtH walks away with compensation and a slight sting on his cheek knowing others have walked into jobs after far worse. The club, on the other hand, will, no doubt, pay the most consequence for this.

[KTChampions]

They're idiots or what? How you can sack coach after just 2 games? You can love or hate Ten Haag, but it's just nonsense decison. You sell almost all key players in summer and now what you can expect that coach is magician and will make Bayer into tittle contender with such squad.
Terrible time for former MU coaches - Mourinho, Solskjaer, now Ten Haag. Who is next?

They are 100% not idiots (okay, maybe 99.9%), it’s just that from the outside the decision seems incomprehensible to us because we don’t have all the information. I am sure that there were serious internal factors and ETH was the cause of them, maybe it was a problem in the locker room (ETH's ego is well known), maybe it was some scandals with the management (he was not allowed to buy half of the Ajax team for astronomical amounts of money  ). In some ways, ETH turned out to be so unacceptable that management took such a step, questionable from all sides.

[LTU_btc]

They are 100% not idiots (okay, maybe 99.9%), it’s just that from the outside the decision seems incomprehensible to us because we don’t have all the information. I am sure that there were serious internal factors and ETH was the cause of them, maybe it was a problem in the locker room (ETH's ego is well known), maybe it was some scandals with the management (he was not allowed to buy half of the Ajax team for astronomical amounts of money  ). In some ways, ETH turned out to be so unacceptable that management took such a step, questionable from all sides.

Probably some things happened behind the curtains, but still, I would blame Bayer board for what happened. Things like Ten Hag ego was known before, it's first red flag. And I'm sure that they had discussions before signing contract about what they can do on transfer window. So, for me it's strange that they decided to sign contract and things went so wrong just after 2 rounds that only remaining option was to sack Ten Hag.

[darxiaomi]

What the hell just hapened, i cant quote everyone since we are talking about the same, but WTF i repeat WTF is in the head of LEverkusen management right now?

And i say this after saying i dont like him as a coach for what i saw in his pass from Manchester, but sacking him in only 2 games after he do all the work on the preseason and BUY-SELL the players he want or he dont like is a super stupid movement, i mean the next coach is gonna work with the players selected by other? No sense.

[cryptofrka]

If you have doubts about his character (which you obviously should), then you don't hire him in the first place.
I would maybe understand if it was a club that came from 3rd tier to Bundesliga in 2 years, so the structure isn't properly in place. But we're talking about a Bundesliga runner up from last year, a team in the CL, this is pure incompetence from the board.

They must have done their due dilligence. What did they expect? The guy is as problematic as a schoolbus filled with Mourinhos.

If they have a bad season, which is now quite likely, this mess will be behind it. A new guy coming in now without a pre-season - good luck, fellas.