SAFMUTD
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I get what you say, maybe they just know and accept the gap between them is so big that there's really nothing they can do to close it enough to actually compete with them. Maybe as you say is not lack of ambition but just resignation.Yeah you could see it that way, but I wouldn't say they lack ambition as much as they simply lack money. They have to be realistic in terms of their capabilities. Acting with too much ambition means taking risks that can come back to bite them. The reality simply is that the gap to most teams is so large, that what you called the double effect in another post is really not as relevant as you think. To most teams behind Bayern it makes no difference whether they're losing their players to Bayern or to someone else, because Bayern would just buy someone else and not be any weaker for it. So that gap exists no matter if they refuse or not.
Clubs that have ambition either don't have the money to compete yet, or don't have the money nor any sense if you look at the likes of Schalke. As hopeless as Bayern's dominance may seem, clubs are growing in their shadow. Unfortunately for them Bayern is also growing constantly, so the gap is unlikely to ever close entirely but I don't think it's necessary to be on completely equal level financially to sustain a challenge.
Truth is unless a massive take over is done in Germany or Bayern suffering an unprecedented crisis I don't think things will change much in the next year's.
The gap is huge and it's increasing year by year, even last season when Bayern was a disaster and started the league terribly they managed to win it walking.