Here at CaughtOffside, we've ranked their chances of winning from 23 - 1 — with two familiar candidates and a batch of World
Cup winning Germans battling for top spot.
Ronaldo is favourite for the prestigious award but six World
Cup winning Germans are on the shortlist including: Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos, Manuel Neuer, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Philipp Lahm.
But who better to learn from than the World
Cup winning German.
Theo Walcott, Miyachi and David Ospina are long term casualties, while the World
Cup winning German trio Mertesacker, Ozil and Podolski are expected to return to action this weekend.
According to some recent Arsenal transfer rumours, the World
Cup winning German forward Lukas Podolski is set to leave the club before the summer transfer window closes next Monday.
The 49 - year old was asked about it in his weekly question and answer column for the Daily Mail and he had some really good things to say about the World
Cup winning German, especially his qualities as a leader.
The chances are that Arsene Wenger was going to use the summer transfer market to boost our defence anyway but the long term absence of the World
Cup winning German made it even more imperative.
Our world
cup winning German contingent needed time to recuperate too so we were without their services.
Also adding that the team would be even stronger and can reach the desired goals this season when the World
Cup winning German trio return back to the starting line up for the Gunners.
The World
Cup winning German International, who joined the Gunners in 2012 from Bundesliga side FC Koln for # 11m, spent the second half of last season on loan to Inter Milan in... Continue reading →
The boss had earlier last month announced that he was giving the World
Cup winning German trio of Per Mertesacker,
The boss had earlier last month announced that he was giving the World
Cup winning German trio of Per Mertesacker, Mesut Ozil & Lukas Podolski a long and deserving break to enable them get enough rest and subsequently back to full fitness and not rushing them back to competitive football.
Arsenal's World
Cup winning German star Lukas Podolski has been the subject of a transfer speculation with reports linking the Arsenal forward away from the Emirates this summer.
The World
Cup winning German was unable to provide the leadership required to sort out his side's stuttering back - line.
Arsenal however, will be boosted by the return and reintegration of their World
Cup winning German trio (Mesut Ozil, Lukas Podolski and Per Mertesacker) which will all be available for selection against Slaven Bilic's Side
The World
Cup winning German International, who joined the Gunners in 2012 from Bundesliga side FC Koln for # 11m, spent the second half of last season on loan to Inter Milan in the Italian Serie A following limited playing time at Arsenal.
He was part of the World
Cup winning German squad in 2014.
Not exact matches
And the
German vice-captain knows very well that unless they start well, there's no way they can add a Premier League title to their back - to - back FA
Cup wins in the last couple of years.
Thomas Mueller scores twice for Joachim Low's side to deliver the
Germans» fourth World
Cup, and making them the first European nation to
win the trophy in South America.
Per Mertesacker had missed the FA
cup win over Burnley due to his red card against Chelsea but he was available to face the Saints and Arsene Wenger has always kept faith with the
German defender before, despite the odd mistake.
The
German said, «I know that I have a lot more potential to show but if you look at the last two years, we've been successful and have
won the FA
Cup twice.
Shkodran Mustafi, was also part of that
German World
Cup winning squad in Brazil two years ago.
No top club will leave the manager in the job for decades without
winning the league because they
win fa
cups, spanish
cups, french
cups,
german cups, italian
cups and so on.
After
winning a long list of honours with Zenit St Petersburg, including a Uefa
Cup, he joined
German club Stuttgart where he failed to make an impact before coming to England.
So is this an added bonus to have the World
Cup winning defender and his fellow
German Mesut Ozil in the Arsenal team?
However, for the all - conquering Bavarians, the French wide man has been in imperious form as Bayern
won the Bundesliga,
German Cup and Uefa Champions League last season, with the 30 - year - old being their star performer along the way in their Treble.
The
German tactician will be hoping for a strong
cup run to coincide with Liverpool's bid to
win the Premier League title this season, and although he has freshened things up after a busy festive schedule, he'll be confident in those starting to get the job done.
And regarding Harry Redknapp, Jardim, Tuchel (
German Cup) has
won as much as Redknapp and progressed further in the CL than Redknapp in 3 decades.
English clubs have
won four of their five European
Cup / Champions League final encounters with
German clubs, the only exception being Bayern Munich's
win against Leeds Utd in 1975.
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker gave Arsene Wenger a fresh injury worry after leaving Wembley in a protective boot, with the
German sustaining an ankle problem against Reading in Saturday's FA
Cup semi-final
win.
Yeah lets sell our
German international world
cup winning CB.
Since 1954, while the
Germans had
won their three World
Cup titles, the Americans had
won but a single World
Cup match — a 2 - 1 upset of Colombia in Los Angeles four years ago.
To be fair we may not rate him that much but he is a
German World
Cup winning international with 48international goals to his name and 31 in 81 for us on paper it's quite impressive
«A few years ago, Germany
won the World
Cup and the
German players came in just a few days before the first game of the season, but they missed that.
Even the much praised Jurgen klopp has only
won 1
German cup and a couple of charity shields in the last 3 season, yet dortmund have the biggest attendances and loads of money.
Despite
winning the league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the
German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first place.
Draxler, who has 40 appearances for his country, is prone to injury at times, but was made captain of the young
German side that
won the Confederations
Cup and was even given the Golden Ball for the Best Player of the Tournament as well.
Ozil has
won several trophies too in all the clubs he has played in and he is a world
cup winner with the
German national team.
The 59 year old UEFA boss is quoted by the BBC as saying the annual prize for the world's best player should be given to a world champion, meaning a member of the
German 2014 Brazil World
Cup winning squad.
Our
German World
Cup winning striker has made no secret of his own frustration, although Wenger has recently declared that Podolski is still part of his plans.
His time at the club as seen him
win two Bundesliga titles and the
German Cup, while he also guided his side to the Champions League final back in 2013.
With the
German World
Cup winning trio of Ozil, Podolski and Mertesacker still unavailable and with Gibbs and Sanogo staying in London because of injury problems, the boss has a depleted squad to work with, especially at the back, so I would not be surprised to see Wenger take the game to our Turkish opponents, rather than trying to keep it tight.
Having described Wilshere as the perfect player, the man who scored the
winning goal in the World
Cup final chose Wilshere over the likes of Messi, Ronaldo and his
German team mates like Mesut Ozil.
The Gunners have been linked to the
German international Mario Gotze for so long it seems hard to believe that the Bayern Munich star is only 23 and has already scored the
winning goal in a World
Cup Final.
He was named MVP of last summer's U.S.
Cup, which Germany also
won, and his inspired play over the past year led one
German newspaper to declare recently that Klinsmann has «fallen in love with soccer for the second time.»
The first time the
German international play maker face them was a brilliant 2 - 0
win at the Emirates and the Gunners also beat them on the way to lifting the FA
cup trophy that season.
Thus to speak with Jürgen Klinsmann, one of the stars of the
German national team that
won the World
Cup in 1990 and will try to
win another beginning this week, you make your approach discreetly.
The
German has taken part in 5 EPL games this season and was only on the
winning side once (against Everton) and his last competitive match was in our awful FA
Cup elimination to Nottingham Forest.
As reported by The Mirror, the
German who refused to celebrate after his late penalty save saw Arsenal reach the Champions League final because just getting there was not enough, has already been questioning the current players about why the form that saw us beat Chelsea to
win the FA
cup was not on show at the crucial stage of the league campaign.
In 206 appearances for the club, Aubameyang has scored 135 goals and assisted 34 times as well, which has helped the club
win one
German cup and two
German Super Cups, something that may not have been possible without Mislintat's keen eye for talent.