I never considered Dortmund poor, but when you have Melnyk type of owner, bad things will always happen including Watzke being a cheapass. That's why I never considered losing Lew on a free was good when you lot did, especially when you have cheap owners such as Arsenal do with Kroenke. With these type of owners you want to maximize your profits as much as possible since they won't ever spend extra money. Thankfully for Arsenal, we were able to replace Sanchez with an above-average player, but with his own demons. BVB now has all the money in the world from the Dembele deal so they can absolutely get back to where they were five years ago, but that won't stop Bayern from poaching players though. They're still the main feeder club for Munich and that won't change. And even though they spent 100 million pounds last summer, a lot good shrewd deals like Goretzka on a free, Tolisso for 40 million, Sule for 18, Wanger for 12, and James on a loan. Worst one was Coman for 20 million, but he's having a pretty damn good season as well. This doesn't make any difference though, Bayern is still grabbing majority of the best players from BuLi teams. This time they went after Hoffenheim and Schalke instead of BVB. Next season it could very well be Leverkusen and BVB.
I don't agree with everything, but good stuff though.
Good for Monaco, but this City team is completely different to the ones in the past. This team is probably better than Kompany's squad when he was in his prime.
