It is likely that they will win the Bundesliga again. If they retain the cl that would mean they would have been in 4 finals in the last 5 years and won 2. Where would you rank them in terms of Greatness? Greater than Pepcelona?

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unlaid eggs

Hapless_Hans wrote:unlaid eggs

We missed you Idris.

No. Barca were better.

Best modern team ever imo. Winning back-to-back CLs would be a first in the modern era and 4 out of 5 finals is insane.

M99 wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:unlaid eggs

We missed you Idris.

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please let's not have this discussion now.

sportsczy wrote:Best modern team ever imo.  Winning back-to-back CLs would be a first in the modern era and 4 out of 5 finals is insane.

Pepcelona:

They would have to be up there. I mean back to back trebles? sheeeeeet gotta respect that if it happens.

they won't win CL

Valkyrja wrote:they won't win CL

As usual your input is top class.

notsrs

Who will win it then? Madrid??

jibers wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:they won't win CL

As usual your input is top class.

notsrs

Who will win it then? Madrid??

yes

Valkyrja wrote:

jibers wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:they won't win CL

As usual your input is top class.

notsrs

Who will win it then? Madrid??

yes

Do you think Madrid are better than Bayern?

jibers wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:

jibers wrote:As usual your input is top class.

notsrs

Who will win it then? Madrid??

yes

Do you think Madrid are better than Bayern?

Were Chelsea better than Bayern?

Madrid are Madrid... we don't compare ourselves to anyone else

Zealous wrote:

jibers wrote:

Valkyrja wrote:yes

Do you think Madrid are better than Bayern?

Were Chelsea better than Bayern?

Drogba >>

jibers wrote:

Zealous wrote:

jibers wrote:Do you think Madrid are better than Bayern?

Were Chelsea better than Bayern?

Drogba >>

So Drogba > Bayern

So Chelsea beat one of the best teams in modern times.

Chelsea

sportsczy wrote:4 out of 5 finals is insane.

Gives a wrong picture though. When they reached the final under van Gaal they weren't particularly great. 0-3 at halftime in Old Trafford. Last minute winner at home. 2 of the other 3 teams they faced in the knockout rounds were Fiorentina and Lyon. lol Completely different team now. It's a bit like Manchester United reaching 3 out of 4 finals between 2008 and 2011. Doesn't necessarily mean much. If we count like that we have Barca winning 3 finals in 6 years compared to Bayern's 1 in 5.

If they reach back to back trebles that would be insane. Although their domestic competition must be questioned. Their main rivals are being dismantled by bigger European clubs. Including Bayern themselves. Not operating on equal terms at all. Barca competing with Madrid is just an entirely different story. Real Madrid have two € 100M wingers upfront. lol

Great, but pepcelona will still be remembered better. Tbf, this Bayern would have a good chance of beating prime pepcelona, so complete, great press, great at escaping a press, WC class dribblers, pace, athleticism, aerial dominance, counter attacks, effective long ball game, they are more complete than pepcelona, but...... pepcelonas metronomic passing + messis genius >

futbol wrote:

sportsczy wrote:4 out of 5 finals is insane.

Gives a wrong picture though. When they reached the final under van Gaal they weren't particularly great. 0-3 at halftime in Old Trafford. Last minute winner at home. 2 of the other 3 teams they faced in the knockout rounds were Fiorentina and Lyon. lol Completely different team now. It's a bit like Manchester United reaching 3 out of 4 finals between 2008 and 2011. Doesn't necessarily mean much. If we count like that we have Barca winning 3 finals in 6 years compared to Bayern's 1 in 5.

If they reach back to back trebles that would be insane. Although their domestic competition must be questioned. Their main rivals are being dismantled by bigger European clubs. Including Bayern themselves. Not operating on equal terms at all. Barca competing with Madrid is just an entirely different story. Real Madrid have two € 100M wingers upfront. lol

Dortmund isn't being dismantled, neither by bigger European clubs nor by Bayern, they're having an massive injury crisis, so they're not as good as last season at the moment.
But Real's multi-100m team as well as Man City's multi-100m team were outplayed by them last season.

Structurally you're right, both Dortmund and even Bayern's spending on players pales in comparison to all other European top clubs. Even Arsenal spent more than us this year. Dortmunds wage bill is on par with Stoke City's.

But you can't tell me the Spanish league is, as a whole, better than the Bundesliga.

futbol wrote:

sportsczy wrote:4 out of 5 finals is insane.

Gives a wrong picture though. When they reached the final under van Gaal they weren't particularly great. 0-3 at halftime in Old Trafford. Last minute winner at home. 2 of the other 3 teams they faced in the knockout rounds were Fiorentina and Lyon. lol Completely different team now. It's a bit like Manchester United reaching 3 out of 4 finals between 2008 and 2011. Doesn't necessarily mean much. If we count like that we have Barca winning 3 finals in 6 years compared to Bayern's 1 in 5.

If they reach back to back trebles that would be insane. Although their domestic competition must be questioned. Their main rivals are being dismantled by bigger European clubs. Including Bayern themselves. Not operating on equal terms at all. Barca competing with Madrid is just an entirely different story. Real Madrid have two € 100M wingers upfront. lol

Speaing of domestic competiton, Bayern battered you last year and BVB battered Madrid, Bayern are going against a cl finalist team. Barcelona won the treble when Madrid couldn't even get out of round 16...what other spanish team was doing well in 09? You can't use the domestic arguement if you didn't use it for Spain. Barcelona hammered Madrid 6-2 in 09 ffs and hammered them 5-0 in 11. Bayern are steam rolling teams in Europe atm as well. The Bundesliga is weak eh, correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Bayern batter Juve the Serie A champs and they gave Barcelona the second worst hammering in European cup sf history...so yea, we are not talking about a normal team here.

go and tell Real Madrid fans how ridiculous it is to play against Lyon in CL last 16/quarter final..

ahh man, i miss last 16 Madrid , they were awesome. dem tussles with lyon

Hapless_Hans wrote:go and tell Real Madrid fans how ridiculous it is to play against Lyon in CL last 16/quarter final..

Those were the dark days man. Thank God we've destroyed Lyon a couple of times since then.

Zealous wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:go and tell Real Madrid fans how ridiculous it is to play against Lyon in CL last 16/quarter final..

Those were the dark days man. Thank God we've destroyed Lyon a couple of times since then.

You have. His Madrid tenure is being rubbished, but it was Mourinho who broke that spell, if I'm not mistaken.