Comment: The Premier League is the Bundesliga, for miles and miles.

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It was clear: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 – bowled all of the English Teams out of the Champions League. A Moment to Reflect, says Joscha Weber.

Germany vs. England 0:3. You can break the knockout stages of the Champions League to this simple formula. Of course, this is the meeting of six club teams, with all its foreign and domestic players is not to deny, no comparison of two national teams and still, the message to The German (club)soccer international has lost the connection, the Premier League is the Bundesliga, for miles and miles hurries away.

Borussia Dortmund – Tottenham Hotspur 0:4 FC Schalke 04 – Manchester City 10:2, Bayern Munich – Liverpool FC 1:3 (play – off). The Figures alone speak volumes. And anyone who has seen the games, must see Not only the results of these games were from a German point of view, devastating. Also playfully, tactically, and even combative, significant gaps between the Teams in the League and their opponents from the Premier League gaped. The second round was a show of force by the British football.

Telling: Not a single German club for all four English clubs in the quarter-finals

DW sports editor Joscha Weber: “The German football now has a choice, which is not really nice”

England celebrates, that all four teams from the island in the Champions League-quarter-finals. By contrast, no German club in the quarter-finals of the king class is for the first time since the age of 13 represented. Clearly the highest level of European competition, could not document the shift in the balance of power. You had grown accustomed to the dominance of Spanish clubs in European club competitions, behind England, Germany and Italy, but ended up also success. Now the Premier does League with all the Power. And the reasons.

Around 5.4 billion euros, the financial strongest League in the world in three years from domestic TV marketing and thus depends on all the other leagues is clear. Add to this the international marketing as well as Merchandise and ticket revenues. With this money, the Premier League can buy the best players in the world and the Bundesliga jewels as Leroy Sané, Ilkay Gundogan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Kevin de Bruyne or Heung-Min claw Son, quite legally, from the showcase. And even if money shoots in the sense of the word no goals, this bloodletting at some point.

The German football faces an uncomfortable decision

If Jürgen Klopp – a Star of the Bundesliga, lost to the Premier League – joking, that he hopes, “that any city or country championship”, from the Champions League, the representatives of the League not to laugh really. Too heavy for the loss of millions of revenue, the waving in the later rounds of the Champions League weighs in. The financial gap between Premier League and Bundesliga are likely to grow in size.

The German football now has a choice, which is not really nice: Either a radical on the revenue side to work, so TV revenue with more Pay-TV contracts will increase the international marketing with more presence (and Playing) abroad, as well as the Fans with higher Ticket and merchandise prices pull more money out of your pocket, and finally, the already seething Fan base and against the application. Or the capitalist race against the Premier League already lost, give up, and at an early From the European Cup to get used to. This is a Moment to Think for the German football.