Lars Ricken

Bales over a kick.

Lars Ricken's goal, if we're going back to the 90s, 97.

Moments that make the competition what it has become.

I don't understand why people feel the need to mess with these things.

And we kind of saw around the press box too, people just shaking their heads.

We saw the images of Lars Ricken kind of falling back in his seat thinking, what's next? At that moment, the press guy from Dortmund came over and we had a brief chat and I said, what do you know? Let me know what you know.

And then not long after that, we got the statement that he'd gone to hospital with, I guess, cardiovascular, respiratory issues, maybe the best translation.

I think I exactly find out what the best translation is, you know, to be completely metaphorically accurate.

If they can add to that, points on the board against top four top five teams like they have done today although the circumstances weren't ideal then yeah then who knows if that's not the case and they end up seeming to just be treading water and just moving on the spot a little bit then I think I mentioned this on the chat as well I think a point will come not immediately maybe not even this year but a point will inevitably have to come where The movements have been made in the hierarchy at Borussia Dortmund, with Ole Buk being given responsibility to revamp the squad in his image.

Lars Ricken is giving him that authority and that space to do that.

But if he's going to be bringing in creative, progressive, attacking players like Caretzas, Constantelias, Fehrman, and giving time to the likes of Waneri and Samuel Inazio, if you're bringing in these sorts of players, at some point, Ole Buk might start thinking, I don't have to coach to get the best out of these players that I want for this squad.

I think at that point, that discussion is going to have to take place at Borussia Dortmund.

I think that is the big test that he has to face.

Can he develop young players? Is he willing to develop young players? And is he willing to...

You know, they just also made changes to the academy, right? I forgot the name of the guy who was taking Lars Ricken's job, which is doubly embarrassing because I just interviewed him as well and spoke to him.

But, you know, that person made the big point of saying that they want

then went through the roof.

But regardless of what the arguments were, one way or the other, Ole Bok and Lars Ricken had their... their figures in mind of how high they wanted to go on their mallet and decided, no, they weren't going to go for it.

And so they quite concretely and quite decisively took a step back away from that, like you said.

So I think that was an impressive way of doing business.