this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
0 points (50.0% liked)
Football / Soccer / Calcio / Futebol / Fußball
142 readers
4 users here now
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That almost started after the Atlético game. People will bring up again the Bild article about how his Dortmund teammates hated him.
Bellingham's skills & ambitions just outgrew our squad at a pace we kind of could predict but didn't want to.
I don't think he was a real dickhead tbh.
He just exposed the ceiling of your club
It sounds kind of rude but it's the truth and realising the ceiling is the first step to push beyond it.
I'm not entirely sure if the club wants to realise this too though, the last transfer window was far from convincing.
Feels more like settling to me but it can be kind of disheartening when it happens every other season.
Like how do you make the Ruhrpott attractive to star players when they dont 100% identify with the mentality and the people there knowing that you can pay well but you cant pay Man City/Real Madrid well, knowing you're able to compete for most titles but chances of winning are a different story?
On top of that individual ambitions will always be better realised at the behemoth clubs like chance for ballon d'or, individual sponsoring and contracts etc
Then there is the lifestyle and glamour factor too which you also cant ignore, especially when there is partners or family involved.
Tbh I always saw your club BVB like NXT in WWE. In WWE NXT is a developmental brand where wrestlers go to develop before moving on to Raw or Smackdown. Sometimes the brand does really well that it is the highlight of WWE but it is usually always seen as a place where people develop to go for bigger things.
BVB attracts so many good young prospects that end up having big careers in football but most of them never stay at BVB and instead use it to springboard for a much bigger club. I think if BVB wants to raise the ceiling they need to make it attractive for players to stay and not see it as a springboard but instead a club they can win titles in.
Yeah it’s quite a difficult situation for Dortmund. Winning last year or anything in general and regularly would help tremendously. The Ruhr Region is a big push factor for players as well. Paying higher wages is untenable and could mean financial suicide so I understand Watzke and co. A real golden generation of homegrown talent seems like the most probable push for Dortmund imo
Not really. If players like Bellingham and Haaland stayed, BVB could try to make a decent team around them. They could win the Bundesliga and maybe reach the latter stages of CL. The problem is that the club knows top players will leave so they can’t ever make a team around someone because it would be a financial mistake.
But they didn’t stay which is proving my point