"Please don't go to Bayern. I honestly thought he'd go there. I told him at some point: Please don't do it. Don't do this to us. You can say that for German football, we need German talents to stay here - but in the end there's only Bayern Munich at the very top when we talk about quality like Flo's. I wanted him to go abroad,"
"I told the Bayern guys that, too. I was happy for him that he took the step. I wouldn't have thought he'd dare to go abroad so soon."
Bayern Munich's dominance in German football has provoked personal resentment across clubs and players. Bayer Leverkusen contested Jonathan Tah, who later joined Bayern for a low fee. VfB Stuttgart damaged its relationship with Nick Woltemade to avoid selling him to Bayern and later sold him abroad. Robert Andrich publicly urged Florian Wirtz not to join Bayern and preferred Wirtz to move overseas. That bitterness reflects a broader unwillingness to feed Bayern's power. Growing anti-Bayern sentiment may drive Bundesliga clubs to push back, keep top German talent at home, and attempt a competitive revival.
Read at Bavarian Football Works
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]