Big fish in a small pond typically cannibalizes the other fishes; that's why Dortmund will never go back to it's 90's glory days. FC Hollywood did it with Leverkussen who were ransacked of Ballack, Ze Roberto and Lucio. Now they are starting to do it with their new rival Dortmund. I fully expect Lewandosky and Hummels to follow suit like starstruck serfs joining German football royalty when they are actually the holding champions. Yup, big fish in a very small pond - small fry tried to make it big but the big fish ate it. Tough luck.
It will soon be. Dortmund's current roster is going to be dismantled by Bayern. They even had the chupza and arrogance to leak the Gotze transfer right before aDortmund's most important for nealy 18 years. That refreshing Dortmund side will soon be gone; almost everyone that actually followed German football knew that it would always come down to when and not if the Dortmund core will be captured by Bayern - it was just fate. Bayern meanwhile will continue to cannibalize its rivals to oblivion and grow into a leviathan, a very big fish in a small pond.
Is Dortmund still interested in Son Heung Min? He should just stay at HSV for a couple years or leave for another league, than join Dortmund who will be a shell of its former self.
Bayern didn't leak it, somebody involved spilled the beans, blaming the club itself is idiotic. Your posts tell me you really dislike Bayern for whatever reasons, try being a bit less biased.
The post was not about criticising FC Hollywood as much as it was an elegy for any semblance of competition in the bundesliga. Enjoy your X numbers of title in a row!
Champions League is a small pond, someone has to stop Bayern's evil doing, unfair to poor teams like Barca.
Signing Götze was a classic Bayern move of weakening the Bundesliga competition, even though they have no need for him. BVB have also made a mistake with that relatively small release clause.
This! Bayern has been doing it for years now. But I guess Bayern fans are blinded by their own bias. Bundesliga really runs the risk of turning into a glorified Scottish League if Bayern continues cannibalizing its rivals through sheer financial power.
Why so angry? Aren't you happy that you will walk your domestic league for the next five years? If you were not so occupied with being an ass you maybe could have understood that the small pond comment was not a shot at the pedigree of Bayern but rather an observation about the simple fact that after this coming summer transfer window draws to a close, Bayern will no longer have any credible rival in the Bundesliga for the forseeable future - Miami Heat on roids without the semblance of financial fairness of the NBA. You are offended about "big fish in a small pond"? What about a whale in a glass of water?
It's the largest football association in the world, the league in Europe with the highest attendance rates, biggest market. The "small pond" comment is simply idiotic.
Suarez gets 10 game ban. "Unless he wins an appeal, that rules him out for the rest of the season. Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre says Suarez and the club were "shocked and disappointed" at the punishment." Shocked? Because it wasn't more? He's a repeat offender.
The Premier league and Spanish La Liga easily blow the Bundesliga out of the water. But La Liga and Bundesliga are really in the same boat as they are all threatening to become a boring one-team or two-team league where all the other teams just pay their dues to a juggernaut. Ultimately, this will lead to their demise. In a competitive market, you just don't bite the hand that feeds which is fans interest which itself depends on a semblance of competitivity. In this light, the current Dortmund team was the best thing that happened to the Bundesliga for a long time as they signalled a possible era where other teams could follow its lead and challenge FC Hollywood. This was finally not to be. Bayern is back in the business of sabotaging his biggest rivals. You may not like it, but a big fish in a small pond is what the Bundesliga is going to be. Just deal with it.
