Focusing on the Champions League too much and having problems in the Bundesliga on one hand isn't very ideal for Dortmund at all. Dortmund's main target must always be to finish the season in top 4 at worst. Because the Champions League is like a tradition for Dortmund as they can normally finish the season in this area easily.
Missing UCL would be affecting the financial condition of dortmund. We have seen that many teams used UCL as their source of income as well. So, that makes sense for dortmund to put UCL as the main target to be reached this season. It's quite impossible for dortmund to take the trophy this season caused by bayern munich and leverkusen are leading the bundesliga this time. These team have big gap to the its competitors like dortmund or even leipzig. It makes sense if dortmund was also decreasing its target from trophy to the UCL spot.
It's caused by the competition is also very strict right now. it makes dortmund needs to put sense target to be achieved at the end of season. Dortmund is still playing in the UCL as well.
But right now things are going really badly for them about this topic. While Stuttgart and Leipzig are performing much better Dortmund will need to work much harder than this. As there is a long time to go for next round games in the Champions League Dortmund had better work on their weaknesses in the Bundesliga.
yeah that's indeed, but dortmund is not yet losing against those clubs. Stuttgart and leipzig have consistent performance compared to the dortmund but we are still far away from the end of season. There is still enough time for dortmund to chase those clubs.
Terzic is working so hard to make the club will be going up. Dortmund is still in the process to rebuilding the club. There will be amazing performance to come from dortmund to climb up asap.