Many market value losers
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Sports director Sebastian Kehl took on Borussia Dortmund’s professionals. After a disappointing season, 2,6 Bundesliga games have only 35 points, which means eleventh place and makes a new qualification for the Champions League go far away. “None of our players can say that it can go on like this.” Said the 45-year-old in an interview with the “Ruhr Nachrichten”. “If you don’t show the right attitude, you will not have a perspective in this club!”
If there is no response to the team in the end of the season, the whereabouts of many players at the black and yellow are on the test. “In the next few weeks we will see exactly which players Borussia Dortmund can build on in the future. Who will take this situation now? Who is also in the wind and who is now taking responsibility? At that time of the season, BVB last was similarly bad in 2014/15. For comparison: In the last season, after 26 games you had 50 points on the account.
BVB was most frequently scheduled in the Bundesliga market value update. Ten professionals received a minus, among the league’s largest losers included Julian Brandt (-10 million to EUR 25 million), Niklas Süle (-8 million to EUR 7 million) and Waldemar Anton (-6 million to 18 million euros). However, Kehl wanted to “not publicly pillorize” individual players.
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The association could become a pressure of the association. According to the newspaper, the references of the professionals to miss an international business by up to 20 percent, which Kehl indirectly confirmed: “We have therefore designed the contracts significantly more performance -oriented. Sporty failure will also have an impact on the players.”
Last summer, the BVB had invested 80 million euros for newcomers, in winter it was another 9.2 million euros. Nevertheless, you only rank with the fourth most valuable team in the league in midfield. Much too little for the ambitions of the Dortmund, which were still in the final of the Champions League last season. “Our team is compiled for completely different expectations and claims. We have one of the most expensive squads in the Bundesliga, and we don’t do justice.” Kehl therefore confessed: “In the end, we may not be as good as we all thought.” But he also has a little hope. The BVB is “not as bad as the table currently represents”.
