Köln — Best pictures!

While all manners of German specialists continue to criticize FC Koln’s international Lukas Podolski and Bayern Munich’s Miroslav Klose for their lack of convincing football and form at the moment, a new star seems to have emerged from the shadows in

The legendary Gert Muller recently came out swinging hard against today’s German strikers, remarking that they were not worth even the remotest comparison to his contemporaries. The FTBL ratings of German strikers, indeed, would appear to confirm these

FC Koln’s Germany international Lukas Podolski (pictured) was pushed to the edge of the FTBL Top 23 of the German Bundesliga after his side were unable to extract anything more than a toothless draw against Eintracht Frankfurt in front of the home crowd.

The World Cup 2010 qualifier between Germany and Azerbaijan will have a more interesting subtext as the two leading German strikers, Mario Gomez of Bayern Munich and FC Koln’s Lukas Podolski, battle it out for the top spot in the FTBL ranking of German

Stuttgart striker and Germany international Mario Gomes (pictured) has completed the season as the best German forward with an overall FTBL rating 175.88 points. His reported transfer to Bayern Munich will surely add power to the Bavarians’ attack, as