Just to finish this up before the season starts; I'll add blurbs later
Strikers
Youssoufa Moukoko (’04)
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Karim Adeyemi (’02)
Maximilian Beier (’02)
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*Malik Tillman* (’02)
Lukas Nmecha (’98)
Florian Krüger (’99)
Nick Woltemade (’02)
Emrehan Gedikli (’03)
*Fiete Arp* (’00)
Moukoko is the top talent, but Adeyemi & Beier are really exciting too. Nmecha has become a good young forward in the mold of a young Volland. I like Krüger a lot too, not sure just what his ceiling is, but he's interesting even if he never becomes senior NT caliber. Of the tier 3 teenagers, Tillman is the most interesting to me if he didn't miss too much time to injuries; good mobility, good size, and very good creativity.
Attackers
Florian Wirtz (’03)
Jamal Musiala (’03)
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Lazar Samardzic (’02)
Jan Thielmann (’02)
Jonathan Burkardt (’00)
Paul Nebel (’02)
Mateo Klimowicz (’00)
Ansgar Knauf (’02)
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Mika Schroers (’02)
Armindo Sieb (’03)
Turan Calhanoglu (’03)
Lucas Copado (’04)
Organized these groups a little differently, tier 2 v tier 3 is more about readiness/closeness-to-breaking-through, than talent...like I did the others. Wirtz & Musiala are in a tier of their own, but there is senior team potential throughout the other two groups...Samardzic, Nebel, Schroers, & Burkardt, in particular I like.
Midfielder
Sidney Raebiger (’05)
Torben Rhein (’03)
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Jordan Meyer (’02)
Angelo Stiller (’01)
Tom Bischof ('05)
Rocco Reitz (’02)
Can Bozdogan (’01)
Dennis Geiger ('98)
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Tom Krauß (’01)
Anton Stach ('98)
Arne Maier ('99)
Raebiger & Rhein bring a lot of young Kimmich to the table; excellent passers, confident on the ball under pressure, surprisingly combative...seeing how they'll develop will be very interesting. Jordan Meyer has a few Fritz Walter medals and is getting closer to cracking Stuttgart's rotation. Stiller is a really good talent, and should see regular PT after having left Bayern for Hoffenheim. Rocco Reitz got some cameos for Gladbach and looked very interesting, kid certainly has some Mo to the way he can weasel his way up the pitch.
Can Bozdogan is still playing a creative midfield role for Schalke, but I see him as more of an 8 than a 10 when all is said & done. From the more experienced guys, I still like Geiger a lot and Stach really impressed me at the olympics, want to see more of him now that he's at Mainz...though Maier has been disappointing at the senior level so far, still very talented with good size & strength, but he's just too peripheral too often. I have yet to see Bischof myself, but there is speculation about whether he will crack Hoffenheim's rotation this season.