Monday, May 10, 2021
Bavaria’s power paralyzes competition
The league surrenders to the boredom master
FC Bayern have just won their ninth championship title in a row. But nobody lingers long, because the tenth is supposed to follow. That’s how you think of the German record champions – that’s how you paralyze the competition. The league groans under the dominance, a starter even blasphemed about it.
For José Mourinho, the Bundesliga is a dead competition. “I refuse to go to a country where the pressure does not exist. I refuse,” the star coach recently told the time-honored Times about the crippling dominance of Bayern Munich in the German upper house. Instead, the AS Roma “special one” joined in Italy, where the championship era of Juventus Turin ended just after nine years.
Bayern, on the other hand, are already dreaming of the tenth title in a row, in 2022 under new coach Julian Nagelsmann. “My greatest wish would be to celebrate the title with our fans on Marienplatz next year,” said President Herbert Hainer. And sports director Hasan Salihamidzic threatened the already impotent competition: “The championship titles are very important to us because they make us hungry for more. They push us to work even harder on ourselves.” Phew
The Munich police even wrote a not very serious “missing person search” at the weekend. “The competition has been missing from the Bundesliga for around 9 years,” said Twitter: “Please send any relevant information to FC Bayern or any police station.”
“Yawning Boredom”
But the very hungry FC does not allow any other engraving on the “salad bowl” – and the league is no longer resisting it. Last year, DFL boss Christian Seifert had publicly worried about the growing problems with foreign marketing, DFB President Fritz Keller also complained about the “yawning boredom” and groaned: “Nobody wants that in football.”
And this time? Nice congratulations that sound like surrender. It is said that there is simply no herb against the Munich long-term winners. “After Julian Nagelsmann was signed, I am a little lacking the imagination that there could be serious competition in relation to the championship,” said Gladbach’s Christoph Kramer of the Funke media group. People have worked too well in Munich for decades, the unequal distribution of TV money distorts competition too much, and all the Champions League millions on the notorious Munich fixed-term deposit account are too heavy. Or?
FC Bayern can’t do without a title
“German football has developed at the top,” claimed Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bild und Sport1 – and did not mean FC Bayern. “That may sound strange because we’re ten points ahead again,” he said, “but I think the developments in teams like Leipzig, Wolfsburg and Frankfurt are positive.” He is also convinced that Dortmund “will get more on the skin”.
Really? BVB will restart under Marco Rose in the summer – and all other clubs from the top seven will then (most likely) be relocated to the most important position in the club. They should take time to grow. Does that also apply to Nagelsmann-Bayern?
For Mourinho it has long been clear that the FCB will break the German record of the Stasi club BFC Dynamo from Berlin, which lined up ten GDR championships from 1979 to 1988 with government aid. Anyone who joins the German record champion as a coach said the Portuguese, whose fate was “written” – Nagelsmann could not defend himself against the title.
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