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German legendary goalkeeper Kahn angrily criticized that the Bundesliga became a foil for the Premier League

10:38pm, 3 September 2025【Football】

The Premier League has a maximum transfer fee of 5 players this summer, and 4 of them are from the Bundesliga, which has caused the legendary German goalkeeper Kahn, who was once the CEO of Bayern Munich, to make a fuss about the fact that the Bundesliga cannot retain talents and would rather degenerate into the Premier League.

In addition to the transfer fee bidder Isaac this summer, the players with the highest transfer fee in the second to fifth place in the Premier League are Werz, Ekitic and Cesco, all of whom are transferred from the Bundesliga to the Premier League. The total transfer fee of these four people is as high as 300 million pounds, among which Werz and Ekitic both switch to Liverpool.

The Premier League's transfer fee expenditure exceeded 3 billion pounds this summer, setting a record for transfer window expenditure in previous years, and the Bundesliga has become one of the largest suppliers of Premier League players. Oliver Kahn is a little unacceptable: "For many people, this is normal now, but this is a signal for me. Our Bundesliga is too conservative and has forgotten how to take risks. The question is whether we want to continue to become a league that cultivates talents and then loses them, or want to create conditions for talents to stay."

As we all know, the "50+1" policy that the Bundesliga now pursues, restricts the consortium from acquiring Bundesliga clubs, and it is necessary to pay attention to the traditional value dominated by Bundesliga fans. Although Kahn did not directly call for the abolition of the "50+1" policy, he said that the current club structure means that it is difficult for the Bundesliga to change, and the entire league will not make bold decisions in the transfer window.

In fact, Bayern Munich coach Kompani was asked at a press conference last week that one of the target players could not wait for them to poach again next summer and agreed to the invitation from Newcastle United in advance, and lamented that all this was money.