Matthias Sammer doesn’t think that professional footballers are asked to do too much. Instead, the TV pundit looks at the squads of the top teams with excitement
For Matthias Sommer, the summer was far too long. Of course, there was the European Championships and then the Olympics and in between, for example, Wimbledon or whatever else, but somehow the 1996 European champion didn’t know “what to watch” in between and afterwards. No Bundesliga, no Champions League, no happy Sammer: “It was boring as hell. I just love soccer.”
And that’s why the Prime Video expert got into a rage a few times when he spoke about the Champions League reform during a Prime appointment at the “25hours” hotel in Munich on Wednesday.
Sammer sees no overloading of the players
Sammer is “only partially” able to understand the point that players would play at their limit due to the new mode with a league system and at least two additional match days: “It’s in there, it’s in the tank,” the external advisor to Borussia Dortmund is certain. “What are the best teams in Europe trying to do? That they can pay their players. They want to generate a bit more money with the changed competition, but do less at the same time? That can’t be right. I believe that this change will not kill the players. “
He repeatedly spoke about his past as a player, and that he sometimes didn’t even have a week’s summer vacation himself. “As a player, you can’t demand that the club should give you 18, 20 or 22 million euros, but at the same time you would like to have fewer games and more vacation,” Sammer continued. “You can’t take more and give less. “
The 56-year-old is much more looking forward to “the change, the changes. I can’t find anything critical why I shouldn’t like the change.” Sammer is therefore curious to see how the top teams adapt their squads. “You have to think about that. The good ones will find answers, the bad ones will resign themselves,” he says, while also endorsing the new Club World Cup with 32 teams next summer. “I’d much rather see competitions like that than test matches of any kind at three o’clock in the morning.
Because, according to Sammer: “Bayern, Dortmund and co. would fly to Asia, the USA or Australia” in the summer anyway “to play some summits and cups there. ”
