Friday, August 13, 2010

Germany: Bundesliga Season Preview

Even after an offseason of inactivity, Bayern Munich remains the team to beat in the Bundesliga. Bayern managed to hang on to all of their stars – including Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Bastian Schweinsteiger, and Thomas Mueller. In addition, Bayern brought back Toni Kroos from loan and promoted promising youngster David Alaba up from the reserves.

The onus remains on the rest of the league to catch up with the champions. As such, no team has strengthened enough to really challenge Bayern Munich – at least according to this column (which happened to be spot on with predicting the Leverkusen demise last spring).

Here is a breakdown of the teams by their chances for the next season.

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