@gerd: It is not a question about liking Magath or not, but this way to handle a football team destroys every club sooner or later. I am not a big fan of Wolfsburg, but not because of Magath or VW, I simply don't like the club itself. But the same goes for many other (German) clubs, I don't like Hamburg or Hertha for example, but cannot give arguments, why. Simply a feeling from the inside. And the fact that Wolfsburg won the title that year wasn't really because they were strong, it was more due to the fact that the rest of league was really weak in the second part of the season.
For the "traditional clubs": To be honest, I give a sh*t about this term as I hate the word "tradition" itself, it is simply stupid to do something, "because we always did". I just think using money from the economy shouldn't be pumped (and surely not in such large sums) into football (players). There are many many much more important problems in the world, but seeing what happens over at City or Wolfsburg is a disgrace. By the way, I'd recommend to take Hoffenheim from this list, in my eyes they are really the victim of propaganda. They are not some club I like, but they aren't buying the whole world elite of player to play at their stadium. Dietmar Hopp's only larger transfer was Babel and the rest were younger players that didn't cost that much, in this case I really think it is jealous behaviour of other fans.
@PLF: I don't think VW is too ambitious, I mean they are sponsoring this club since they founded it, that isn't a question about ambitions. It is just the fact that Magath buys and buys and buys and VW gives him the money for this, that is what I criticize. And we7god's lists shows pretty clear that Magath isn't something what can be called a conservative trading coach. To be honest: Most of Magath's titles were won with Bayern and we know he didn't buy there so much as in recent times. What did he win since leaving Munich? One title with Wolfsburg and that's it. That is nothing to call him a "top coach".
