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Comment: staircase in the madness

The record transfer of the French midfielder Paul Pogba is further evidence that the gap between the richest Clubs and the Rest of the football world is growing, says DW sports reporter Stefan Nestler.

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Transfer record: 105 million euros, plus possibly five million euros in bonus payments cashed Juventus for the Frenchman, Paul Pogba. Has shelled out a record amount of English Premier League club Manchester United. Crazy is not alone the sum for a player who, admittedly, an exceptional player, but not a real high-Flyer. Even crazier is the fact that ManUnited Pogba even can afford. In the last season the club slumped alone in TV money for the Broadcasts of the matches of the Premier League 127 million euros. The financial gap between the Clubs of the island, which you can throw around a lot of money, and most of the Rest of the football world, the need to keep his “toads”, is getting bigger and bigger.

Everywhere the records tumbled

Now the one or the other to argue like: “it doesn’t matter. Look at the last winner of the European competitions! No English clubs. Money shoots apparently but no goals.” But it is not that simple. Because, really, is that the tip is only the clubs that have a bulging wallet can play a role in the longer term. This is true not only in the European Cup, but also in the national leagues. And the English conditions from the color. Elsewhere, the transfer of records tumble. Even for an average gifted player in the Bundesliga will now require a two-digit million sums, and also paid for.

Duration of subscription to the Champions League

Stefan Nestler, DW sports

The result is that the financially strong clubs’re gonna buy one of the less well-to-do your talents faster and more frequently than was previously the case. Thus, the athletic gap is widening. The last Bundesliga season was an impressive demonstration of this trend: The FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund enteilten of the competition, the tension in the title race remained on the track. In the other big leagues in Europe, two, maximum three big clubs in General, the success. Behind it for a long time comes nothing. With the quasi-permanent subscription to a place in the Champions League other revenues gush in these big Clubs in at least the tens of millions – not to mention the chances of the them as a permanent starter in the European elite League on the global advertising market. Also there are big names help, of course, in the squad. And with all this money, can afford the clubs then even more expensive players.

Power and morality are of secondary importance

Financial experts have already geunkt many years ago, one day will burst the football bubble, as once those in the real estate industry. Not occurred, this scenario so far. The spiral continues, rather. Transfer fees of over € 200 million, as they were written in Lionel Messi’s last contract at FC Barcelona, today as a utopia, but could be in the not-too-distant future is quite a reality. With sporty performance, the Whole thing has to do only to a limited extent, and the moral Latte – think of what you could do with these huge amounts of Sense to do – in football, anyway, already well below the sward. The Pogba-Transfer is just another step on this staircase in the madness.

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