Football Manager 2018: 10 Challenging Teams You Will Need To Use

8. Hertha BSC

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It seems ridiculous that a city as sprawling as Berlin hasn't ever produced a truly great football team. Germany’s biggest city has never been a true power base in European football, with Nurnberg and Schalke dominating the domestic league before its wartime split, and Bayern Munich growing into the all-conquering powerhouse they are today as early as the 1970s.

The Stasi-sponsored Berliner Dynamo were extremely successful in the old East German football system, but the last time a Berlin side won a unified, all-German title came in 1931. As the city’s only top flight club, Hertha BSC have the best chance of ending that drought, but doing so will be extremely difficult.

Bayern’s stranglehold on the Bundesliga seems unbreakable, RB Leipzig’s stunning rise could well continue next season, and Borussia Dortmund should be re-energised from last term’s disappointing league campaign. Hertha finished sixth last term, and their gigantic, 75,000-seater stadium is a tremendous asset. They’re a real sleeping giant in a number of ways, but a lack of funds will likely make breaking into the Champion’s League spots tricky.

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