re: Champions of Europe, Treble Winners, your FC Bayern 2013-2014 season long thread

Thiagbro?

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge arrived at Bayern's training camp on Tuesday, determined not to miss the evening friendly against Brescia Calcio. The chairman was busy during the day hearing reports on the progress made in Riva so far, clearing up the final details of Mario Gomez' transfer to Fiorentina, and also spending half an hour with the media. fcbayern.de listened to the question-and-answer session.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on...

...progress at the training camp to date:
"Pep is totally satisfied, not just with the weather, the hotel and the food, but also with the training facility and the way the team is pulling together. Everything is positive at the moment. Trentino is like home for FC Bayern because everything is wonderful. We laid fantastic foundations for the treble here last year, and it's important to return to somewhere like this."

...targets for the new season:
"We won the league in style last season, and we want to defend the title, although we obviously want a good to very good role in the cup and especially in the Champions League. No team has ever managed to retain that trophy. That might be something we want to go after this season."

...big rivals Borussia Dortmund:
"We expected Borussia Dortmund to put in a huge effort and get after us, and that's good. They want to make life hard for us in the Bundesliga and Champions League. I think it's an exciting prospect."

... Mario Gomez' impending transfer:
"We're just working on the final details. They want to unveil Mario in Florence on Thursday. We're losing a player with a magnificent record. Mario was a good player to bring to Bayern, and he's always conducted himself properly and likeably. There's a World Cup at the end of the season, and he wants to be a regular for Germany. He thinks his best chance is to go to Florence. I'm sure he'll have a successful spell there. Mario will help Italian football, and contribute to Fiorentina moving even higher up the table. The people in Florence are very enthusiastic because of him."

...any other potential transfers:
"It's still relatively early, and we don't have any concrete plans at the moment. But let's wait and see what happens in the market. We're known for occasionally doing the unexpected, as we did with Javi Martinez last year. If anything reasonable became available, we'd talk it through internally."

...Franck Ribéry:
"We had an astronomical offer from England for him back in 2008, but we said no. The decision sent out a signal. We indicated we're not a club that sells players it wants. Franck has been crucial to our recent success. We're very happy with him, and he's happy in Munich."

...Arjen Robben:
"I was exceptionally happy that it was he who scored the winning goal in the Champions League final, because Arjen has taken a lot of criticism over the years. I know he's obsessed by football, and we've won important trophies thanks to him. I think the crowd have taken to him now, but I always knew he was quality. And it wasn't for nothing that Pep described him as a gift. The statement tells you all you need to know."

...public training sessions at the Säbener Strasse:
"We're the last big club in Europe to hold any public training sessions at all. Take Chelsea as an example, where even a mouse can't get in. But Bayern have come to a very fair arrangement with the fans, and there will continue to be open training sessions, although obviously there'll still be some closed sessions."

...Breno, who is currently serving a prison sentence:
"We can say with some hope that Breno may be allowed a form of day release, which would be every day from 8 am till 8 pm. He'd have to prove he has a job, and we're ready to offer him one. It would be very desirable in his case."

I like that KHR basically said they didn't want Gomez after praising him. We had a big offer for Ribery but we don't sell players we want

Thx for that, good read...

Probably in the hole, two attacking mid spots, wingers

I guess we can assume schopf is out, he was always too short to play DM anyway. Seems talented though.

Pep is mad at Barcelona LINK

quote:

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"I told them [the president and his directors] I was going 6,000km away and asked them to leave me in peace, but they haven't kept their word," he said. "I did my time [at Barcelona] then decided to leave.

"I want them to get on with the job and I wish them all the success in the world, because their success will also be mine - I don't need to say what I feel for this club."

Guardiola revealed he had been incensed by the suggestion that he had not made the effort to see Tito Vilanova, his former assistant, when the current Barca coach had travelled to New York for cancer treatment.

"Too many things have happened that have crossed the line," Guardiola told the media in Lake Garda, where Bayern are holding a pre-season training camp. "I will never forget that they used Tito's illness to cause me damage, because it's a lie that I never saw him in New York.

"I saw him once, and the reason I didn't see him more often was because it wasn't possible, and that wasn't my fault. To say that I don't wish the best of someone who was my colleague for so many years is very bad taste, and I didn't expect that."

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I don't have shite to do so here's more tactical musings

----------------------------- Neuer ------------------------------

---------- Boateng ------- Javi ------------ Dante ----------

Lahm ------------------- Schweiny ------------------ Alaba

-------------- Kroos ----------------------- Thiago ------------

--------------------------- Ribery --------------------------------

----------------------------- Mandzukic ------------------------

LINK

Philipp Lahm says Pep is only making slight changes