Gotze vs Reus

I'm not too sure. They seem to rotate a lot from what I can gather and I think Podolski gets games.

Personally, if I were to choose the side I'd try and fashion this into a starting 11 as it contains so many players that play well together, hence dropping Ozil:

Neur
Lahm Bastuber Hummels Shmelzer
Gundogan Schweinsteger
Muller Kroos Gotze
Reus

What a team that would be.

Wow!

That is a frighteningly good team, only Bayern and Dortmund players, pretty young too.

I'm actually just hearing that Bayern are apparently close to signing another player.

Young Sebastian Rode, a midfielder who plays for Eintracht. This would be a very strange move IMO considering the sheer numbers Bayern have competing for the two deeper midfield positions unless players like Tymoschuk leave. They also have two young players who are supposed to be quite talented apparently but I've not seen anything of them in Emre Can and Pierre Hojbjerg. Strange indeed.

Dortmund seem to have shown an interest as well and I think they'd be more of a sensible option for him.

Pep does like his midfielders.

Sadly Ferguson doesn't.

TRS theyve also got a young midfielder called mitchell weiser out on loan who is supposed to be a great talent

TRS, Bayern are basically the German Madrid. They just sign all the best players so other teams can't have them and young players that might get good.

They'll end up loaning out a few of those after they never get a look in and will eventually be sold to a midtable side.

They've done this for a while as far as I can gather and Madrid have been doing this for years!

It's such a muggy tactic.

Both are fantastic talents but we won't know until Gotze is at Bayern just how much of a part Klopp has played in his success - and how he copes at FC Hollywood without Klopps guidance.

TRS, Bayern are basically the German Madrid. They just sign all the best players so other teams can't have them and young players that might get good.

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I can't ever remember them doing it in such a fashion before though. The window isn't even officially opened yet and they could've all but secured 4 players.

True!

They're really making a statement on world football. That, thrashing Barca, pontentially winning the CL and appointing Pep.

It's looking pretty rosey in Bavaria. Fair play, I suppose. If you can do it then why not.

They're really making a statement on world football. That, thrashing Barca, pontentially winning the CL and appointing Pep.

It's looking pretty rosey in Bavaria. Fair play, I suppose. If you can do it then why not.

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Anyone else starting to think that Pep could have actual psychic powers?

He seems to have left Barcelona at more or less the right time and now he's joining Bayern at more or less the right time although he's going to have a lot to live up to if they go onto win the treble this season which they have a great chance of doing now.

Btw this is what happened in 1996/97.

Bundesliga: Bayern
German Cup: Stuttgart
Champions League: Dortmund

This season:

Bundesliga: Bayern
German Cup: Bayern v Stuttgart final
Champions League: Looking likely to be a Bayern v Dortmund final.