The tradeoff fans are actually voting on
What 50+1 protects is not romantic tradition for its own sake, it is a governance structure that makes it structurally harder to raise ticket prices, take on reckless debt, or sell the club's identity to the highest bidder without member consent. What it costs is the kind of unlimited external capital that has reshaped the competitive hierarchy of the Premier League and La Liga.
German fans have, so far, kept choosing the tradeoff. The Kind ruling and the Leipzig workaround show the fight is not theoretical, it plays out club by club, and the DFL's answer has consistently been that access to a majority vote is not for sale.
