Given how fast things can alter in baseball, irony is popular. However, also by soccer standards it's a shock when one makes a deeply philosophical record simply to act against it within a matter of days. Last week, Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness lamented there being fully a not enough competition in the Bundesliga that's include his team and Dortmund blowing away all competition on the last few months. Talking to KickerA( English edition here), he said: "There is a large drop in the competition of the group and we cannot be pleased with that. "My instinct informs me that not totally all is right at the moment," he added, quoting blow-out wins and record-breaking streaks as prospective killers of fan interest and international impression of the Bundesliga. Hoeness even claimed that "The major clubs have to back off, even if this results in issues on the global stage." Whether Hoeness' concern was genuine or pure crocodile holes, there's a striking paradox that they got just a week before BildAreported that Bayern were set to sign Mario Gotze from Dortmund (English version here). The deal was confirmed by both groups in the hours that followed: Bayern decided to spend the player's a37 million buy-out clause, leaving Dortmund helpless to avoid an exchange. The consequences of Gotze's move to Munich will be felt not merely at Bayern and Dortmund, but will reverberate across the Bundesliga all together. For Dortmund, the devastating loss of such an irreplaceable person is just the start of their issues. As yet, the Ruhr side had done very well to fend off attention from other clubs in their star players. While Nuri Sahin and Shinji Kagawa were offered in successive months, the likes of Gotze, Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Lukasz Piszczek and more were retained despite attention from other top clubsa'all the aforementioned set pen to paper on extensions until 2016 or later. The floodgates could be opened by the sale of Gotze to a rival club at the Westfalenstadion. Robert Lewandowski has established he'll not continue his contractAbeyond 2014,Aand Gotze's approaching travel could also affect Ilkay Gundogana'who recently said it is "very likely" that he'll prolong his stay beyond 2015a'to reconsider signing a fresh offer. Gotze's shift may in all likelihood effect Marco Reus to follow along with an identical course. The 23-year-old's contract runs until 2017, but in accordance with various reports he has a buy-out condition in the total amount of a30 million that takes effect in 2014 (Express) or perhaps a provision that allows him to leave in 2015 for a35 million (Bild). Though notably less of a steal at an identical price as Gotze, Reus' offer undercuts his true worth. Given the situations of Lewandowski, Reus and Gundogan, and following the sales of Sahin, Kagawa and now Gotze, Dortmund certainly are a step from becoming the Bundesliga's Arsenal: A financially well-run club that, centered on a couple of sales, produced a hazardous photograph for participants as a "stepping stone" and as a result will always be in circumstances of transitiona'never fully effective at reaching their potential with a frequent core of players.AGotze's sale may be the tipping point for this change and, unfortunately for BVB, they've no power to stop it. For Bayern, Gotze's signing is really a statement of intention that confirms their position in German football: they're and always will be the most effective club in the Bundesliga, and their capacity and willingness to kill off any opposition has and always will make them the most hated club in Germany. The team lost a great deal of pride as Dortmund won back-to-back Bundesliga games and humiliated them in the DFB-Pokal final a year ago, and also defeat them to the signing of Reus. But virtually every good German ability ultimately plays for Bayern, and this indicates Gotze will soon be no exception. Hoeness may or may perhaps not lose sleep over the Bundesliga's competition descending to a level on par with that of the Scottish Premier League, but regardless, Bayern is a definitely better team in the long term. Gotze has already been one of the brightest stars in world football and is nowhere near the control of his potential. A long-term future involving Gotze, Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller, Xherdan Shaqiri and any of numerous potential later improvements in strike is really a very bright one indeed. For Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben, the future at Bayern seems rather dim. The Germany international has rarely performed this season, and if Pep Guardiola uses Gotze as his heart forward, Gomez slides to third selection behind the youngster and Mario Mandzukic. Given that his agent has announced that his client is unhappy with his current situation at Bayern, he certainly is going to be bought. Currently a backup, Robben will have little invest the Bayern startup if Gotze becomes involved. He's the next in a range of players ahead of the Dutchman, if the 20-year-old is employed in midfield. He will need to operate with players much less selfish than Robben if he is ever to report with the prolificacy expected of a center forward, actually if Gotze is used as a striker. Gotze has the potential to score many goals, but when he's to reach his most readily useful, he will do it through link-up play with the midfieldersa'not as a poacher. Going to Bayern will help Gotze achieve the entire extent of his potential, and more promote his comparisons to Lionel Messi. The Argentine was often a significant ability, but Pep Guardiola transformed him from a winger who was section of a healthy Barcelona strike to the player he's today: Arguably the very best individual attacker in the annals of world soccer, and one who directly plays a role in more than half his team's goals. Messi plays almost every moment of every game because by the look of Guardiola's process, he spends about two thirds of every match at walking speed. He doesn't protect, and because he puts in little effort otherwise, he's always new and may concentrate only on scoring and encouraging targets. At Dortmund, Gotze is required to protect, to complete a great many other tough tasks and follow the ball around the frequency. He works an average of 11.72 km per 90 minutes in the Bundesliga, and that amount drastically increases in the Champions League. His work charge makes him a much better person, but protecting isn't as exciting as scoring and also requires he be rested more often than Messi. Gotze may or may never achieve on the level of Messi, but if there's one coach who can bring the utmost effective out of him, it is Guardiola. And needless to say at Bayern, the gamer is guaranteed a reliable long-term potential with a solid core of players around him. In conclusion, Gotze's proceed to Munich will have mixed results on Dortmund, Bayern, an amount of players and the Bundesliga as a whole. It'll make Bayern even stronger and will help Gotze become his absolute best. It'd rather brutally mean the end of Gomez and Robben at Bayern, and potentially destroy Dortmund as a competitive number in the long-term, on the flip side. For the Bundesliga, lovers can go back to writing it down as a foregone conclusion: Gotze's sale, it is evidence that the German top flight is and always will undoubtedly be Bayern's. If Hoeness doesn't know the way this really is so, he's not looking. Follow Clark Whitney on Twitter
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