After twelve years the dominance has been broken!
Bayer Leverkusen celebrates the first championship in the club’s history and FC Bayern does not win the trophy for the first time since 2012. At that time, the Munich team remained completely without a title.
This horror scenario can still be averted this season with the Champions League triumph.
What happened after Bayern’s last league defeat?
After the 2:5 defeat in the cup final against Dortmund, the Bayern bosses decided on a transfer attack that was unrivaled in the Bundesliga. That without Christian Nerlinger (51), who had to leave as sports director after the season. His successor was Matthias Sammer (56).
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The then record purchase of Javi Martinez (35) came immediately for 40 million euros. The club thus secured a midfielder who was not so well-known until then, but who became a key player in the coming triple season. He was Jupp Heynckes’ absolute dream player!
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The record champions also brought Mario Mandzukic (13 million), Xherdan Shaqiri (12 million), Dante (5 million) and Claudio Pizarro (free transfer) to Munich. The signing of Martinez was the starting signal for Bayern to regularly invest large amounts of millions in transfers.
The short-term offensive after the disappointing 2012 season wasn’t everything back then. Over the course of the following season, the move from future triple coach Heynckes to Pep Guardiola was decided. A turning point in history!
The record champions also attacked BVB: In the summer of 2013, Mario Götze was bought away for 37 million euros, and Robert Lewandowski was also supposed to arrive that year. Borussia took a stand, but in 2014 the super striker (344 goals in 375 Bayern games) went to Munich for a free transfer.
Two Dortmund superstars played for Bayern, the biggest competitor was weakened and more expensive stars like Thiago (25 million euros) arrived.
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What’s happening now?
Almost all experts and fans expect Bayern to attack and counterattack again. President Herbert Hainer (69) made an announcement immediately after the Leverkusen championship: “FC Bayern’s goal is now: the bowl has to go back to Munich! See you in the new season.”
But will the counterattack be as successful this time as it was back then? And is it now happening to Leverkusen?
The fact is: Werkself stars have also become the focus of Bayern. DFB star Florian Wirtz (20) is often associated with the Munich team – he could become a hot topic by 2025 at the latest. There will also be a big change in the summer. Some stars are under scrutiny and the record champions are ready to invest a lot of money in new players.
This year it looks more like Bayer will be able to keep the team together (somewhat) at least this summer. Bayern were already looking into Leverkusen’s master coach Xabi Alonso (42) for this summer. He decided against becoming the successor to Thomas Tuchel (50) – and will stay in Leverkusen for another season…
2024-04-15 10:32:59
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