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Well, what can you say, you’ve had another very poor season and then you spend 35 million on two players. The exceptions have to be done away with, Stuttgart is playing everything into the ground and is being bought out and still has trouble buying Undav. Wolfsburg has been burning money for years, that’s the most obvious distortion of competition in the league. No performance, the money just keeps flowing. The same applies to Leverkusen and Leipzig, of course, the only difference to Wolfsburg is that they are able to work sensibly with the money, but even here, after a bad season, they can still just keep paying at CL level. It’s really annoying.
I always try to understand other points of view and have always understood that for most people it is a distortion of competition when a club can make losses, which are then simply taken over by the investor at the end of the season and you can start the new season at zero with the same budget.
But that no longer applies to Wolfsburg. VW also gave Schmadtke the task of reducing spending in 2018 and since then the numbers have improved significantly. This can also be seen in the financial figures that have been public since 2019.
https://www.dfl.de/de/hintergrund/lizenzierungsverfahren/finanzkennzahlen-der-proficlubs/
Wolfsburg’s annual results since the 2019 financial year:
2019: – 44,8 Mio
2020: – 21 Mio
2021: – 17,8 Mio
2022: + 5 Mio
2023: +0,1 Mio
2024 will only be published in a year, but since Wolfsburg has had high transfer income here for once (F. Nmecha, van de Ven), I would be surprised if the result is negative.
Wolfsburg has not used its competitive advantage for three years. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that in the past they had an unfair competitive advantage, without which no normal club would have survived.
Yet people are still complaining about the same things as they did 5+ years ago.
That’s why I ask myself, are the fans of other clubs not concerned about VW covering Wolfsburg’s losses, but rather that Wolfsburg actually gets more money from the sponsor than other clubs? That applies to all clubs and I don’t think 50+1 dictates to a sponsor how much money they want to invest in the club, or am I wrong?
From the club’s perspective, nobody would turn down a financially strong sponsor. The only possibility that remains is that VW says that if we don’t have the decision-making power in the club, there will be less money. Nobody can say for sure whether that would be the case. My gut feeling tells me that it wouldn’t happen. At least not to the extent that fans of other clubs would no longer talk about distortion of competition.
You can’t compare VfL Wolfsburg with clubs like VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Mönchengladbach, etc. These are relics of the past. The future belongs to clubs like RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg, as we can already see today, because their financial model is superior to that of the so-called traditional clubs.
Wait a minute, we can’t just leave this nonsense as it is. The “relics of the past” are the backbone of our league and thus indirectly the reason why VfL Wolfsburg is playing in this Bundesliga. Our club would not exist in this form, the Bundesliga would not exist in this form, if the Frankfurts, Stuttgarts, Hamburgs, Colognes, Gladbachs and Schalkes of this world had not created a brand that generates this advertising value in the first place.
We, the factory clubs, live in a symbiosis with the legal constructs of the Bundesliga, and as is typical of a symbiosis, each would be at a disadvantage without the other. The owners bring the money, the clubs provide the framework within which VfL Wolfsburg, for example, operates and within which it wants to stay. The more the focus shifts away from national traditional clubs to international superstars and clubs without real charisma, the more this becomes apparent. If the kids no longer wear BVB shirts but Mbappé shirts, then the connection is a.) no longer national and b.) no longer to clubs but to players. That is why RB will never attract the masses of people that Schalke does; crucial factors are missing, even if they play technically good football and make the stadium experience as pleasant as possible.
In this context, any arrogance on our part is out of the question, particularly in view of the ridiculous financial behaviour we have shown over the years. And it is certainly out of the question, including for us, to celebrate the increasing deregulation of a billion-dollar market such as football, especially through the removal of legal obstacles such as the possibility of circumventing the structural and organisational requirements of club law, like Turkey did yesterday when it went through. Hardly any of us are in the mood to see what happens when the world of football functions exclusively according to the models of Leipzig, Man City and PSG.
2024-07-03 17:23:00
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