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Old 04-28-2016, 11:00 AM   #1096
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See, that's where you get it wrong ... Dortmund isn't Bayerns direct rival. Nobody is. Bayern is a few steps above everybody else in Germany, and when another team threatens their dominance, they raid them for their best players. In 2002-04 it was Leverkusen and Ballack, Lucio and Ze Roberto, now it's Dortmund and Götze, Lewandowski and Hummels. Rinse and repeat.

The Bundesliga will never be able to compete with England and Spain because they all bow to one club.
Pretty much. It was the same story in England for a while, granted it was more than one club, but top talent was poached from lower end teams.

The thing is though, Dortmund dont have to. If I were in charge of Dortmund and I met new players on their first day I'd be telling them:

"When you're done here at Dortmund you can be sold to any club in the world not named Bayern Munich. Any club in the world. Any club at all. Except that one."
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