When you look in the good old dictionary (well, to be honest, in its online edition, goes faster!), the first thing you will find under the weak verb “moan” is the following definition: “complain loudly; showing someone his pain, his grief with sighs and groans ”. And with it the state of the Bundesliga.
It was really a shame how Bayern Munich presented the second from Leverkusen in the so-called top game in their stadium on Sunday. Half-time: 5-0. Anyone who had promised themselves at least a bit of tension beforehand – naively, as one unfortunately has to add – had to sigh and groan by half-time at the latest and show their grief at the state that the largest and most important German sports competition has achieved.
On Tuesday, Julian Nagelsmann, the coach of FC Bayern, was asked again about the Bundesliga in the compulsory press conference before the Champions League game against Benfica Lisbon on Wednesday (9 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Champions League and at DAZN) . A reporter asked if he could understand why quite a few people now say after Sunday’s game that it is all a bit boring.
Nagelsmann’s answer then began as follows: “Now I’m on the other side. In the last few years I have always tried to fight Bavaria (as a trainer in Hoffenheim and Leipzig, the editor). I think there is always a better way to do everything to be successful yourself than to get into shame mode. “
There is always something bold about it when a representative of the club, who has been successfully defending the title for almost ten years, accuses his fellow campaigners (indirectly) of not doing enough and of falling into a “whimsy mode”. It’s a bit like the great white shark accusing other marine life of simply not doing enough to avoid being eaten by it.
Those who argue with whining are ignoring reality and its food chains. In the sea, the great white shark dominates because it is the great white shark. In the Bundesliga of FC Bayern, because on the one hand it was and is damn good – and on the other hand it benefits from a system without redistribution mechanisms in which the rich get richer and richer, especially through the money from the Champions League.
Before we continue to whine at this point, we can refer to another sentence by Nagelsmann: “Of course, it’s a bit easier to speak as a Bayern coach.”
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