… but I can see that I don’t have to look forward to it anymore, the defenders of tradition are already there.
To be honest, I’m a bit surprised that it took so long for the first “traditional club” to set up such a system under the guise of “everything is fair and great for all clubs involved”.
That’s not a great match against Bayern in particular, I even secretly feared that BVB would be the first. 
Football has long been just a perfectly normal business, except that the sales argument isn’t “super freshness for the whole day!” or “so that your baby stays nice and dry!” or “Funniest booze anywhere!” or whatever crazy and/or mendacious advertising slogans there are …. but “the best club with the most traditional tradition!” or “yellowest wall!” or “More than just a club” or or or.
Plain normal capitalism.
And in this there is a basic tendency towards monopolization.
We haven’t got that far (i.e. with monopolies) (for a long time?), but we have been seeing a tendency towards oligarchism “the big ones eat the small ones and try to push the competitors out of the market” for decades across all leagues and in Europe Level with the “reform” of the old European cups in favor of comparatively fewer large clubs.
Only in the last 20-30 years the pace has steadily increased, so it is becoming more and more noticeable.
Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic added: “By working with Los Angeles Football Club, we have the opportunity to develop talent internationally in our own system. Our campus, which remains the heart of FC Bayern’s youth work, will also benefit. In the future, we will be able to offer our young players who are supported there a training path that is even better tailored to them and thus a better transition to our professional teams and professional football. That makes FC Bayern more attractive as a training club.”
This statement, which I believe is at the heart of the entire “joint venture” idea, could also be made by RB or Chelsea officials.
In any case, I don’t see the (significant!) difference between “CA River Plate -> LAFC -> FC Bayern” and “FC Liefering -> RB Salzburg -> RB Leipzig”.
It’s about keeping “the talents in your own system” and passing them on. For the benefit of the last in the newly created internal food chain.
You don’t have to love this evolution of football. (I don’t.)
But is probably unstoppable, unfortunately.