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Old 14-07-2014, 22:54
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What I want to know is when did we decide to start spelling the German player's names with an extra 'e'? Did I miss an assembly or something because I can vividly remember Mueller being Muller, Oezil being Ozil, and Schuerrle being Schurrle. I don't mind either way I'm just a bit perturbed that something like that has changed and no-one has even mentioned it. I feel like I'm in an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers scenario!

Seriously, what is going on? Is it that we (the English speakers) would usually translate the German double-dot above a vowel as just being the vowel but now we have started translating it as vowel plus an 'e'?

Ie'm coenfuesed! (Oho - I look above and see Xela has a double-dot! How do you do that then?)
Umlaute (üöä) are always written ae - ä ; ue - ü ; oe-ö in German if it is technically not possible to use an Umlaut on your computer or in crossword puzzles. So ue, oe, ae is how you correctly write these Names in German if you're unable to use äöü.
Umlaute or the ß (which is ss if you can't use the ß) are on the German keyboard. The z and y are swapped too, because y is a much rarer letter than z in the German language.
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Old 14-07-2014, 23:18
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Ite, Messi Est ...
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Old 14-07-2014, 23:21
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Umlaute (üöä) are always written ae - ä ; ue - ü ; oe-ö in German if it is technically not possible to use an Umlaut on your computer or in crossword puzzles. So ue, oe, ae is how you correctly write these Names in German if you're unable to use äöü.
Umlaute or the ß (which is ss if you can't use the ß) are on the German keyboard. The z and y are swapped too, because y is a much rarer letter than z in the German language.
Thank you. A nice, sincere and informative reply.
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Old 15-07-2014, 00:08
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So you just prove the point that the Bundesliga is a one team league, well done for proving my point. If that makes a great league to you then we have different ideas of what makes a league great.
Maybe it's a good idea to have your best domestic players all play together in one club? Then the national team won't look like the players just met in the dressing room 10 minutes before kick off. That's what Spain did too in order to build their golden generation and look how that worked out. Maybe England should actually take on board one or two things the successful football nations are doing rather than see the continuous epic failures of their football team as a mere coincidence?
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Old 15-07-2014, 02:48
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Maybe it's a good idea to have your best domestic players all play together in one club? Then the national team won't look like the players just met in the dressing room 10 minutes before kick off. That's what Spain did too in order to build their golden generation and look how that worked out. Maybe England should actually take on board one or two things the successful football nations are doing rather than see the continuous epic failures of their football team as a mere coincidence?
Not going to happen....

The FA who run the England set up have as much influence over the PL as I have over whether the sun comes up in the morning.

The larger clubs will never have a significant amount of first team players able to play for England, as its too easy for the large clubs to have books filled with players bought from abroad who are known quantities.
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Old 15-07-2014, 14:28
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Does it matter? England didn't make it through the groups and is anybody depressed/ Nobody at all.

On the other hand Brazil and Argentina are in mourning.
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Old 15-07-2014, 14:32
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Nowt wrong with Messi. Dont speak English but he can learn, bit serious looking but a day at Pit would sort him out
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