Gegenpressing: The Bundesliga Podcast

Finally! A football podcast that isn’t about the premiere league! Love your podcast. IMO, the Bundesliga is more interesting than the other leagues. People underestimate how good the teams are.

As a Bundesliga fan in America, there are not a lot of English speaking resources for us to interact with our favorite league. And this used to be a great way to do so, but I’m not sure what it is in the last year, but the quality of this podcast has decreased, and the bias and negativity has definitely increased. I do wish there were some more objective views on games and a bunch of different situations, it seems that it’s all now guided by Manu’s biases.

The hosts are knowledgeable and a lot of people like the show, but I just can’t anymore. They have certain agendas, players, and teams they like, and if you disagree with them they like to make you feel stupid, attack you, and then gaslight you when you call them out on it. While there is extra content if you pay for a subscription, the Substack community is not a welcoming space at all unless you subscribe to the cult of Manu, i.e., praise the teams and players he likes. Also, despite being insiders, they are often flat wrong, like when they claim certain players will sign X or Y contract, and then they don’t. There are other online spaces and podcast with just as valuable content for free. Plus, I’m tired of paying money to hate myself every time I interact with Manu. I can just go sit in a dark room for free if I want to feel bad about life. Fine for some people but no longer for me.

Love the show, missed you guys all summer. Glad you’re back.