Nico Williams

topt

Senior Member
Aye true true. What were the fees for Tah, Sanitizer, Hummels, Lewy and fuck knows who else again?
as this forum explained to me Tah wanted Barca, only after being rejected by barca he setteled for bayern; Hummels was Bayern player; Lewy ? how back are we going now ?
 

topt

Senior Member
To be fair to Bayern you can sort of understand it. They don't really have the South American or Latin source/route like the big Spanish and Portuguese clubs have so they have to buy from within their league and generally Northern or Western Europe. I think someone said that earlier too.
true, germans werent wery good imperialist, not for lack of trying, he he
 

topt

Senior Member
There was a time when Bayern were loaded with South American forwards though. Pizarro, Roque Santa Cruz and maybe one other.

If I look through their transfers, wouldn't be surprised if they got them for free from other Bundesliga clubs though.
after the Breno saga Bayern really went off south america, hope this changes with Freund
 

topt

Senior Member
It's systetemic. The clubs/agents pressuring the clubs to take deals to Bayern for a fraction of what they couldn't sell overseas.

This comment from 10 years ago. Reddit.

In the 90's Bayern used to buy key players from Karsruher SC, for example Olli Kahn, Mehmet Scholl, Michael Tarnat and Thorsten Fink. After that they did the same with Bayer Leverkusen with players like Michael Ballack, Zé Roberto, Lúcio and Robert Kovač. Then they went on to Dortmund with Lewandowski, Götze and Hummels.

Obviously it doesn't matter to much to us at Barca fans. We're just pointing that us paying BO clause for a goalkeeper and Nico (hello Javi Martinez btw) is way different than having a carte blanche of the domestic scene at cut price prices or even free.

Every time a rival builds up, chopping them at the knees for 2/3+ of their best players.

Things a bit different now with the inflation of the market and external buyers able to go big ala Wirtz, Kolo Muani, etc.

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Uff I'm getting way too much incorrect auto corrects. But you guys get the gist of what I'm saying right.
am sorry, you are not weaking competition with underpaying for williams ? hell i hear you dont want to pay even low 60M release clause; damn really we have to bo back 35 years ago ?
Kolo Muani ? really he he he
 
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