The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[pastro243]

Ka-pi96 said:

pastro243 said:

That's true, but even when dominating, it isn't as easy as people make it seem. Leipzig has been close this time,and Dortmund have been good oposition in the past. 

What I mean is that Bundesliga isn't a weak league with just one team. German teams are very good but they seem "bad" when compared to this giant. This happens also with la Liga and Barca and Real, many think smaller teams are crap, but they actually have great results in European competitions (See Sevilla or Atlético)

But that also leads to one of the problems with German, Italian and to a lesser extent Spanish football. When another team properly challenges them as Dortmund did a few years back, Bayern just try and buy all their best players, Lewandowski and Gotze for instance. The same often happens in Spain with Barca/Real buying all the best players from other teams in the leauge. Atletico at least have been able to resist that though. That isn't as prevalent in countries like England, it still happens like Kante going from Leicester to Chelsea, but it is much rarer among the big teams. Similar moves between the top English teams or between Real and Barca are much rarer.

Just wish another German team had the money and reputation for players to want to stay there rather than being happy to leave the moment Bayern came calling

Agree

(I wouldn't add Serie A there though. Some of their big teams haven't been good lately but Milan, Inter and Roma to a lesser extent have to potential to rise back to their historical level. It's far from a one team league historically)