Seb Stafford-Bloor

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1,082 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Tifo Football Podcast · Brighton demolish Arsenal, Man City are top & Spurs lose again · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

and they

Yeah, they lost 5-0 to Freiburg.

They lost again at the weekend.

They've lost 3-4 twice.

They, yeah, they look hopeless.

Oh, dear.

They might be about to appoint Alex Blasin, the former St.

Pauli head coach, very, very good coach, who should make them better.

But Gladbach again.

Sucking the drain, possibly.

The thing is, right, the reason this is an interesting point is because the Bundesliga needs its big historical teams, its traditional Vereens, as the Germans would say, because the league needs brands, right?

league which is dominated by Munich, it's great to have Elfersburg and Heidenheim and Darmstadt and these teams coming up, Paderborn, who got their first win.

This weekend, but you need the big clubs with their history and their fan bases and can ill afford to lose a Gladbach in the same way that they could ill afford to lose Schalke for a couple of years or they got relegated

be competitive.

and Gladbach have got work to do.

And also they've, whilst, and this is a general point about Bundesliga, a lot of German clubs are very good at selling players, right?

They're very good at identifying talent and selling them to the Premier League or higher up the Bundesliga or wherever.

They're not as good at maintaining the quality of the team on the pitch.

And so what you get, a kind of situation where you have diminishing returns,

So you keep selling players, you buy younger players to replace them, but then you don't keep the younger player long enough for that player to become a difference maker at the same standard.

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