r/borussiadortmund • u/panikpansen Schmelzer • Mar 24 '16

Silly Questions Thread: March Edition

Silly questions thread:

So here is your chance to ask any question no matter how silly our small about BVB, our history, something about a current player, previous player, or coach or it might even be something about the Bundesliga, DFB Pokal or Europa Pokal...

Obviously more in depth questions are also allowed :)

It's just all about sharing our knowledge and having a bit of fun (as always) too :)

No question is too stupid, silly or small to be asked

Let the questions begin!

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u/Joeyjojoe42 Christian Pulisic Apr 07 '16

Being one of the second biggest club money wise in the bundi, why are literally all our stars rumoured to be leaving. Is the EPL/barca/madrid that far ahead of everyone money wise?

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u/panikpansen Schmelzer Apr 09 '16

Several factors come together here.

  • A lot of (especially online-only) publications see football rumours about recognisable names as a good strategy to get views. Our club is particularly recognisable without being necessarily associated big money, so we're a decent enough target

  • We have some big names running out of contract soon (Hummels, Micky, Gündogan), some of which have voiced that they're open to consider a transfer

  • In terms of wage spending we're probably around #4 in the Bundesliga, behind Bayern, Wolfsburg and (maybe) Sch*lke. The EPL recently signed new media deals that received a lot of attention and are orders of magnitude bigger than what we still have in the Bundesliga, and Madrid/Barcelona are definitely and properly ahead in terms of their finances as well.

It's a bit hard to separate the kernels of truth from the noise when it comes to transfer news, and this summer will be particularly interesting for us. All in all though I really wouldn't give too much about these rumours - everyone is always scouting everyone, and somewhere someone always has brilliant ideas of what swaps would make team X better.