FC Bayern surely does not want a Bundesliga salary cap — nor thinks the league needs one.
Does the Bundesliga need a salary cap? Is Bayern Munich too dominant for the league’s own good?
This discussion never seems to recede too far below the surface in Germany, but Bayern executive board member for sport isn’t wasting time worrying about it.
“This simply doesn’t affect me, because a year and a half ago I didn’t hear a word about a salary cap when [Bayer] Leverkusen and [VfB] Stuttgart finished ahead of us,” Eberl stated in comments captured by @iMiaSanMia. “Now, a year and a half later, we’ve done a good job, we’re all standing here together, doing very, very well, and are deservedly top of the Bundesliga.
“But none of this was gifted to us. This [discussion] also shows the strength we have as FC Bayern.”
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Eberl is right to bristle at the discussion. In the present landscape, there is no way for the Bundesliga to impose a salary cap and expect its top teams to still compete with Europe — as other officials have already noted. This is a case of the other clubs in Germany needing to pick up the slack.
Take clubs like Borussia Dortmund in recent years, or Eintracht Frankfurt now. Both have had exciting crops of talented players yield huge bundles of transfer income, but it has left the clubs adrift in each case. Leverkusen sold Florian Wirtz for infinity billion euros, but hired the wrong coach after Xabi Alonso’s departure. It isn’t easy for any of these clubs to match Bayern, but all of them are taking unforced errors and lagging much further behind than they ought to.
As Bayern and Germany fans, we’re as invested in the Bundesliga’s success as anyone at the club also must be. So we are rooting for success. It has just been hard to come by — and actually stick — lately.
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