Matthew: Bayern and BVB are so strong
08.09.2025 07:08 | 2: 25m
Germany’s record national player Lothar Matthäus has evaluated the transfer summer of FC Bayern and BVB for RTL/NTV and Sport.de and commented on a coaching search at Bayer Leverkusen.
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I think you would have liked to go through one or the other transfer both on the one hand and on the other. So both in sales and in purchasing. Everything certainly didn’t work. Wirtz has not come. You didn’t want to come. You negotiated with both players. Williams has not come. So I think they had other ideas. But I am convinced that the team can keep up not only in national, but also in international comparison. If you are spared several injuries in one fell swoop. Alonso two. That would be the easiest. I believe that this was not about the results in Leverkusen. With the discharge, but also the way he dealt with with the players. There wasn’t much positive things. But you should have known that from the Leverkusen side. Not only should, but must. And that’s why this misunderstanding now occurred with the early dismissal from the Haag. And I wish you that you now have a happy hand to find someone who then also builds on successful times with this new team.
Yes. First, because Bayern Munich is always the favorite, regardless of whether players are missing or not. But Dortmund currently has a big problem that you have tried to fix on the last or the last transfer days. A lot of players injured on the defensive. Basically, you have a squad similar to Bayern Munich. When all players are there, they are definitely a Champions League candidate. And I think nobody talks about championship after last season in Dortmund. They want to be stable and of course they want to achieve the greatest possible. But FC Bayern is still a level over Dortmund, over Leverkusen, over Leipzig or also via Frankfurt. And that’s why the championship only goes through FC Bayern? Yes, if we look at the numbers, definitely. And that is not just me, but the whole club, everyone comes as a responsibility, are at Eintracht Frankfurt, supported him and he has a great network. He has a certain sense of what he can also ask for players. And it is not discussed for long. It does not run like a chewing gum for long, but it is simply clear announcements by Markus Krösche The player costs a sum XY and the sum xy. If not paid, then he stays with Eintracht Frankfurt.