What an incredible goal!! What a scoreline!! But what poor defending as well.

I think most people knew it anyway but Klopp says that he expects Lewandowski to join Bayern in 2014/15 season.

They should just buy world class Grafite

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12691/8813313/Bundesliga-Schalke-Julian-Draxler-says-he-could-be-tempted-by-a-future-move-abroad

Interesting quotes, they are true as they're on the Schalke website as well. "I may have turned down a great deal of money, but it's not as if I am only living off bread and water at Schalke."

Really hope he either stays at Schalke or comes to Arsenal. If he went to Chelsea or Man City or United that would be it. I could probably deal with it if he went to Real Madrid, at least it would be another country.

I do like that quote, makes him seem appreciative of what he's got at Schalke, so if a team can offer him success then money shouldn't matter (COME TO ARSENAL ).

If Spurs somehow managed to sign him (sell Bale, Holtby already there?) Game over right there.

Fiorentina in talks to sign Bayern forward Mario Gómez.

That would be an incredible signing for them

Talk to me about Sven. I hear he's the better Bender.

How does he compare to other DMs around Europe? Just wondering if he'd be a good signing for Chelsea if Mikel is sold.

Can he fit in a 4-2-3-1 or is he best as the DM in a midfield 3?

Lars Bender is much better and makes Sven look average IMO.

He works best in a 4-3-3 midfield IMO but sometimes good in a 4-2-3-1, more consistent IMO in a 4-3-3 though.

He's better than Mikel () though so it might be worth actually having him there anyway.

sorry I actually meant Lars in my post

How much would he likely cost?

Not sure, £10-15m maybe? Lars attacks and scores more but they're both good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt6R9w3ac6U

Lars the much better player for me. £13M - £17M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQVGK3rYlI

Salzburg beat Schalke 3-1 in a friendly. Their third goal is worth watching, it's at 5 minutes in the video. Fans debating whether a new goalkeeper is needed in the comments.

Yann Sommer

Draxler scored again though

Only times I can remember seeing Sommer were against United and Tottenham in the CL and Europa, but to be fair he's played brilliantly and impressed me every time I've seen him, especially considering he's not the tallest. Are there any rumours linking him with Schalke?

Draxler

Yeah there were earlier on. Draxler's staying for another year

I'm glad to see we are getting back into this a little bit more.

Astuto Uchida, You formerly Anderi?

Yus

Thought so. Still wondering whether 21 should be on here though...

He should be

Just been reading the Schalke forum on the official website. Would quite like to join but the translations aren't always great

Still some 'outside' problems though that I'm not dealing with on here.

wot

Not going to say, sorry.

to do with wot

Sports Gaming (that I want to get you involved in again).