#1 A selling club
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For a team that can afford to spend over €100m on players as they did in the 2016 transfer market, you’d think they’d be able to hold onto their best players.
That’s until you realised that most of the money had been generated through player sales, as has been the case for quite some while now. Even Bayern had to bail the club out with a €2m loan to keep them afloat when they couldn’t pay their player salaries a few years ago.
As such, Dortmund have to accept that they will always be a selling club. Gundogan, Hummels and Mkhitaryan are just the tip of the iceberg. Although he’s back now, Mario Gotze was sold when at the peak of his powers.
When a club can’t hold on to its biggest assets, you have to ask the question why? Until they keep the bulk of their squad for a sustained period, they’ll always be the bridesmaid, never the bride.
