The Bundesliga clubs spent 600 million euros in the past transfer period, around 160 million euros less than last summer. A trend that can also be observed internationally. The Premier League clubs paid 460 million euros less for transfer fees (2.34 billion euros compared to 2.8 billion euros). “I have been working in this business for 17 years. For me, this was the weakest transfer period since I started,” said star agent Volker Struth, who represents Mario Götze and Toni Kroos, among others, to the Sports picture.
In the Bundesliga in particular, no reversal of the trend is to be expected any time soon. “And I believe that things will continue like this in Germany,” continued Struth. There are many reasons for this.
On the one hand, the clubs are missing the income from television money. The streaming service DAZN, which holds the rights to the Friday and Sunday Bundesliga games, has not paid part of the agreed sum. 50 million euros of this would have gone to the clubs.
On the other hand, some of the traditionally most lucrative clubs simply no longer play in the Bundesliga. “15 years ago there was a strong HSV, a strong Schalke, a strong Hertha and Cologne in the first division. They are missing,” explains Struth. Instead of the traditional clubs mentioned, clubs like St. Pauli, Kiel, VfL Bochum and 1. FC Heidenheim now play in the top division. They do not have the same strength on the transfer market, with Bochum spending less than a million euros on new signings this summer.
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