"I always remember going with Burnley to the Premier League. We got promoted to the Premier League and all of a sudden you have TV money coming in and it's 100m for promoted teams. And it [increases] for the other teams all the way to the top. So you go from a budget of 25-30m a year to all of a sudden having a budget of 120-130m for a promoted team, which would compete with the top six in the Bundesliga."
"At Burnley, we were competing on the market with Frankfurt and Wolfsburg for players and we had just come up. That's the reality. Sunderland are now buying players from Leverkusen and competing with AC Milan. That's just a financial reality. Now, when you have that 100m and you come into the Premier League, it means nothing because everybody else has got even more."
Bayern Munich completed signings including Jonathan Tah, Luis Diaz and Tom Bischof but suffered high-profile rejections for targets such as Florian Wirtz, Nico Williams and Nick Woltemade. Vincent Kompany linked player moves to the Premier League's financial advantage, noting massive TV revenue increases for promoted teams that transform budgets and market competitiveness. Kompany cited examples like Burnley competing with established Bundesliga clubs and Sunderland buying from Leverkusen while competing with major European clubs, arguing that the Premier League’s financial reality undermines parity and challenges the Bundesliga’s ability to remain competitive for top talent.
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