The football magazine “Kicker” has the Bundesliga stars themselves choose the greatest disappointments of the season every year. This time at the forefront: a professional of FC Bayern, followed by a star of the BVB.
In 2023 it was Sadio Mané (FC Bayern) who disappointed around 42 percent of the voters. Last year, the Bundesliga soccer player Naby Keita from SV Werder Bremen, interviewed by the “kicker”, chose the largest flop (25.6 percent): The midfielder should bring Champions League air to the Weser, but sacks in the green and white in the no man’s land and did not play any sport, but caused no attention to the place with a travel boy.
In 2025, according to the specialist magazine, almost 220 Bundesliga stars voted (among other things) about the greatest disappointment among the field players in a large survey and this time chose a star of FC Bayern in the folding first place. Joao Palhinha received 13.4 percent of the votes, who cost Munichers more than 50 million euros last summer, but spent most of the time on the bench and may now even be at saying goodbye.
Vincent Kompany Palhinha ordered only six times in the starting XI, the Bayern coach relied on other players much more often.
It looked different with Julian Brandt, who took second place in the flop ranking with 10.2 percent of the vote. At Borussia Dortmund, the midfielder was mostly the first eleven, but was repeatedly criticized due to fluctuating services with many rashes.
There were also rumors of sales for Brandt, but these fell silent in the past few weeks because the BVB and Brandt increased significantly and ultimately even reached the Champions League.
Helmer: Brandt should leave BVB
The ex-Dortmund Thomas Helmer would nevertheless advise Brandt to change air. “If I were Julian Brandt, I would go somewhere else,” said Helmer at sport.de*. “He needs this for himself. He is not a bad player, but in Dortmund you keep going to shoot himself up. He is a good player, but he is often not there in important games,” Helmer put his finger in the wound.
Brandt is “a candidate you have to think about,” said the former BVB star with regard to a change in the squad of the black and yellow.
Third place in the flop ranking meanwhile secured Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface. Last season with 14 goals and nine templates involved in the title, the Nigerian was too often outside in 2024/25. 6.9 percent of the coordinating Bundesliga stars saw him as a disappointment.
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