Bayern has more than just one player aka lot of players with salary of 5m-8m per year. What sense does it make for you to start comparing Dortmund‘s chance to pay only one single player in their squad as caliber as Lewandowski for 8m per year?
First of all, Frankfurt is not 20th but 27th. Second, they don’t have player as caliber as Lewandowski that worth the money, they don’t have the players/squad to have ambition to win the league like what Dortmund had at that time.
Who?
Why do I need to tell you the market price for a defender on his last year contract, why is it relevant? Are you forgetting that the point is that they shouldn’t let their player on his final year of their contract? Dortmund would lose the price so much when they could actually minimum double the price to sell him when he has 2 years on his contract. That’s why I mentioned Havertz’s case. And again, you don’t insert 37m euro release clause. That’s why I mentioned Havertz’s case.
You have right to accuse Leverkusen being feeder club, I don’t remember I was arguing Leverkusen being or not being feeder club.
Explain how is Bayern losing Kroos to Real Madrid is the same thing as Dortmund feeding those three players to Bayern? Real Madrid isn’t playing in Bundesliga FFS!
The point is Dortmund had the potential to win few more trophies especially the Bundesliga from building the foundation with those three if they show enough ambition, but they wasted the chance and chose to just fed them to Bayern aka the feeding club, strengthening Bayern. You want to talk about Man United transfer record over the last 10 years, why is it even relevant? Man United never feed their best players to Liverpool or Chelsea or Man city in those 10 years so it’s irrelevant to the discussion.
You said Dortmund should have done what Leverkusen did with Havertz. Well they did this with Dembele, Aubameyang, Kagawa, Miki.... They couldn't do it with Lewandowski for the reasons I and other posters stated several times.
You have to compare Dortmund with Leicester, Tottenham, Arsenal, not with Manchester United. You can compare Manchester United with Bayern Munich, both are the top dog in the league.
I mentioned Bayern because even the top dogs will lose players, even on a free, under certain circumstances.
You are always arguing in hindsight. Dortmund got the best years of Götze. He never reached his levels of his first 2 years. He even returned to Dortmund when Hummels left. Thus, they never lost 3 players to Bayern Munich.
The only real loss was Lewandowski but he was replaced with Aubameyang who wasn't bad either. Lewandowski also reached another level at Bayern You can compare his loss to the loss of Kroos, who became even better at Real Madrid.
Bayern decided to sell for 30 millions instead of letting him run down his contract and leaving on a free like Lewandowski did.
If course we can always argue which option is the better. At the end both clubs lost players they actually wanted to keep.
Anyway I believe you main issue isn't Dortmund selling players but selling them to Bayern within the Bundesliga.
Arsenal did this multiple times to Man City, Chelsea and even Man United.
Even you guys sold Tevez to Man City not too long ago. Where is the difference?
