Sport pick Dortmund has replaced spending with scouting and is now on top
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Like any significant change, this started with recognition. The year was 2008 and Borussia (Dortmund) -;Champion League winner in 1997, German champion 2002 and UEFA Cup finalist in 2002;he realized that he could no longer keep himself on the high floors of the Bundesliga table. People looked at us as a club in the Champions League and we felt that way. But we just did not prove it anymore on the course, remembers BVB Sports Director Michael Zork.
Sixth, seventh, seventh, ninth, thirteenth. The yellow-blacks had become a second-class team in the German elite since they could not spend much money on transfers due to sins from the far-away past. The cowardly spending as a result according paid sport predictions of the eternal chase with Bayern (Munich) around the new millennium and the failure to seek the Champions League standings led the club to the very edge of insolvency (according to Zork) in 2005, and hence to the eternal dilemma of professional football:We asked:how can we be successful without large financial resources available? .
Part of the answer was the gratitude of bringing a young coach innovator who had created a little football miracle in the second division Mainz 05. His name was Juergen Klop. And the high-intensity press style of the new mentor, and Dortmund`s poor financial condition, also wept for different faces on the pitch. Overnight, the transfer target profile changed completely.
The BVB stopped looking at experienced and expensive middle-class players and instead focused its efforts on, according to Tsork, youngsters with a high potential ceiling;boys at the beginning of their careers, hungry for playing time, ready to learn, and, quite importantly, much less weight in the bookkeeping. In 2007/08, the average age of new additions was just over 27 years, and after 12 months it dropped to 23, 5 years, and then just went down in the next decade;between 22 and 23.
So, a solution born of anxiety has subsequently become a business-winning business model.
Zork laughed at the supposition that he should be seen as Billy Bean`s Bundesliga, but Dortmund`s return to the status of the second most successful German club in the last decade is precisely due to the principles of the so-called ParibolMoneyball is the Auckland Atletico General Manager`s pattern of using special statistics for player recruiting).
The scout unit, formerly headed by Arsenal Sven Mysllinat (leaving from there), most often dives unknown talents that other clubs lightly ignore. Then they integrate into the working core of more experienced players, giving them time and space to grow. After several seasons, they are sold at a huge profit to use their sharply raised market value, and the cycle is resumed by reinvesting the money in the next wave of top talent.
Only in the past three years Dortmund won 427 million pounds of transfers, including 103. 5 million from Barcelona for Ousmane Dembele, 57. 8 million from Arsenal to Pierre-Emerich Obamayan and 57. 6 million
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