I thumb up everything you said. While it wasn't mentioned in your comments, nor mine, the recent downfall of the Bundesliga dinos happenned at a moment when the whole football gotha started to make really big bucks and the gap between good and the best teams became appearing to all. Dortmund jumped in in time while they were the less likely to succeed among BL teams. I would have given Hertha more chances to be where Dortmund is now.
Not only Merder, Hamburger and Shitgart missed the train but they will face the dire consequences in the forthcoming years too and they suffer the disadvantage of seeing Scheisske and Zerokusen erase the little credibility their league has, damaging potential TV contracts abroad. I don't foresee the end of the bad days for any of these clubs anytime in the near future. I would be actually happy if Werder and Hamburg go down since it would mean that teams à la Augsburg currently in the 2. BL might bring fresh ideas and tactical dispositions to the 1. BL.
Haha, I like the way you call the clubs. Fitting
But yes, the money thing is another huge problem. Too many idiots sitting in the boards and treat the clubs like economic companies, looking for a huge cut to their own wallets. Those people like in Hamburg, Bremen, Stuttgart have nothing to do with football to understand that the base of the economic success is the sport itself. Expanding isnt a bad thing, but it has to be done in context of the sport and the clubs capacity. hamburg for example completely missed to reform the board and the club. The result is this downfall. The we have this bullshit business model of selling promising players for more money instead of keeping them and build a squad around them. And I doubt that the clubs are properly investing into their youth, besides Stuttgart. And they are afraid of investors because they have to traded in some shares. This stubborn and archaic acting is why the clubs dont progress and why there looking like companies instead of sport clubs.