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Originally Posted by demonrail666

By exciting I meant that Leipzig seem to have the financial resources (potentially at least) to build long-term - not just offering wages that'll make it harder for the likes of Bayern, et al, to pinch their best players but they may eventually even be in a position to out bid them for new players. It'll all depend on how much Red Bull wants to invest but I'm sure they have the money to really shake that league up more than Dortmund could.

that's i think a separate issue from the membership, and has more to do with uefa rules, which i really don't understand.

all german clubs have sponsors ranging from gazprom to tmobile to volkswagen, and there's plenty of money to thow around. funny enough wolfsburg started to decline after the diesel emissions scandal, not sure if that was related.

here's a list of the sponsors and money they pay and red bull isnt anyhwere near the top

http://www.ispo.com/en/companies/id_...-revenues.html

now i know the club has a lot more money than that but i dont understand how it gets funneled to it and how it works with uefa rules (i dont know those rules)

anyway, the complaints as i understand are not about the money per se but have more to do with how the club is run as a subsidiary of a beverage company for marketing purposes rather than a club proper with member-owners at its core.