Bayern are the most perfidious, predatory, pernicious club on earth. Think of a hybrid spoilt brat love child of Man United and Liverpool. On steroids.
This is what Bayern do:
* They regard any emerging German rival as a critical threat to their own dominance and accordingly snipe at them in the press endlessly and ruthlessly, criticising their coaching staff, their backroom staff, their club culture, and so on.
* They remind their rivals' key players - very openly - that really they should be at Bayern, or even will be at Bayern, sooner or later (a classic example of this was the pressure they exerted on Sebastian Deissler for rejecting them in favour of a move to Hertha, of all clubs... eventually though, they got their man). This indicates a policy of strengthening themselves whilst at the same time weakening major domestic threats and thereby maintaining their status as top dogs in Germany.
* They endlessly big themselves up in the German media, telling everyone that Bayern can only fail if they beat themselves. Thus if someone else is successful - like Dortmund, who had the sheer cheek to win the BL for the second year in a row last weekend - it's because Bayern lost focus, got distracted, didn't quite cope with all their injuries, etc, etc, etc. By no means was it because Dortmund are any good. That said, Dortmund's manager seems like he might know a thing or two about football which means he is automatically going to be on Bayern's next manager list, sooner or later, if not already.
* They seem to have some range of influence beyond Germany too, because UEFA's new oxymoron-esque "fair play" rules cater to the needs and circumstances of Bayern Munich more than any other single club in Europe. Basically, these new rules are a blueprint for indefinite and radically expanded domination by Bayern to the extent that, if fully implemented, even Man Utd, Barca, Milan and co will have a time of it competing with them.
So... You may say you hate Chelsea and what the Russian has done there. But it's NOTHING compared to the menace to competitive football that is Bayern Munich. Anyone on here wanting them to win so much as a toin coss has clearly no understanding of what they're really about.
