They could easily bankroll 1 or 2 teams from Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, or another big city to make the league interesting.Instead Germany is stuck being cucked by its 5th largest metro area for eternity when the league has massive potential.Gay bullshit.
>>152562612they tried, but NEIN means NEIN.
>>152562612They have the 50+1 rule. You literally cannot buy a team, just invest. They rather play for 2nd place and be a farmers league than be another money laundering front for Arabs trying to hide cash in Europe
>>1525626849 or no?
>>152562612That's not how things work over there and even if it was, there's absolutely no guarantee those clubs would challenge Buyern even with financial doping, the cream always rises to the top. The main issue with the Bundesliga isn't Buyern, it's Dirtmund. those yellow fuckers realistically have everything it takes to compete with Buyern but they seem unable to stop pissing themselves and everyone is okay with that.
>>152562612Windhorst very recently attempted to do just that with Hertha and failed spectacularly investors need to fuck off
>>152562695Then how did RB Leipzig do it? They literally purchased a random team from the German 99th division and turned them into a personal advertisement team that is sitting 2nd in the Bundesliga right now. Some bored rich people should just do what they did but with actual established clubs like HSV or Frankfurt, without changing the name or anything.
>>152563074they retain the right to reject any application to their club without justification. so after they took over some tiny club they installed their own 20ish members who are also board members and friends of redbull while rejecting anybody else from ever joining their club. technically they are following the rule maybe just not the "spirit" of it.
>>152562612Fuck off we're happy
They are thinking about Germany again.
>>152563074No, they can’t. You‘d have to get the members to vote you in, and that’s not going to happen. And even if: it is prevented by 50+1Leipzig exploited a loophole in the lower amateur regions where the DFB rules don’t rule supremely. You can get it done like that, but you can’t buy a big club. The DFB also managed to change some rules on the regional level to prevent another Leipzig, I thinkThe best you can do with big clubs like Hamburg and Frankfurt is allow for the maximum free space for investors (49%). That would be a monumental challenge already. Or maybe pull a Dortmund where the actual control over the club is another company and you can sell 100% of the rest as stocksOwners know they aren’t welcome. Starting from scratch or with an amateur club is actually hard, especially if you can’t exploit a vacuum like Leipzig
>>152562612You are not entirely wrong. The league’s imbalance is very annoying and will not change without a big reform of … anythingBut fans own the clubs all in all, they will not make room for owners who will run everything without them and could do as they please. There is no guarantee for success. Especially with multi-club-ownership being a thing, meaning you have to fear your club ending up as a delivery boy for either a Premier League club or some Saudi clubFans also fear that most capital would flow to Bayern anywayIt is unfortunately true that the organized fan groups tend to be too „conservative“ and hostile regarding investors. There needs to be a financial reform if some kind of balance is to be restored. The league does have a lot of untapped potential, but most people are somewhat happy all in all even though they despise Bayern winning all the time. After all, the league and the clubs are financially healthy and still (relatively) competitive, and the German attendance and viewership rates are pretty great. Unless everything comes crashing down, most fans will not want to open new large-scale money sources. Most fans primarily want to distribute the TV money differently for more balance, and they want 50+1 to tackle the clubs who got around it in some way (Wolfsburg, Leipzig, Leverkusen, Hoffenheim). If potential owners from Germany were lining up, some fans would probably budge. But foreign owners will never be welcomed by the fans, and the fans are the ones who have to make way for an owner via a vote
I'd rather have soul clubs and shit league, than all foreign clubs where owners can totally ruin them and do what they want and even with that there is no guarantee the league won't still be shit anywayThey need some kind of fix because Bundes is Croatia tier domination of one club, but they are right about ownership imo
>>152562612Why don't you let just one team win all the time like we do in Germany?
>>152564495>they need to fix the problem>NOOO NOT THE ONE THING THAT WOULD FIX THE PROBLEM
>>152564446There is one professional sports team in the USA, the Green Bay Packers, who are fan owned. Similar to Bundesliga fans, I would never see them relinquishing control to an owner because the fan ownership is a point of pride for them. So the Bundesliga is probably going to keep the 50+1 rule for a while.I've read that all the teams in Argentina are fan-owned, yet they still seem to have a strong variety of champions, so perhaps there's something they're doing right. Or they're just lucky.
fuck arabs but german businessmen owning football clubs would be a big improvement on the fans doing so
The problem isn't the absolute amount of money in the league, its the relative amounts. All they'd need to do to fix it is distribute money like US leagues distribute draft picks.
>>152564446just make a rule that clubs can be owned but not by foreigners, redistribute the tv money more fairly and then also institute collective sponsorship deals
>>152562612They actually have sporte communism for some reason. Ever club has to have a certain % of fan ownership.
