If there is another vote and this turns out to be against the investor – especially because of opposing votes from the second league, the clubs in the first league are likely to carry out their “threat”.
Sooner or later we will see an investor and if the fan doesn’t like the fact that the DFL is trying to keep the Bundesliga competitive in international competition because it’s such evil commercialism, then the anti-fan should take a look at “honest football”. look at the base. It still exists…
These “traditionalists” annoy me so much. Pure self-expression.
But these are also the ones who demand a “fairer” distribution of TV money. Fair does not mean that sporting success should be important, but rather the quota or generally that more should be distributed from top to bottom.
The current distribution is so evenly balanced that Bayern and Co actually have to get annoyed every year.
Fair distribution of money???
For me, fair would mean that it ALSO (not ONLY) plays a role what the ratings are for the individual games. Because: Is it fair that RB Leipzig, which already has a relatively powerful owner, receives the money for its own league placement, which the DFL can pay because thousands of Schalke fans get a Sky subscription to watch the 2nd league to be able to? Right, it’s not.
And what threat are you talking about? A split from the DFL? Who would do that? Bavaria, okay. Leipzig, all well and good. Maybe Dortmund, Wolfsburg and Leverkusen. But what do they do then? A league of its own? With 5 clubs? Super League? With eight clubs? It would definitely work…
Football has now become an industry, so let’s argue with this:
Every product where the Bundesliga counts needs a USP (Unique Selling Point) to be successful. That of the Prem is that you have probably the strongest league in the world, that of LaLiga, that you have the two biggest clubs in football history, that of Serie A, that you have several clubs with a long-standing tradition at the top international level and that the BL, that fans have a say in the club and that football in general is very close to the fans.
If you mess up with the fans because of this investor deal, which, outside the ultra scenes, is criticized not primarily because of the result but because of how it came about, you will probably lose the USP just mentioned in the long run. This effect would be reinforced by presumably further rising prices for streaming services, which are not as commonplace in Germany as in other countries. So in the end you weaken the main market, Germany, in order to strengthen another, in which you have an enormous competitive disadvantage due to the language (and possibly also history). So it would probably be an economic, but definitely a marketing disaster…
And why all the risk? So that maybe 2 or 3 German clubs can make it to the CL quarter-finals? And with luck, two into the semi-finals and one into the final? Just let a transparent, widely recognized vote take place with the ability to see who voted for what.
There will always be people who complain, but many more fans will also recognize the result…