What in the WORLD can stop Bayern from yet another Bundesliga? Bribery?

I am still searching for a way in which Bayern do not end up as Bundesliga winners. Perhaps somehow, by some kind of fluke or nature, they will start losing games miraculously?

Dortmund yet again dropped points, and it does look that they ought to finish in the top four at least, but with regards to offering a realistic challenge to Bayern for the title, I have to be brutally honest and respond with a firm: NEIN!


I've repeatedly said that it's squads that win titles and not just teams. A season is a long marathon that can equate to almost fifty games if you include all the cup competitions. Bayern are a club that actively seek to win the treble every season. They can afford to do that because their squad is one of the most talented in the world. The only other club that can compare are PSG. Some would try and say Barcelona and Madrid, but I don't count Jese or Munir as players of any real worth to me.

The players that Bayern can bring in off the bench could get into most first teams anywhere else. That is what Leverkusen, Dortmund and Wolfsburg have to contend with and always in the long run, it's the team that can replace quality with quality when injuries and fatigue mount up that end up carrying that trophy at the end of the season.

It has always been my hope that somehow, someway, Bayern would be challenged for this crown. I don't know about any of you, but I see no point in watching a league where there is little doubt on who the winner will be. The whole point in tuning in every week, is to see how the season will unfold with regards to the title-winner. Of course, the battle for Europe and relegation is exciting, but the goal of every team in any league is to win it. For a club like Darmstadt, that is not a realistic goal, but if they found themselves ten points ahead with two months to go, then their focus would be on winning the title...not giving up and already unfastening the cork on the wine in celebration of beating relegation.


With Bayern, there is that air of inevitability when they walk onto a pitch. It's similar to Juventus in previous years and Inter after the Calciopoli scandal. Teams that play them have that inferiority complex, and expect to lose. Once that mindset creeps in, half the game is already won before the referee blows the whistle to start the game. When you have to also contend with Lewandowski, Costa, Robben, Gotze and Muller who can all score goals when they feel like it, this is where Ethan Hunt needs to given call to assist.


What in the world can stop Bayern?








Apart from some sort of bribery and corruption, Bayern will be Bundesliga winners. They usually hit a slump after they have secured the title. Before then, they are a German steamroller and they can beat you in a multitude of ways. They can smack you open by five goals, or edge out a close game where they have been outplayed and ought to lose.

Dortmund have made a very good start to the season and mathematically are still in the hunt, just as Wolfsburg are as well. But when we hit March, and five points becomes seven, eight or even eleven...it will be the same old story. Bayern will be able to grind those wins, and Dortmund or Wolfburg will drop points if key players are missing through suspension or injury.

This leaves me with another question; do Bayern fans have any true satisfaction to these victories that come at such ease?

This is why I have been more fond of the World Cup. It's one of the toughest competitions in the world to win. When you look at what Germany did, and the journey they went on before Gotze's amazing winner, you could feel the difficulty. They had to really dig in and get those wins. Changing formation and their approach as the competition went on. I don't see that degree of difficulty for Bayern, PSG or Juventus (well, last season at least.)



For the sake of competition, because the Bundesliga would benefit greatly from it, I do hope Dortmund and Wolfsburg can keep it close till at least April. The league is one of the best to watch with some truly great games and some very good players that people just don't talk enough about. It would be so much better if you had an actual title race on top of that. Then, a lot more people would actually tune into the Bundesliga and watch the very high standard of football that gets played, with an emphasis on attack and entertaining the watching public.


I hope....



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