and Bayern are 1-0 up.
Borrusia Bottlers.
time to watch chelsea, this game is done.
3-0
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dortmund are getting their arse kicked.
I genuinely think they’re cursed. How else can you explain a typically reliable keeper making two insane mistakes?
4-0
Dortmund Pen 4-1
Dortmund are a pathetic club. They will never win the league again.
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4-2 was an absolutely kind result btw. Bayern fucked up about 7-9 counter attacks. This was an arse kicking.
Usually I defend their approach to squad building given Bayern have so much more money but that performance was inexcusable.
They have the pedigree of being a famous club. They have a good fanbase and infrastructure. They need to adjust part of the business approach.
Tphey don’t need a reveloution. They need an honest assessment and adjust accordingly.
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The error didn’t help but they were shook the crowd ate them up.
They just need to stop seeing themselves as a selling club (and by consequence the players seeing them as a stepping stone) and everything else will fall into place.
They are a club of rich history and football pedigree and have convinced themselves they’re not…for some reason.
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For some reason? It’s not self delusion the same way Arsene lied to us about not being able to spend. Bayern outstrip them in terms of money and it’s not even close.
https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/1445993881095507968?s=46&t=hPiT5TUKZc4-Fa8ge6uBLw
Literally every German club except Bayern is going to be a selling club because of the 50+1 rule.
Wanted a draw so union berlin were still in with a shout
Bayern have big spenders going back to the 2000’s signing the likes of Roy Makaay, Lucio and Ze Roberto, Pizarro and Ballack.
Bayern financially flexing has been the state of affairs since I’ve been breastfeeding. While they’ve won a lot they’ve never had a stranglehold on the league like now. Something up with the operation of the competition.
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I’m not particularly bothered by their business model or whatever, it’s just the degree to which they are such perennial bottlers.
This was their best chance in years to win the Bundesliga and Bayern have had a mediocre season by their standards so this was their chance to grab it by the horns, especially against their arch rivals.
That level of bottling mentality is just unforgivable.
It’s not a mystery though. Bayern go deep in the CL every year that money allows them to maintain their dominance along with the gravitational pull they have over domestic players.
It’s too simple for people to say that other teams should just spend. They do spend. Dortmund has had record sales and reinvestment. It’s up for debate whether they reinvested well but they’ve spent money.
What they can’t necessarily do is chase Bayern down by spending more.
I was listening to the Yellow Wall podcast to take the temperature of how their fans felt pre Bayern and one of the guys on there said he’d rather Bayern win every league from now until forever than Leipzig (and other teams) winning it once because it would make a mockery of 50+1. And that’s the problem with German football. They’ve basically created this system with 50+1 which keeps out state owned clubs but entrenches Bayern at the top.
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So what’s the aim here then. Best of the rest. CL group stage money and just post videos of the fans waving yellow flags.
Know your place football killed us for a decade.
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I mean it’s anecdotal evidence based on one podcast but it seems like the attachment to 50+1 is so strong and that really is the impediment to a team truly challenging Bayern over a sustained period.
On the one hand it’s admirable that they have these rules to prevent something like a City or Newcastle takeover. But yeah, even looking back at the start of the 2000s Bayern was good but you had other teams challenging and winning the league.
Serie A went through this while Juventus was steamrolling the league. France has gone through it twice, once with Lyon and now with PSG.
Scotland also went through it.
It’s possible that in another five years England might be the only competitive first division in Europe.