The usual off-season rant against that damn team from the south

FC Bayern Munich is the team you love to hate. They are Germany's hold the record for the most championships in football, I believe they are record-winning cup champions as well, they have the most money, they (at least most of the time) have the best players. And what is most important, they win their matches. And for a long time they won almost each and every one of those games by a very small margin. Something that led people to speak about the so called "Bayern-Dusel" (roughly translated as "Bayern's luck"). And, surprisingly they have to most "fans" in German football. People like me refer to those kinds of supporters as arrogant and not really in it for the beauty of the game. Those people simply like the most successful team. If they lived in Italy, they'd cheer for Juventus. France? Lyon. Spain? Most certainly Real Madrid, because Barcelona is too political. To cut a long story short, Bayern Munich supporters are the most ignorant, stupid and uncool bunch there is.

Another thing this club always does is buy players. And by saying that I mean buying players who played well over the past season, maybe even for a close rival in the race for the title. Bayern almost bought the whole of Karlsruher SC when they were performing well in the 90s. They bought Leverkusen's Ballack and Lucio in 2002, they bought Bremen defender Ismael in 2005, they then bought Hamburg defender van Buyten in 2006. All players having played really well in the previsous season.


So now they have gone after Miroslav Klose, Germany's top striker for the past five years. There had been a huge row over that particular transfer and it seemed only to be a matter of time until Klose announced that he moves to Munich.
Now it has been rumoured that Klose is unhappy in Bremen and he played horrible in the 2nd half of the season. Still I can't understand why people take the step and move to Bayern. Yes, they want to win championships, but Klose has proven that he can do that with Bremen (2004) as well. Why not go to a foreign country. Try your luck in England. That's what I call a challenge.

The season seems to be over before it even has begun. Bayern spent a total of € 57 Mio (Klose's transfer excluded because there was no sum mentioned, people talk about € 12 Mio) on top players as Toni and Ribery and they look like the next champion now. On the other hand it might be even more interesting to watch them fall. They lost so often over the course of the past season that it somehow lost its meaning when they lose. So maybe we can celebrate a loss by Bayern a lot more in the coming months