Superclub BVB?

 PLUS

= PROFIT???

According to recent reports, Deutsche Bank is interested in investing in Borussia Dortmund.  The point here is, of course, to make money (the point is always to make money), but there is also a definite interest in turning BVB into a more evenly-matched competitor for perennial Bundesliga superpower Bayern München.  As a Dortmund fan, I am mostly excited about this news, but there's a part of me that's a bit upset at the same time.

One the one hand, winning is definitely more fun than losing, not having to worry about going through another financial crisis as in the early 2000s would be great, being able to consistently rise to the upper levels of both Bundesliga and Champions League would be awesome, and being able to retain all of our talent without it being poached by bigger, richer teams (especially Bayern) would be super fantastic.

On the other hand, I feel like there's a certain element of pride in the fact that the Watzke-Klopp era has turned BVB into a legitimate European contender without having to rely on some cash-flooded owner who can just solve all the problems with a dumpster full of money. (Watzke seems to agree, commenting to Die Welt that "I feel that the typical BVB fan wants to feel like part of a community and not a customer of Sheik X or Oligarch Y.")  And while there's a lot of romance in playing the David role and knocking down the Goliaths, there's significantly less fairy tale to beating a giant when you're also a giant.  As a fan of Real Madrid in La Liga, going into the Champions League final this year brought more feelings of "damn, I am going to be so mad if we don't win this" than the "oh... my... gourd-thisiscrazyawesome-Ican'tbelieveweactuallymadeitthisfar-holycrapcanyoubelievewemightactuallywinthis?! (!!?!???!!!)" feeling that came with Dortmund's run to the finals last year.

Then again, the common wisdom is that Europe will be increasingly dominated by the financial might of a handful of superculbs, so the only way to keep competing consistently is to become a superclub yourself.  So if the opportunity presents itself, shouldn't you take it?

Of course the deal may fall apart and none of this speculation will be relevant at all, so for now we'll have to wait and see.

What do you think?  Would a major investment from DB be good for Borussia Dortmund?  For the Bundesliga?  How would you feel if your team were presented with the opportunity to seriously elevate their financial firepower to a level they've never had before?