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Kahn's bleak scenario: "Have dramatically lost ground"

2022-05-07T11:41:22.196Z


Kahn's bleak scenario: "Have dramatically lost ground" Created: 05/07/2022, 13:36 By: Andreas Knobloch Oliver Kahn warns the Bundesliga against just chasing internationally. © IMAGO/Markus Fischer FC Bayern Munich dominates the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund is only second. Oliver Kahn and Michael Zorc explain why this is so. Munich - German champion is only the FCB, right? At least that's wha


Kahn's bleak scenario: "Have dramatically lost ground"

Created: 05/07/2022, 13:36

By: Andreas Knobloch

Oliver Kahn warns the Bundesliga against just chasing internationally.

© IMAGO/Markus Fischer

FC Bayern Munich dominates the Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund is only second.

Oliver Kahn and Michael Zorc explain why this is so.

Munich - German champion is only the FCB, right?

At least that's what the fans in the Allianz Arena have been singing with ease for ten years because it's true.

"Becoming German champion ten times in a row is a monumental success, unique in Europe's top leagues.

Our goal is to have a team next season that can play at the top of the Champions League, so we will automatically be favorites for the German championship title again," says FC Bayern boss Oliver Kahn in the Saturday edition (May 7th). May) of the

Süddeutsche Zeitung

.

But Kahn is also aware that the Bundesliga is no longer the annual May thriller it used to be.

"Of course I know that all non-Bayern fans would like more excitement in the fight for the championship.

But the competition has to provide the excitement.

Clubs like Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen will do everything they can to oust us from first place - and we will do everything we can to ensure that they don't succeed," said the ex-keeper.

FC Bayern Munich: Oliver Kahn has nothing against excitement, "but in the end with Bayern as champions"

“We have nothing against a title race with a lot of excitement.

On the contrary.

But in the end with a German champion FC Bayern!” hopes Kahn.

BVB sports director Michael Zorc, who now leads the chasing squad every year, tells the SZ why FC Bayern celebrates so dominantly at Marienplatz year after year.

"Everybody makes mistakes.

Of course we do too.

But I don't think those were such serious mistakes that it's our own fault that we haven't been able to stop Bayern ten times now.

If you want to become champions against Bayern - with this outstanding generation, with Neuer, Lewandowski, Müller, and with 285 million euros more in sales - then Bayern would have to, figuratively speaking, put their car into the crash barrier themselves.

But they never did us the favor,” says Zorc.

We have nothing against a title race with a lot of tension.

But in the end with a German champion FC Bayern

Oliver Kahn, Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 7, 2022

FC Bayern and Dortmund are slightly behind internationally: "Have dramatically lost ground"

Own mistakes have to be corrected, at the same time FC Bayern have to slip.

Sounds like a plan that Borussia Dortmund itself doesn't have much control over.

Oliver Kahn draws the following verdict from the consequences of the Bundesliga tension: "More top stars in the league, excitement at the top, that helps with the sale of TV rights at home and abroad.

And this is exactly where we have recently lost ground dramatically.

We are happy to work together with the German Football League on solutions for how the top German clubs can keep up in the Champions League.”

FC Bayern was the last remaining German club in the premier class to lose against Villarreal in the quarter-finals.

An actually mediocre club from Spain, which is playing for seventh place.

What does that mean for the Bundesliga?

"Without success in the Champions League, the entire Bundesliga will continue to lose ground in terms of marketing, and that will ultimately affect all clubs," said Kahn.

Internationally, Borussia Dortmund was eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League and then failed in the Europa League at eventual finalists Glasgow Rangers.

But in Dortmund, the national title in the Bundesliga counts for everything.

The Yellows have been waiting for the cup since the 2011/2012 season.

For Zorc, some aspects are not given enough attention: “We came close at least twice.

Once in Thomas Tuchel's first year with us, then in Lucien Favre's first year.

Many don't see that the direct duels in particular have been decisive in recent years.

This year we are twelve points behind.

If we had won both direct games against Bayern instead of losing both, we would have been level.

We have to do better again in direct duels!”.

It's a disadvantage if you constantly have to deal with the expectation that we as BVB would kindly have to stop Bayern.

Michael Zorc, sporting director Borussia Dortmund, Süddeutsche Zeitung May 7th

And he wishes that another topic was even more in the foreground.

"It may sound strange, but it's a disadvantage if you're constantly dealing with the expectation that we as BVB would kindly have to stop Bayern," said the sports director in the

Süddeutsche Zeitung

, who refrained from making major allegations.

“We did our job, yes, we sometimes make mistakes, but we usually finish second – and yet you are told everywhere that you have failed.

This is a trap we let ourselves be maneuvered into.

I think we didn't deserve that," adds Zorc, who argues primarily with the money: "The financial gap between Bayern and us is greater than that between us and Greuther Fürth.

The media pays too little attention to that.” Perhaps BVB can close the gap with the newcomers Niklas Süle and Nico Schlotterbeck.

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Source: merkur

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