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Originally Posted by bababui
Those Eastern teams seem to be the victim of a change in the political winds. Monchengladbach is a mystery to me.
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Monchengladbach is also a mystery to people who try to spell it.
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Originally Posted by bababui
Ajax is a double mystery because 10 years ago they were one of the worlds best teams with a great youth ptogram. How did it all go so wrong?
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Money. Or to be more exact, money from the big teams in Spain, Italy, Germany, and England to lure away all their best young stars.
Money is also the reason for Dynamo Dresden's fall - although that is down to the relative disparity between GDP between the former East Germany and West Germany.
There is only one former East German team in the Bundesliga - Energie Cottbus, and only three more in 2. Bundesliga - Hansa Rostock, Carl Zeiss Jena and Erzgebirge Aue.