"We have no chance if the Bavarians offer players two times more money" (Borussia Dortmund)

"They want to destroy us. Not humanely because they do not love us, but to eliminate us as a direct competitor and that is why they have submitted offers to our players. So that we no longer represent a danger to them. This is a legitimate problem and we must live with it," says Joachim Watzke, CEO of Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga), about rival club FC Bayern Munich, reported the German newspaper Die Welt on 28/01/2014.

Watzke referred in particular to the successful recruitment, by Bayern, of Mario Götze (summer 2013-14) and Robert Lewandowski (from 2014-15) from Borussia Dortmund. "After our 5-2 win in the German Cup (in 2011-12), I saw the faces of the main actors in Munich, and Bayern then hit. We have no chance if the Bavarians offer players two times more money. Nevertheless we will not abandon our philosophy," said the Dortmund CEO.

"There is no other league where one team dominates as much as in the Bundesliga. The current situation does not look like La Liga (dominated by Barcelona and Real Madrid), but rather like the Scottish Championship (dominated by only Celtic since…