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Originally Posted by Locke
The thing is...The Bundesliga is like my 'guilty pleasure' league. I started watching Bayern because thats all we could get on TV over here, but there isnt a Bundesliga team that I 'hate' (Maybe Red Bull) so I can watch most matches essentially as a neutral.
But I really respect Dortmund, as a club. I really like their players, the way they're run, I like it when a player I like goes to Dortmund, I know they're supposed to be Bayern's bitter rivals but I've never really seen it that way.
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yeah, they've never been. It's just that they've been the only team in the last 10-15 years that has been able to challenge them here or there, and the media has obviously tried to create a Clasico style rivalry. But it's just not there and the teams operate in completely different worlds.
The thing that irks me about Dortmund is that they could even be much better if they didn't regularly burn money on bang average Bundesliga players. It's a regular occurence that Dortmund fans immediately hate a transfer because they - correctly - predict that those players are not good enough, yet their bosses keep going back to the well every year. It's enough to be the number 2/3 in Germany because they sometimes hit the jackpot with a talented young player (Sancho, Haaland, Bellingham) and because there's little competition outside of Leipzig, but they could definitely be a lot better.
Look out for Leverkusen though, Xabi Alonso has done a really good job and they are clearly second best this season. Stuttgart have also been excellent, but that isn't sustainable. Dortmund and Leipzig have been underwhelming.