Most liked posts in thread: Kai Brunker

In a strange way I think Kai will always be a sort of City legend. I would have loved him to have scored just one league goal

 

He has scored the winner for Saarbrucken against Borussia Monchengladbach in the Cup. Their giant killing continues.
Pleased for him. I loved his enthusiasm if nothing else.
I spoke to him at the player of the year awards and he is a lovely lad.

 

The panzer scores the third goal in a 3-0 win for FC Madgeburg who gain promotion to Bundesliga 2. Chuffed to bits for the big lad. Now be playing one level below the German top division.

 

Hopefully puts to bed the pub player jibes i've seen from some. Really made lad, made up for him. \hope we see the panzer get to the fianl.

 

Talks about current City season and Andy Cook fandom, which is why I didn't post on Where Are They Now thread. Though feel free to move if necessary. Link to full article at end.

"... [The] Saarbrücken ... squad: a mixture of youngsters who never quite made it at the top level and experienced journeymen such as the centre-forward Brünker, who in England is perhaps best known for a one-year spell at Bradford City that can charitably be described as mixed.

“It was a really intense time,” Brünker says of a spell that produced 31 appearances and a single goal, against Oldham in the Checkatrade Trophy. “In a football sense, I wasn’t the scoring machine that Bradford hoped I would be. But I had a really nice time and I had this feeling of connection to the Bradford fans. I just wanted to give 100% for them.”

He still watches all their games and after the tape is turned off spends several minutes singing the praises of Andy Cook, who he hopes can fire them to League Two promotion this season."

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/01/giant-killers-saarbrucken-ready-for-game-of-the-century-in-german-cup?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

I do wish he could have got just one league goal us, just to see his reaction. Could never fault his enthusiasm

 

decent sized crowd too

 

Really, really pleased for him. Loved his attitude when he was with us.

 

All the best to Kai Bruenker tonight. He plays in De Pokal semi final.

 

If they win are we having Bantamtalk trip to the final? I've heard of this company called Kadima......

 

He can close a couple of times. I think in a better team he might have scored a handful

 

I can hardly fathom that the same hopeless footballer (but nice guy) we watched epically fail at City is now playing against one of the best teams in the world and part of the side beating them.

Astonishing.

 

Really?

He is comfortably the worst "professional" footballer I've ever seen and I doubt he'd even score in a singles night at the pile bar.

 

I liked Kai , always tried more than some better players at the time. I agree not the best but Chib Chilaka would win my award for the worst Professional player in recent times.

 

I’ll always remember Tim Thornton tweeting something to the effect of:

1. Chib Chilaka comes off the bench to replace James Hanson.

2. Chib Chilaka kicks the ball into his own face

 

Just had a look and there's some HUGE names in that division. Not sure what's gone on but there's Kaiserslautern, Hansa Rostock, 1860 Munchen, Duisberg and Dynamo Dresden.

All familiar names as I was growing up.

 

Growing up I always wanted a Dukhla Prague away kit for Christmas, so they were my second team.

 

This is incredible.

He literally didn't even resemble a footballer when he was with us, now he's banging them in against Bundesliga sides.