Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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for week of 5/3

Bayern oust Klinsmann, install Heynckess
In an extremely rare move for the otherwise orderly club, Bayern Munich have sacked coach Jürgen Klinsmann with just five League games to go in an attempt of salvaging the season and securing at least a place in the Champions League. Click to continue reading...

Suddenly everything is as it's supposed to be. Bayern wins again, not beautifully but in an old-fashioned and rational kind of way. 2-1 against Borussia Mönchengladbach which is struggling badly now in order to stay in the Bundesliga. But that's not the topic although the new Bayern coach has a strong connection to his former club.

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That was the target and the leitmotif Jürgen Klinsmann tried to establish in Munich at the beginning of his tenure. This, of course, happened not once. Actually quite the contrary. One example: The defensive line of the 07/08 Bundesliga year has received 21 goals throughout the whole season, an account which the current defense managed to reach after only 14 games.

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