On The Continent: The Bundesliga returns, and how might the transfer market change?

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a drill: football is coming back. Well, some of it. Without any fans.

On today’s episode of On The Continent, we celebrate the Bundesliga’s upcoming return while acknowledging the need for continued caution. We also speak to FC Union Berlin's Christian Arbeit about how their players reacted to the news and what they've been doing throughout lockdown to best prepare themselves for its return.

We also discuss some of Fabio Paratici’s recent thoughts about player salaries and how the football transfer market may change drastically in the coming seasons. The likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona will be desperate for more high-profile transfer activity akin to what we've seen in the last few years, what with their respective selections of high-earning benchwarmers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Undercontinent, our weekly look at the big stories in football
0:09.2	from around Europe. I'm Luke Moore and I'm Andy Brassel.
0:15.3	Yes, indeed, you have read it correctly. The Bundesliga is now officially coming back. It
0:24.6	looks as though it will return behind closed doors, obviously, in the second half of this month.
0:30.3	Andy, you must be cockahook because I know I am.
0:35.2	Well, to have some actual football will be nice, but I think there has to be some caution in this,
0:43.2	because whereas the Bundesliga is coming back first for a reason, because not only because of
0:53.1	the way they've dealt with the spread of the pandemic and the fact that certainly in UK terms,
1:00.3	they're a little bit further ahead of us. It's the fact that they've got a plan locked down
1:06.7	very early on in terms of health, safety, hygiene. But as I wrote in my Guardian column this week,
1:16.4	there's one thing having a plan and there's another thing sticking to it. And that's been
1:22.0	clear with a few things this week, I think. Obviously, there's the Salomon Kalu thing that
1:28.4	will come to in a little bit. I'm sure. I mean, there have been 10 positive tests so far out of
1:38.6	1,274, which the DFL, the German League, have said, well, that shows that our screening process is
1:48.4	is working. It's how it's dealt with from there. And again, something will come on to in a bit.
1:55.5	And something that has made nailing down an exact date, and it looks like later today,
2:01.3	that exact date will be announced. It looks like it will be the 15th or 16th of May that weekend,
2:06.9	anyway. It's the fact that it's never been, as I think is now clear to people who've been
2:14.2	looking into this story or following this story. It's not just Angela Merkel saying,
2:19.8	that's great, we're happy with this. It's the fact that you've got to get 16 federal states to agree.
2:25.3	And in matters of health and public safety, particularly, it's up to them to pronounce. So there's
2:33.5	had to be some sort of group agreement, which has made it a little tough. So for example, when you
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