If it's possible, Bayern look even stronger this year
European champs set to dominate their domestic league again.
It’s impossible to look past Bayern Munich. Pep has taken
over as manager, they signed their only domestic challenger’s star player, and
they won it all last season.
By adding Mario Gotze (from Borussia Dortmund) and
Thiago Alcantara (from Barcelona), they added two quality young midfielders to
strengthen a team that really didn’t have many areas to improve. By binning off Mario Gomez to Fiorentina, they are going to
miss someone to grab 20+ tap-ins a season – pretty sure that Robert Lewandowski
will get that task next summer (once Bayern again buy Dortmund’s best player).
At the risk of being controversial (!), German football is
looking quite weak. Yes, the Champions League final was between two Bundesliga
teams last season, Bayern were amazing (especially when they schooled
Barcelona) and Dortmund have some fantastic young players and also made a
couple of good signings. But who else is there?
Bayer Leverkeusen and Dortmund both finished over 25 points
behind Bayern last season. Schalke 04 got the 4th Champions League
place, yet they only had just over half the points that Bayern did. It’s hard
to see how anyone below that could even figure in title contention.
The German and European champions only lost 1 game last
season, and even though they will probably not be as good this year, get your
money on them to win it again (not that I suggest/endorse any type of gambling
– I don’t waste drinking money).
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