I say it yes, operational blindness in perfection. Watzke and Zorc. In the BLÖD it says they want to get rid of 32 million in player salaries but they can’t get rid of them because nobody wants these players. In recent years they have paid too much money for too much average in the squad but also on the bench. THAT flies all over their ears now.
There’s quite a lot of salary going away. Hitz, Bürki, Zagadou, Haaland, Witsel, Pongracic, Reinier, probably Akanji are well over 30 million that will be eliminated. The previous newcomers, on the other hand, should hardly get more than 20 million together.
Then of course you have to keep looking to see who might go, although I don’t see that many sales candidates apart from Schulz, Wolf and maybe Guerreiro, in all other positions you are not so insanely broadly occupied that you could happily give up players.
But you already have a good half of the goal together in the short term. In the next 2 or 3 years, the fat salaries of Hummels and Reus should then be eliminated.
That’s the problem. When players go, it’s often the promising or better ones who go. Akanji was probably BVB’s liveliest IV until the very end. You don’t have to say anything to Haaland. What BVB never gets rid of are all the bad purchases. Nothing learned from Schürle, just keep going. A Schulz or Meunier will certainly make good money, too good for what they deliver, which is why all these players will stay with BVB until they retire. It’s similar with Hummels and Reus. Both have more or less finished, should be good backups in the best case. Nevertheless, you know they will probably be playing there for another 3 years, and more often than you think.
And Rose isn’t a savior either. You always have the feeling that what comes from Salzburg and wins the championship there is a hit. It has now been recognized that it is nonsense. In all honesty, the league in Austria is a walk championship. It’s almost never in danger for RBS. The problem is that there is still a lot of higher quality because it’s a Red Bull club. From the back it doesn’t change anything about the fact that this league has a relatively feasible run-through program comparatively. Without wanting to completely deny the skills of a coach who used to train there, but in principle Donald Duck would always make Salzburg champions.