They're brilliant to watch.
Are Dortmund building their next great side?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Very happy with what I've seen so far. This is obviously the sort of game they'd have lost last few seasons and then the Bundesliga is gone. Think last 8 is about their limit in CL.
Favre - i do hope we go for him next. The way players bypassed the high press was a beauty . Ofcourse the classic Dortmund one touch transition
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Dortmund is big job in its own right but he deserves a big job in England or Italy before he retires. A very underrated manager over the last 10 years.Favre - i do hope we go for him next. The way players bypassed the high press was a beauty . Ofcourse the classic Dortmund one touch transition
They were very unimpressive in the first half. Missed the second half, apparently they were a completely different team then? Woold be good for the Bundesliga Dortmund to win it. But they don't seem ready for the CL despite the big win against Atleti.
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True, they were shit in the 1st half. Favre's subs made a significant change to Dortmund.
Looks so much like Ray RomanoFavre - i do hope we go for him next. The way players bypassed the high press was a beauty . Ofcourse the classic Dortmund one touch transition
Key was Dahoud and Paco for Weigl and Götze. They also started playing once they went behind, they were sitting far too deep in the first half and let Bayern play. Once they had to play, they were brilliant. They normally play more on the front foot, but today they adapted a bit to Bayern in the first half with a more solid and defensive approach.
Ok, thanks.
For whatever reason Favre didn't start wit his best 11. Odd when they don't play for two weeks.
I did muse pre match that maybe he was thinking to see in the game for an hour and then with subs win in last 30 and that's how it panned out.
I did muse pre match that maybe he was thinking to see in the game for an hour and then with subs win in last 30 and that's how it panned out.
Another one who only managed to catch the first half but was not impressed either.
They will probably win the league but i can't see them winning the Champions league any time soon.
They will probably win the league but i can't see them winning the Champions league any time soon.
They always have been brilliant to watch. Great result this weekend.
Yeah pretty sure this side won't win the CL, too young and inexperienced and like always this team will get picked apart before they can mature enough to win that cup. But if they play their hands right they could end up earning a couple hundred million from their current crop of talents, which they need to invest into the next crop of talents and building their brand until they maybe one day can compete with the top wage paying clubs.
When anyone says Jose isn't given enough money, it's so very easy to point to Dortmund and call bullshit on that excuse. You don't have to spend vast sums of money to build a great team.
I wouldn't necessarily think that they can't hold their talents. The situation is dfferent now. The club has established itself at the top and pays very high wages, not far behind Bayern. They are on their best way to become a European top side.
Of course they will occasionally have to sell their very best players but there are probably only three or four clubs in the world which can avoid that. Wouldn't say it is unimaginable that they win the CL with Favre as their coach.
Dortmund has spent 306m€ on 22 players since 2016 (Bayern: 176m€).
Now here we are at the point where looking at net spend is mandatory.
They've also had to replace the likes of Yarmolenko, Sokratis, Aubameyang, Dembele, Ginter, Mor, Bender, Ramos, Subotic, Hummels, Mkhitaryan, Gundogan and Blaszczykowski.
Bayern haven't had anywhere near the rebuilding to do.
The OP wasn't at that point.
Thats not the topic. The OP basically said Dortmund doesn't spend big on players.
They spend in an intelligent way, spreading the risk over numerous transfers rather than spending big on one or two, I guess that's why they seem to not be spending big when they are. Last three seasons they have never reached the £30m mark on a single player. When they make the money they do on transfers, they are well within their right to reinvest that accordingly.
It's just a well run club from top to bottom.
What a huge prediction. As if winning the Champions League was the norm for a club like Dortmund.