Probably out for the season, just when he won the starter spot for Germany after 11 years. Only positive, no big tournament awaits at the end of the year and he's playing for a trash club that won't make an impact in the Champions League anyways.
I beleive it's because in Germany, teams are required to be 51% owned by the public and Red Bull kind of found a loophole when they took over 5th tier SSV Markransadt...same with Bayer Leverkusen (who's owned by the Bayer company). This might be an overly simplistic explanation and probably somewhat incorrect. @Raz could speak to it better than I can.
Barca manhandling Bayern in the UCL today. Man are they going to be good for a long run if they can keep everyone together. Such a young and extraordinarily talented team.
They're the cancer of so-called modern football. It goes way deeper than that. Started when they took over Austria Salzburg 20 years ago and changed the team name, colors and logo overnight, lied to the loyal fanbase about still having influence on the club's direction and since then have broken transfer rules pretty much every given day. Then they wanted a Bundesliga team and knocked doors in Düsseldorf and St. Pauli (extra lol), both refused emphatically, so they had to buy the licence from the 5th division club and spend money like a Champions League contender to relegate up. They have no fans, no integrity, no TV ratings and use the sport as an advertising platform to perform their shitty unhealthy slurry. Zero love for the game, only for the cash. The money they make basically out of re-selling young talented players from abroad won't remain in the football business, as it flows directly to the corporate center which uses some of it to finance for example a TV channel that broadcasts racism, conspiracy theories and Putin propaganda, just as founder Mateschitz (roast in hell, *******) wished. -- And all that is just the tip of the iceberg, I could go on and rant for hours. If that is normal capitalism, I'll have a Karl Marx tattoo by tomorrow.
I already have a team. But yes, I am not a purist like @Raz - football is also a business, I just accept that.
