Quote Originally Posted by BlueCrew LA View Post
Thugz gave a better response then I could. Technically Dortmund should be able to afford bigger salaries but for all intensive purposes they run themselves like a mid sized club. They keep ticket prices low so they don't really get the benefit of the huge stadium. I remember they had a boycott over 22 euro tickets. I just reserved my USC v Notre Dame tickets and they're going to cost 100s of dollars.

You would think winning the league and getting into the CL a lot of those players are going to get increases regardless.

I think they should be looking for some veterans a la Schalke with Raul.
thats exactly what some german experts said that they should be looking for a veteran.
but also a lot said that klopp is right to keep faith in his youngsters since they got dortmund the title after all.

I mean the title this season was something the club would have never expected.
They were aiming for europa league and got the title.

So even if they get europa league next season it will still be a big achievment for dortmund with their resources and their money.

but jürgen klopp said he doesnt want to split the relationship between the players.

They were linked with klose already but they didnt want to sign him because they only play with a 4-5-1 system and they already have 2 strikers with barrios and lewandowski and with klose as well that would unsettle the strikers and someone would always be unhappy.

He said he already has 2 top strikers.... and should he really tell them that one of them will not even be in the squad for matches?

Miroslav Klose: Korb von Jürgen Klopp - "Passt eben nicht" - FC Bayern - Sport - tz-online.de