That will never happen, RB Leipzig will always see the really good games as a way station. You have to find players who have exactly the same class. Upcoming transfers will be more expensive for Rb Leipzig.
It’s just bad for the Bundesliga that so many good players are leaving the league this year. The quality will continue to drop and the league will degenerate more and more into a training league. I think that’s a shame.
I’m curious how Szoboszlai will do at Liverpool. I think he’s capable of a very good career.
For years we’ve heard the same thing, every transfer period, the quality of the Bundesliga keeps getting worse and worse. If the quality has really been falling for years, then you should have slowly reached the level of the Austrian Bundesliga or the Danish Superliga…
Last year, Haaland and Lewandowski had the greatest possible bloodletting imaginable: the best striker of the past 10 years and the (probably) best striker of the next 10 years both left the league at the same time. Nevertheless, I didn’t feel any less entertained by the past season than by the previous seasons, in fact quite the opposite! There were many new stars, for example Kolo Muani, whose star has risen. I really enjoy watching young and up-and-coming players. I enjoy watching these players grow and improve from game to game and grow with their quests. That’s why I’m looking forward to the great talents who are still signed, because viewed as a whole, the Bundesliga is the number 1 contact point for many talented people who want to develop and improve. I often find young talents more interesting than mature players or “world stars” from whom you know what you are getting.
Yes, you didn’t feel less entertained. How many goals did the top scorer(s) score this year? Was it 15 goals? How many new “stars” were there? You only name one. Who are the many new stars? What other great talents have been signed? Give me names.
The level keeps dropping and 17 out of 18 clubs see themselves as training clubs. No wonder there is always the same master. This makes the league difficult to market.
But goals and spectacles didn’t suffer at all, no matter which stars left the league! Goals per game in the Bundesliga:
18/19: 3.18 goals per game.
19/20: 3.21 goals per game.
20/21: 3.03 goals per game.
21/22: 3.12 goals per game.
22/23: 3.17 goals per game.
It’s there in black and white. Just because fewer goals were enough to become the top scorer, there was just as much spectacle as before, just as many goals as before, just as many beautiful goals as before. The goals have spread over several shoulders. Goals, goals, goals, the Bundesliga is the highest-scoring top league in Europe. Goal spectacles, offensive spectacles, pressing spectacles, that’s what the Bundesliga has stood for for years and that doesn’t change because a few stars are moving to other leagues. For comparison, the other top leagues this season:
Premier League: 2.85 goals per game.
Serie A: 2.56 goals per game.
La Liga: 2.51 goals per game.
About Etas: 2.80 goals per game.
The Bundesliga clearly stands out from all other top leagues, for years they have had by far the highest goal average per game (over 3, amazing, that hasn’t happened for so many years in a row for decades!). That’s why I like to watch the Bundesliga. Just because a few goals are enough for the top scorer cannon, that’s really no indicator of how interesting the games are. When stars leave the league and talents follow, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any well-played goals or interesting or (for the neutral spectator) entertaining games anymore!
Let it be , you didn’t answer any of my questions. I ask again, who are the many new starters? Number of goals is not necessarily a sign of quality. Goals come from mistakes.
There’s no point in turning a blind eye to reality.
OK, maybe I misunderstood your answer. It sounded like you think it takes world-class attacking players (who guarantee 25-30 goals and 10 assists per season) to be entertained btw having interesting games. That’s how I interpreted the line with the top scorer. Then I just said that the spectacle of goals didn’t suffer at all and explained why a neutral spectator might not need top players at all. Because top players do not guarantee top games. For example, as a neutral spectator, I felt much less entertained by the Chelsea-Liverpool game in the first half of the Premier League than by the Gladbach-Bremen game in the second half. Undoubtedly there was a collection of world stars in the former, but the game was incredibly disorganized, full of individual and team tactical mistakes and just absolutely corrosive to watch. Gladbach versus Bremen, on the other hand, was football entertainment par excellence. You don’t need world stars. When Grifo, Philipp Hofmann and Bülter are on the pitch, the games that come out are just as exciting and entertaining as when Mbappe, Salah and Haaland play against each other. You don’t need world stars for exciting and entertaining games. I didn’t write anything else.
Regarding the questions from your previous answer: Sure Kolo Muani became a star, or Donyell Malen, who played really well this season, many scorers and slowly seems to be fulfilling the promise made with the 30 million transfer back then had hoped for. Or Frimpong made another crazy jump this season. Gregor Kobel has risen to the ranks of world-class goalkeepers this season. There have been some new stars. I don’t have to list any talents. They are well known. Frankfurt have signed Larsson, who is considered one of Sweden’s greatest talents since Ibrahimovic, for a record fee, by the way! Frankfurt is now also fishing in the top class of talent. Or Duranville in Dortmund. Absolute top talent, unfortunately a bit injured, hopefully he will find his way in the new season. Today there were reports again, Bitshiabu to RB Leipzig e.g. from PSG. There’s still some talent to come. That is clear. Precisely because the Bundesliga has earned a reputation as the number 1 contact point for talent in recent years. Many players in the Bundesliga take the last step towards world class. That’s outstanding.
Signing top talent and shaping them into (super)stars is one thing. The other thing is to keep them in the long term. For me, those who don’t manage to keep them and have to sell them are also training clubs (as mentioned above, 17 out of 18 of them in the Bundesliga). Here I have to give praise to Leipzig, who managed to tie Olmo longer. I don’t want to know what kind of team Dortmund would be if they didn’t have to sell all the best players out of necessity, but sorted out the bad ones year after year. Very hard task to close the gaps and keep the overall quality.
Then I see finished superstars from other leagues coming to us in their prime. Even Bayern can’t quite do it and have to fall back on some older superstars such as e.g. B. Mane (then 31) or now possible signing of Kane (soon to be 30). It would be an absolute signal to sign players like Messi or Ronaldo at the age of 26/27, where talent, technique, experience etc. are at their peak. I deliberately take out the defense (e.g. De Light) here.
With the money that Leizig gets, future transfers are slowly becoming unaffordable for other clubs that want players from Leipzig. But on the other hand, other clubs know that Leipzig has a lot of money and will raise their prices as well. Well, supply and demand.