Posts like these r dumb. What? What could have been?
SegundoNemo on
there is no “what could have been” lol. dortmund simply doesn’t have the money to pay players that can play at that level, they have been stuck in a cycle of just trying to profit enough to keep themselves good enough to be in UCL and that’s about it. maybe one day that will change but pretty much since the near-bankruptcy dortmund has been an incredibly risk-averse club that mostly focuses on chugging along rather than going for broke to be great. and to be clear this is NOT a criticism per se, just the reality of things. because the other very real possibility is that if they did try to spend more aggressively, it could backfire again and tank the club permanently this time around
Hot-Ad4676 on
There’s no what could have been for us since the club’s business model has been buying promising players and selling them for heavy fees since the time we nearly went bankrupt, Im still happy for the fact that any of these players like Dembele, Hakimi, Jude, Haaland, Lewa played for us and it showed how well the club did in identifying good youngsters
CMButterTortillas on
What’s cool is how they all helped pay for the next guy (Lewa, excluded who left on a free – fuck you in particular Mourinho.)
blacktiger226 on
For all 4: Dembele, Haaland, Lewa and Bellingham .. Nothing could have been. Lewa ran out his contract with us, Haaland had a release clause and Dembele and Bellingham we got astronomical offers for them.
The only one that “could have been” is Hakimi. He wanted to stay with us after his loan, and Real Madrid asked for 40 Mil for him. Not buying him is the worst squad decision in my opinion in the last 20 years. We spent 35+ mil on players like Goetze, Shuerrle, Malen, Couto .. etc. and we refused to pay for Hakimi who was in a much much better form and had much much better promise than all of them.
Because of that our right back position was a weakness point for 5 whole years, during which we could have won the league, the cup and maybe even a champions league, if we had a proper right back.
Narsil_lotr on
Why “what could’ve been”, so much wrong here. Several of these players are utterly incompatible with each other: you can 2 striker setups but not 2 classic 9s like Lewa, Guirassy and Haaland at the same time. Then these are very different generations, wouldn’t have been together regardless. Finally how could this have been, turn off all transfers but then how do you get them in? Finally, honestly, all except Hakimi on this list are strikers through and through, even if you could work a perfect offensive line-up with them through magic (say 4 offensive players of that quality for sake of argument), then what? Expect that to win things on its own? All had great eras at BVB and most didn’t see a BL win despite all the offensive quality. Ballon d’or is such a shitty thing, not only are individual prizes for a team sport always a little meaningless, it’s stacked full of strikers all the time. I don’t think I would’ve given it to any of the ex BVB players, Dembele or any of the top 3 this year personally, midfielders with their high impact are ignored most of the time and defenders too.
ClassyHypocrite on
Every team has a “what if” lineup, we aren’t special. Yes, we have had some generational players play for Dortmund, as have other teams
TTauchsieder on
Only One Word: Joke.
OutOfUniqueIdeas on
I’m sure the same is the case for some club outside of the really big ones every few years. Leverkusen had 6 current or former players in the Top 30 last year as well (Carvajal, Kroos, Wirtz, Xhaka, Calhanoglu, Grimaldo – 5 of those in the top 20) and nobody in the right mind thought “what could have been” then.
If Dortmund would have kept more than one of the former players in question (maybe Hakimi excluded), they wouldn’t have had the money to buy the others. Dembele alone already paid the transfers fees for 4-5 other players.
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Posts like these r dumb. What? What could have been?
there is no “what could have been” lol. dortmund simply doesn’t have the money to pay players that can play at that level, they have been stuck in a cycle of just trying to profit enough to keep themselves good enough to be in UCL and that’s about it. maybe one day that will change but pretty much since the near-bankruptcy dortmund has been an incredibly risk-averse club that mostly focuses on chugging along rather than going for broke to be great. and to be clear this is NOT a criticism per se, just the reality of things. because the other very real possibility is that if they did try to spend more aggressively, it could backfire again and tank the club permanently this time around
There’s no what could have been for us since the club’s business model has been buying promising players and selling them for heavy fees since the time we nearly went bankrupt, Im still happy for the fact that any of these players like Dembele, Hakimi, Jude, Haaland, Lewa played for us and it showed how well the club did in identifying good youngsters
What’s cool is how they all helped pay for the next guy (Lewa, excluded who left on a free – fuck you in particular Mourinho.)
For all 4: Dembele, Haaland, Lewa and Bellingham .. Nothing could have been. Lewa ran out his contract with us, Haaland had a release clause and Dembele and Bellingham we got astronomical offers for them.
The only one that “could have been” is Hakimi. He wanted to stay with us after his loan, and Real Madrid asked for 40 Mil for him. Not buying him is the worst squad decision in my opinion in the last 20 years. We spent 35+ mil on players like Goetze, Shuerrle, Malen, Couto .. etc. and we refused to pay for Hakimi who was in a much much better form and had much much better promise than all of them.
Because of that our right back position was a weakness point for 5 whole years, during which we could have won the league, the cup and maybe even a champions league, if we had a proper right back.
Why “what could’ve been”, so much wrong here. Several of these players are utterly incompatible with each other: you can 2 striker setups but not 2 classic 9s like Lewa, Guirassy and Haaland at the same time. Then these are very different generations, wouldn’t have been together regardless. Finally how could this have been, turn off all transfers but then how do you get them in? Finally, honestly, all except Hakimi on this list are strikers through and through, even if you could work a perfect offensive line-up with them through magic (say 4 offensive players of that quality for sake of argument), then what? Expect that to win things on its own? All had great eras at BVB and most didn’t see a BL win despite all the offensive quality. Ballon d’or is such a shitty thing, not only are individual prizes for a team sport always a little meaningless, it’s stacked full of strikers all the time. I don’t think I would’ve given it to any of the ex BVB players, Dembele or any of the top 3 this year personally, midfielders with their high impact are ignored most of the time and defenders too.
Every team has a “what if” lineup, we aren’t special. Yes, we have had some generational players play for Dortmund, as have other teams
Only One Word: Joke.
I’m sure the same is the case for some club outside of the really big ones every few years. Leverkusen had 6 current or former players in the Top 30 last year as well (Carvajal, Kroos, Wirtz, Xhaka, Calhanoglu, Grimaldo – 5 of those in the top 20) and nobody in the right mind thought “what could have been” then.
If Dortmund would have kept more than one of the former players in question (maybe Hakimi excluded), they wouldn’t have had the money to buy the others. Dembele alone already paid the transfers fees for 4-5 other players.