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Who counts in Joe Thomlinson's never-sold Dortmund XI?

A hypothetical team featuring Haaland and Bellingham has viewers debating omissions and whether loan players qualify.

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If Borussia Dortmund NEVER Sold A Player XI 🔥

Achraf Hakimi's eligibility is almost as much of a talking point as the team itself. Beneath Joe Thomlinson's "If Borussia Dortmund NEVER Sold A Player XI 🔥", viewers ask whether a player who spent his Dortmund spell on loan belongs in a lineup built around never selling anyone.

That is a useful wrinkle in Joe's football thought experiment: keeping every departure sounds simple until you have to define the rules. Other viewers argue for Robert Lewandowski and Marco Reus, suggest Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the left, and request a Brighton version. The Dortmund upload has passed 405,000 views, comfortably the biggest audience among his five new videos and the channel's most active video right now.

James Allcott joined Joe for "Building The Best \"NON-BIG 6\" XI (vs. James Allcott)", taking squad selection beyond the traditional Premier League heavyweights. Their positional shortlist runs from Jordan Pickford and Bart Verbruggen in goal to Adam Wharton in midfield and Jean-Philippe Mateta up front. It drew the week's next-largest new audience.

Joe also built a tallest-player XI and ranked Premier League managers before turning to geography. "The BEST Paris Born Only XI Right Now! 🇫🇷" includes names such as Mbappé, Saliba, Konaté and Kanté, extending its birthplace rule to the suburbs. Only hours into its run, it already supplies the channel's second-largest daily video audience.

Subscribers stayed unchanged over the week, while today's channel viewing is below its usual level. Nearby in subscriber size, McKallaster had a smaller viewing week and MoreGinge was especially quiet. Joe's particular source of activity remains that Dortmund selection, where deciding who qualifies is part of the entertainment.

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What viewers say

Can you really count Hakimi if he was only there on loan? He was never Dortmund's player to sell anyway 🤔
@ALG97_0See it on YouTube
I would have swapped pulisic with aubameyang at the left side , eventhough pulisic was so good at dortmund at that time.
@arjunsivakumar333See it on YouTube
Third attempt asking for a ‘If Brighton never sold a player’ XI
@TheMunchguySee it on YouTube

3 more comments

Dortmund never sold the players on loan, so you can’t use them, as per your opening statement.
@GamingKavSee it on YouTube
It’s Aubameyang at LW and Lewandowski at ST
@tomek78910See it on YouTube
What about hummels?
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