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Barcelona, Bayern Munich & Possession That Doesn’t Mean Anything
The players Bayern Munich were missing – Bastian Schweinsteiger, who didn’t start, but did come on in the second half. The players Barcelona were missing? Xavi, Iniesta, Neymar, Fabergas, Pedro, Dani Alves, Busquets, Pique, Puyol, Victor Valdes, and that’s not it, not to mention their new head coach nowhere to be seen. Their streak of winning possession in matches, lasting more than five years is over, but it doesn’t really mean anything.
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On Barcelona, Tito Vilanova & Pep Guardiola Airing Out Dirty Laundry
For quite a few years, in a world that seemed to force soccer fans to choose sides in the Barcelona – Real Madrid classico wars, Barca always came out as the squeaky clean club, where everyone are friends, nice and moral. But Pep Guardiola seems to have a lot of feeling harbored against his former club, while Tito Vilanova himself, maybe part of the club’s wishes, attacked the man he used to work under.
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Bayern Munich – Mario Götze & Thiago Alcantara Raise Many Questions
There’s a good chance Bayern Munich are finally done adding players, but the arrivals of Mario Götze & Thiago Alcantara raise a lot of questions regarding the tactics Pep Guardiola is planning to use, and the future use and roles of Javi Martinez, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller, Arjen Robben and Mario Mandzukic.
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Bayern Munich – Mario Götze Creates a Complicated Situation
Last season’s Bayern Munich looked as close as possible to a perfect, or complete team. The arrival of Mario Götze certainly makes them stronger, but the position he plays in sure makes it quite difficult to predict how Bayern will line up next season, and what players will be the ones paying the price for the expensive new arrival.
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Why Did Mario Gotze Leave Dortmund for Bayern Munich?
In almost every league there’s one club that’s above the rest in terms of prestige, not to mention their financial abilities. Real Madrid are that kind of beacon for Latin players across Europe and on a smaller scale, Bayern Munich have been that kind of team in the Bundesliga. Which makes it a little bit easier to understand why Mario Gotze decided to sign with them, leaving a stunned Borussia Dortmund behind.
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Bayern Munich Keep Treating Jupp Heynckes Like a Second-Rate Manager
While this isn’t quite the situation going on at Palermo, where a manager can be fired and rehired three times in less than six months, but it’s weird to see the relationship between Jupp Heynckes, on his third tenure with Bayern Munich, being treated like an interim manager and nothing more.
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Real Madrid vs Barcelona – New Clasico Rulers
The current era in the Clasico rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid is pretty much defined by the moment Pep Guardiola became the head coach of Barcelona, changing the career trajectory of Lionel Messi. A season later Cristiano Ronaldo arrived, and Jose Mourinho a year after that. What was a Barca-dominated match up early on has taken a different direction in recent years.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Bayern Munich Want to Sign Luis Suarez
Now that Pep Guardiola is the new and official head coach at Bayern Munich (once the season ends), names from big clubs around Europe will start flying around as transfer targets. The first one? Luis Suarez of Liverpool.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Bayern Munich Going After Neymar
After securing the manager everyone wanted, Bayern Munich are going after a player interesting the same crowd.
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Foreign Managers of Bayern Munich
While Pep Guardiola isn’t the first foreign manager to take the position at Bayern Munich, he is the first person from Spain to take it.