This was in the summer of 2017. World champion Germany, three years after a resounding 1-7 victory over Brazil and the World Cup, also won the Confederations Cup, and the “small” teams also won the European Hopefuls Championship. Managers’ eyes were on its international players, young and old, as well as the domestic league’s diamond-studded Bundesliga.

Six years have passed since then, a double defeat by Nazionale Mannschaft at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, a failure at the Euro and last year, Bayern’s Champions League elimination in the Final 8 in Portugal, but the wheel has turned again.

German football has once again become a magnet for foreign fans, managers and players, presenting on the one hand an extremely – and unexpectedly – ​​football-quality competitive environment with unpredictable results and protagonists, but also a lot of “diamonds” that make agents rub their hands and the richest European clubs to look across the Rhine for new talent instead of France, which in previous years fed the teams of England, Spain and Italy at an unprecedented rate.

This year the Bundesliga is experiencing one of the most interesting seasons, in contrast to the previous ones, when Bayern cleared the title ahead of schedule and everyone was looking for a second place. Union Berlin’s terrific start to silver, the instability of Bayern now gone from Julian Nagelsmann to Thomas Tuchel in terms of their technical lead, the World Cup factor that … shuffled the deck, and a revived Dortmund of the post-Haaland era, set very beautiful environment.

New talent is increasingly attracting the attention of top clubs.

Europa League winner Eintracht, the new cannon of the German national team, that is, the now grown-up Niklas Vilkrug from Werder Bremen (16 goals, 5 assists in 26 matches), but also Freiburg, which has become one of the biggest surprises in Europe, eliminating ” Bayern from the German Cup, they added… to the attraction of this season in Germany, which has always been famous for its high number of goals per match and full stadiums.

But it is not the dense Bundesliga and the open cup that attract foreign clubs and agents. It’s the increased quality of young players and the frequent use of German teams as… testing grounds for talent from other countries.

This is how we see the best, in the opinion of many, England player in the recent World Cup, Jude Bellingham, playing not in the Premier League at 19, but in Dortmund, and considered the summer apple of Erid.

We still have Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala, 20, valued at €110m, and Manchester United are eyeing Leverkusen’s Jeremy Freebong, while his 19-year-old teammate Florian Wirtz is being offered by Manchester City for €100m. million euros.