Bayern loaned 2 players within the bundesliga (Nübel to Stuttgart & Stanisic to Leverkusen) just for both to finish above them

the funniest thing about this: given they came 3rd, bayern will not play in the german supercup at the beginning of next season, which means again no title for harry kane

Keep in mind, they sold 3 first team players in the summer: Mavropanos, Sosa, Endo...

Brest, Girona, Leverkusen, Stuttgart What a time to be alive

Harry Kane came 3rd in a two horse title race just like in 2016. And Stuttgart's story looks really similar to the story of another team from the PL in 2016. Leicester City

Its not just the league position thats impressive, its also the way they play. A very ball dominant attacking football, nothing you would expect from a team that is supposed to fight against relegation. In addition to that, are the 3 games against Leverkusen. 1-1 at home, lost 3-2 in Leverkusen in the 90 minute and draw 2-2 in Leverkusen with the equalizer in the 90+6 minute. It was a great year as a Stuttgart Fan.

There are way more players worth to mention. E.g. Mittelstädt, bought from Hertha for 500k€ is now the leftwing defender for Germany at the EC in Summer, he scored vs. Netherlands after he made a mistake and 0-1 down, 18m shot BOOM Vööööööliiiiig losgelöst. Ito came from 2nd division in Japan a few years ago. Anton came from Hannover 96, 2nd Bundesliga. The stories are endless. A club that played relegation last year, now has the 2nd most players for Germany in the European championship IN Germany. I am a Stuttgart Fan for almost 30 years and I have no word that can fully describe whatever I've witnessed this year. I will probably never find a word for that till my last days. FORZA VfB! 🤍❤

Remember Union Saint-Gilloise's unlikely Belgian title charge two years ago right after getting promoted? Deniz Undav was instrumental to that team. I'm glad to see him succeed once more after his stint at Brighton didn't work out.

Fun Fact: Sebastian Hoeneß is actually the nephew of Uli Hoeneß who was President of Bayern Munich from 2009 to 2014, before he went to prison for tax evasion. Uli Hoeneß is the sole reason Bayern where able to play at such a high level for the last 15 years because of the winning culture that he established at the club. From 2016 to 2019 he was again President and since then he has been honorary president of Bayern Munich. Greetings from Germany

sebastian hoeneß got an extension until 2027. as a football fan and not someone who wants to see the same 5 teams win everything, i am very happy to hear that

a few more Video Ideas involving German Football: - Heidenheim going to the Conference League Playoffs if Leverkusen wins the DfB Pokal (this will definetly happen) - 2nd Bundesliga being filled up to the brim with big clubs and probably will have bigger attendances than the Bundesliga next season (Schalke, Hamburg, Hannover, Hertha Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Köln, Nürnberg, ...) - (more niche) Ulm and Münster both getting promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga after just getting promoted to the 3rd League last/this season

Petition to Z to make video about Heidenheim (who he covered on main channel how they rose from amateur level to Bundesliga) in first season in Bundesliga have chance to play confrence league😮

nanananana Guirassy! Serhou Guirassy!

besides dortmund (who didnt loose vs leverkusen) they were the only team to be competitive against leverkusen in all matches. in fact, they dominated them in the dfb quarter finals first half with 2,5 expected goals alone - leverkusen got thrashed in that half. also stuttgart sadly bottled a 2-0 lead vs them. they are crazy

You also have to talk about the other players. Mittelstädt for example came from a 2nd Division Bundesliga club to Stuttgart at the beginning of the season and started as a bench player at first. But Hoeneß made an absolute weapon out of him so that he is a solid part of the team now. And he even got nominated as one of the best left backs for the European Championship….. Absolutely incredible what this man did

A Mention of the sale of arguibly the best player at Stuttgart namely Wataru Endo before the Season and of Maximilian Mittelstädt who was signed for just 500.000€ in the summer and who is now going to the Euros for Germany as the starting leftback would have been nice aswell.😁

Deniz Undav is my irrational pantomime villain of a footballer.

I do wish we could actually sell Guirassy for 10x the price we bought him at, but he has a release clause at about 18.5m. It's a real FM moment for sure...

The season gets more unbelievable if you remember that we lost three of our best players this year with Endo to Liverpool Mavropanos to Wets Ham and Sosa to Ajax

Beautiful to see Stuttgart back at the top after their 07 title

I cannot express how much this season, as a Stuttgart fan feels as good as possible without winning the league. From the beginning of the season, I could tell we would be a good side, but I felt we had no real chance to win the league. Obviously in this season, we didn't, but to have a title winning point total shows how much better a side we were than I could have possibly hoped or dreamed. Amazing season, UCL next year and it's so deserved. As a side, it's funny in a macabre way how amazing second feels for me aa a Stuttgart fan, and how depressing it feels as a (much bigger) Arsenal fan. Football is quite a sport

Glad you did this video. Stuttgart aren't getting enough of the spotlight this season. They've been playing brilliantly! Obviously, Leverkusen has been an incredible story, but Stuttgart has also been very impressive too.

STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL!

You, talking like that about MY team.. wow. Never had 9:23 min long goosebumps 😍

Nübel extended his contract with Bayern but keeps playing for Stuttgart on loan.

If Leverkusen and Stuttgart manage to hold on to their key players, the German teams are gonna be a big threat in next seasons Champions League

Hard cut when naming a player other than Kante from that Leiceister Team 😂😂 Zealand sure struggled there

You could see at the end of last season how goot they can be... the team was intact and always played a very intense football. That they are for real my BVB get to witness 1st Hand because they were smashing us in the 1st leg and a few weeks later in the DFB Pokal... they were on a complete other level as my BVB. The Games with Leverkusen were by far the most entertaining and best of the whole season. As for Nübel: He renewed his contract with Bayern, but get loaned again to Stuttgart for at least next season.

two impressive thing's in a single season? Not just Bayer Leverkusen going Undefeated in the Bundesliga, and a realistic chance at the Perfect Treble, but also Stuttgart just coming back from the dead? What the hell is going on in the Bundesliga?!

When Hoeneß came the squadvalue was ~120 million, he then lost his three best players in summer 23 and still increased the value to 280 million by feb/march 2024, probably increasing to 300million+ when the next marketupdate gets released. Insane how he made every player better, thats how you know how good of a coach he is.

Z doing some real PR work for the Bundesliga to the English speaking world and I am all for it. Favorite league to watch after the Prem.

Stuttgart could've won 3 times against Leverkusen this season, they were extremly unlucky in those matches.

My team finally back to glory days 🥲⚪️🔴

Same with Maxi Mittelstädt. As a Hertha Fan I am really glad he finally found his form, but sad that we didn't give him a chance with us. We sold him to Stuttgart for 500k and people said we scammed them. Now he is a starting XI in the Germany squad in the Euros.

This COMPLETELY escaped my notice somehow. What a story!

Credits to De Zerbi not only for loaning out Undav but also for teaching his tactical approach to Hoeneß which was the foundation for a season this successful…

all 3 games vs bayer leverkusen were incredibly close, especially in the dfb pokal.

the bundesliga this season was absolutely incredible, normally its an exciting league with a boring conclusion but germany really hit it home this year, glad to see such a strong showing from the "farmers league"

I am a Stuttgart fan, from Stuttgart. The thing is, while this is a miracle, and no one thought we'd finish where we actually did, we underperformed a lot in the 2 seasons from 2021-2023. If we'd known how to score goals, then we wouldn't have been in the relegation fight or even in the playoffs last year. We were like 11th in expected points in 21/22 and in 22/23. That's where Sebastian Hoeneß has improved us drastically. We are finally playing - no joke - on our level. We are not overperforming in the table, we are right where we are supposed to be this season. And we are doing that with a great style of football, posession based, not like Union Berlin last year who won a lot of lucky games. The weird thing is, VfB is statistically one of the top 5 clubs in Germany, so us playing in europe is kind of in the DNA of the club. We played in europe almost every year from the 1970s onwards, until the 2010s happened, where we overspent our built up CL money and the club in general was mismanaged on all fronts (imagine it like Newcastle under Mike Ashley) and we even got relegated after over 40 consecutive years in the Bundesliga. So yes, this is a miracle, but for us fans and people in the city it feels more like a return to where we once were and where we feel like we actually belong

Brest also finished third in the French league and will be in the Champions League next year. That is also impressive

Also Heidenheim could qualify for the conference league in the first year

Stuttgart have more points this season than their past two seasons combined.

8:10 they loaned out nübel again.

If Leverkusen go again next season and finish in the top 3, that’ll almost be a better achievement than winning the league. The example I think of is Leicester in 15th and sacking Claudio after they won the league. Any league as defending champs is tough being the one to beat and good luck to them. It’ll also show Alonso as a serious manager and make him a better candidate for the top jobs.

Leverkusen is only 2 matches away from being the only team on the entire football history to have an invincible season in all competitions

Zealand, about Guirassy.... yea, they can't sell him for ten times more, he has a very low release clause in his contract (which is under 20 mln) soo yeaa

German lesson for Zealand: The 'oe' in Hoeneß is pronounced similar to the 'u' in urgent.

Booooondissleeegah. Dang I love the way he says that lol

You forgot Woo Yeong Jong and Silas (greatest solo goal this season!!) who both gifted us two goals each in the last two games of the season, Waldemar Anton who defended like a king and Maxi Mittelstädt who is the most attacking Defender I have seen in a while (and actually being good at it). Also you forgot to mention the outstanding 3-1 game between VFB and Bayern :D

3:00 he was a prospect but decided to stay in Stuttgart, which is especially funny since he is the nephew of Uli Hoeneß, arguably THE biggest name in Bayern Munich history

I had Deniz Undav in a fifa career mode and because of that I’ll always root for him

You should look into Mainz and the return from the dead. They were down and out, 13 games left, 9 points up and then...Bo Henriksen happened. It's an AMAZING story of a manager turning a club around with his personality, injecting hope and will into everyone. The Bundesliga has so many good stories this year.

Guirassy has a 20Mil release clause

The loan of Nübel was extended for 2 more years. And I want to add another Name. Mittelstädt. He came from Hertha bsc for 500k and has good chances to be in the starting squad for germany this summer

6:00 craziest thing imo: The apparently best teams in germany, and neither of them played in the Champions League this season. And we nearly got an all-german finale.

VfB was not only in the relegation battle last year, but won the last match the year before in last-minute fashion to avoid relegation. It doesn't even feel real still, having gone theough that as a fan to this season just having been up after up after up.

The Harry Kane curse!

Bayern won the league 11 years in a row. That’s just amazingly strong. We should all respect the achievements of BAYERN

Everything Stuttgart has done in 23/24 was nothing short of amazing.... Given they were among the highest wage bills in 22/23 they really really underperformed before they saved themselves... Under Hoenneß

Even further in the shadows is Heidenheim qualifying for Europe in their first ever season in the Bundesliga

Nübel made a new contract with bayern till 2028 i think, but will be loaned to vfb for the next 2 seasons. Thats what I heard

i think it would have won the league not only last year but quite a few seasons the last few years and honeß already said a few times he will not go to bayern and stay at stuttgart. Also guirassy has a release clause around 25 mil this summer...

Upsets to qualify for the UCL next season: 1) Aston Villa getting 4th in the PL 2) Girona getting 3rd in La Liga 3) Stuttgart getting 2nd in the Bundesliga 4) Bologna getting top 5 and potentially up to 3rd in the Serie A 5) Brest getting 3rd in Ligue 1 6) Sturm Graz winning the Austrian Bundesliga Upsets to make the UCL qualifiers next season: 1) Twente finishing 3rd in the Eredivisie, their first UCL qualifying campaign since 2011/12, after being relegated in 2017/18, and a guaranteed Europa League group stage spot at least, their first since 2012/13. 2) Either Jagiellonia Bialystok or Slask Wroclaw will win the Ekstraklasa (2 teams who finished immediately above the relegation zone last season) 3) Petrocub Hincesti winning the Moldovan Super Liga (stopping Sheriff from winning their 22nd title in the last 25 seasons)

been waiting all year for you to talk about them and you didn't even mention how many of their players now made the german national team

No views in 15 seconds, YES ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT

The only team which had grabbed Leverkusen seriously by the balls.

I mean Stuttgart are a big team, they've just been an absolute abomination for the last decade.

Leverkusen finished the league unbeaten and stuttgart is second. if you told me that last year, i would have died of laughter. This season of the bundesliga was absurd and i all here for that.

Guirassay has 18.5 million release clause so he surely is going...

Frog 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

I called for Stuttgart to be in the top six battling it out with Frankfurt for 5 and 6. They‘ve been great ever since Hoeneß had taken over. But in no way I thought they‘d be THIS good. It’s not they somehow ended up second, no, they are playing exciting, excellent football. My team, Frankfurt eked in sixth with more or less boring/ shite football. Currently I would rank Leverkusen, Stuttgart and Bayern in the same category and Dortmund and Leipzig a bit behind. All other teams are almost a league away. Partly also because our 2nd league got very strong in the last years.

I would love to see Zealand making a video talking about FC St. Pauli either here or on the main channel.

As a Bayern fan, I'm not even mad. I like that there are multiple threats in the Bundesliga now. Good rivalries make the game more exciting. I just wish my team remembers how to play again because if it's not the UCL, we seem to forget

What's going on with Nobel is already known for a few weeks. Bayern extended his contract and loans him to Stuttgart for another year.

Lifelong Stuttgart supporter here. This season was unbelievable. Don't want to sound ungrateful, but Leverkusen annoys me for that reason. Without them we would at least have won the cup. But overall this is the best VfB aquad I have ever seen. Even the 2007 Bundesliga winner squad didn't play that well. It's insane. I hope they can somehow keep the momentum high, but as someone supporting this club for more than 20 years now I know it too well that VfB is the perfect example for a club that manages to have very short, very high peaks, but then falls apart. But I just hope for the best.

The goal difference in the Bundesliga is crazy. 10 teams have a negative goal difference and place 7 has 0 and place 6 has just 1.

Let's just hope they don't pull a Union Berlin and struggle to stay out of the relegation zone next season. In case anyone forgot.

I want to see of follow up of the heidenheim video as they might be playing UECL next season if Bayer don’t bottle it

Fun fact: Every team placing ahead of Bayern in the Bundesliga this season has a loanee from Bayern

EUROOOPAPOKAL, ooh ooh ooh ooh. EUROOOPAPOKAL, ooh ooh ooh ooh. Nach all der Scheiße, geht's auf die Reise, STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL!

Nice

Please make a video about Lorients almost miracle, where they won 5-0 against Clermont to try to survive but got relegated on goals conceded

So rewarding to see your team succeed after watching them being ass for years

Finally, the german league is interesting

don't forget about Ipswich who got promoted back-to-back into the prem

Stuttgart did a Leicester and nobody noticed 😢

Hoeneß just extended his contract and will stay at stuttgart

And for the last few years they had to sell constantly their best players each year to stay financially healthy. Thats even crazier. Its not like they spent big money or something.

Please make a update video on the Dutch 2nd division 2nd place race (direct promotion) & playoffs

7:10 I just graduated high school, last time Bayern didn’t win the league I was in 1st grade

Hey Z speaking about Bundesliga have you heard the weird story of the now leaving, after almost 30 years, Freiburg Coach Christian Streich could be a Story for you to ove

Bundesliga was the best league in the world this season

I didn't even realize Bayern finished third lol

We should've kept Undav at Brighton.

Bayer Leverkusen, Stuttgart and Villa in the champions league is gonna funny

harry kane the curse

Zealand do a video about the Greek superleague ! Amazing championship with 4 contenders

The fact that Stuttgart nie have more German national players then Bayern is crazy. Guirassy salad has a leave clause for 20mio I think. BVB wants him

Have you been running Z? 👀

Bayern munich next season going to be scary xd Going for revenge