The thing I find incredibly hard to believe that after what 15 years of being a manager and doing things a certain way that he is all of a sudden going to do things totally different?
Yet you say
you wouldn't "discount" him signing a "big player"... which seems to contradict what you are telling others
they should discount.
A cynic might think that you're getting your retaliation in early, by hedging your bets, so that you don't look like you're flip-flopping if and when it happens A-Zed. Thankfully I'm not cynical.
Personally I, (and
this is only my opinion; I certainly won't claim to know Jürgen as much as others appear to), believe that...
#1: financial constraints at Dortmund meant Jürgen
had to build a team on the cheap [not that any German teams paid much, for players at that time anyway] then sell it's best parts;
#2: that, given any option, he wouldn't have wanted to and
3#: such is his quality that, if didn't have to sell, rather than the two - he could have won title, after title, after title, with them.
Jürgen had the perfect storm at Dortmund - a top manager finding top players (
amongst the very many he signed) at a time when the big money team, Bayern, had taken their eye of the ball. All of which come to an end, in glorious fashion, as soon as Bayern started flexing their muscle and buying quality again. As
good great as he is; Jürgen just couldn't compete... no manager of a selling team can.
I hope and trust that Jürgen,
without the handicap of financial constraints, can right those wrongs here; starting this summer.
We are F***ing minted - anyone who says we aren't is a liar. We were told that profits would be reinvested into playing staff yet now... we have to buy the notion that the best we can expect is £33m + players sales?