German football only allows you to spend what you earn
PSG did not earn the 400M they spent on Mbappe rather a rich Sheikh gave them his wallet, Same with Chelsea and City.
Bayern does not have that luxury. they make a profit of 500M a yr, They cannot spend 400M on fees for 2 players and still pay salaries
We have spent on Douglas Costa, Renato, Gotze who didn't pan out as expected and we don't have any rich owner to write off our bad transfers like the teams you compare us to
Hindsight is always 20/20. For City to get Sane and KdB they wasted a lot of money on the Mangalas, Robinho Mendy Mahrez? who have not delivered
Who are these CBs we don't need? Currently, Boateng Hummels are old and poor. They need to be replaced and we have Sule bought Pavard and chasing Hernandez all under 24 and can serve us for another 6yrs
It’s not hindsight if you said the exact same thing years ago.
And I don’t care about City‘s Transfer policy, I‘m talking about ours.
And Hummels is one. Nobody needed him here. Nobody needed Benatia. Nobody needs Süle. What we would have needed, was a left footed centre back like Laporte, who I actually preferred to Hummels. It’s been idiotic to buy Hummels, who is the same age as Martinez and Boateng, because it’s obvious that we would have to replace them at roughly the same time.
If we actually thought about what we’re doing, we’d be having a working defense and could spend big on a replacement for Robben. But as we prefer wasting money on players we don’t need, we‘re now on the verge of spending more than a 100 million on two Centre backs and our offense consists solely of Lewandowski, the rest are either too bad, always injured or too old.
It’s the same with central midfielders. We don’t have a backup for Thiago, need one for years and yet, we keep buying guys like Sanches, Vidal, Goretzka or Tolisso, who all fit the same profile (more or less) and steal each other’s playing time. It’s idiotic.
Our squad is in shambles.
Neuer looks terrible right now, due to his injuries. We only have three fullbacks, one of which is not good enough for us (Rafinha) and one shouldn’t even play there (Kimmich). We have Javi, Hummels (I‘m aware that he’s used to the left side) and Boateng and Süle, who are all best as the right centre back and don’t have a single actual LCB.
We have exactly one creative build up player in midfield in Thiago, but all those other guys for one position and of course James, who we never wanted in the first place, who’d rather leave us yesterday.
Our offense is lacking class all over the place. Only Lewandowski is truly great. The rest looks promising, at best. Müller, Robben and Ribéry are a disaster.
Compare that squad with 2013:
Neuer-Alaba-Dante-Boa-Lahm-Schweinsteiger-Javi-Müller-Ribéry-Robben-Mandzukic. We had Robben on the bench for many games actually. Ever since, you could make the case, that we haven’t improved on a single position since then, but have been getting worse at most.
Our transfer policy is a disaster.