Bayern Bits
By: Angela | July 13th, 200801. Klinsmann took his first win with the Bavarian Giants in a match against Lippstadt. The score; 7-1. And his win came while pretty much using the second team as the majority of the first team just came back from holiday and only had a week of training. Which is probably not saying a whole lot considering that Lippstadt is an amateur team by comparison.
02. Mario Gomez will not be joining Bayern. In an effort to keep Podolski and give him a chance to shine under Klinsi, Gomez will not be coming to Bavaria anytime soon.
“Lukas has two years to go on his contract with us so there are no questions to be answered,” Klinsmann told the club’s official website. “I’ll go to great lengths to make sure Lukas feels happy at Bayern.
03. Klinsmann is looking for his Captain. Those in the running include Mark van Bommel and Philipp Lahm. We all know where I stand on this one so I won’t get into it again. 
04. Luca Toni has received some criticism for the way he played in the Euros. He has since said that he didn’t play badly, maybe just had a spot of bad luck here and there. He had a goal that was disallowed that was, in actuality, a valid goal and he also scored the penalty that provided Italy the win over France. What else did Toni have to say? He would’ve liked to seen a Germany/Italy final, but at the end of the day, Spain deserved the trophy. Aw, how sweet of him. And how sadened was he by Italy’s defeat in the Euro’s? Well, sad enough that he considered retiring from International Football, but has since reconsidered.
‘After the exit I considered whether I ought to retire. But it is my country, it is my team. I cannot and do not want to give that up. If (new Italy coach Marcello) Lippi wants me, I am available for the defence of the title in 2010.’
05. And last but definitely not least, Daniel van Buyten is very happy in Munich and even happier with the new training facilities that have become a part of the squads everyday life since Klinsmann came aboard. The renovations took place and Daniel will be staying. Two things that make him very happy.
“I wanted to know if the club still had need of my services, and I received a very positive answer. That did me a lot of good, because I feel very happy here,” he revealed, “I get up every morning looking forward to training. More than ever before, thanks to the new performance centre.”
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So what does everybody think of the way they did the 4 star layout? If you watch the Lippstadt video or any pictures of the match you can see the new layout. I’m not too fond of it. I was hoping they would do all 4 in a row but instead they just took the old 3 star design and added an additional star above the middle one.
I was hoping for
****
We Got
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***On possibility though is that since this is preseason they just added the star to jerseys they already had in stock so they wouldn’t be wasted. However I’m thinking this probably is the new permanant design.
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Errr…the software edited my post to remove the empty space, I meant:
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Huh. Looks like they took the old shirts and embroidered another star on them in a hurry. Not really the best layout, I agree. Normally they spend some time on this, so you’d think they’d find something better — four stars in a row or *something* more symmetrical. C’mon, Germans, find a more efficient design!
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Well, it doesn’t really matter, I mean they’ll have a ring of stars around the logo sooner than later..:)
Nice quiet camp so far. That’s a good thing. I really don’t think Bayern have much use for Gomez at this point. He really would be more of a replacement for Toni than Podolski, so maybe 2 years down the line, that’s something to look at.
It will be interesting to see who emerges in the central midfield. Between van Bommel, Ze Roberto, Borowski and Ottl who’s going to be starting? I guess the conventional wisdom would say van Bommel and Borowski. You would sort of expect Ze Roberto to kind of fall back into a reserve role at his age–but then remember how great he was the first third of last season! He made as much of a difference as Toni and Ribery in those early matches last season. One kind of gets the sense Ottl can’t quite bring it up to the level of a starter for Bayern. There are always flashes, but the consistency seems to be lacking. Borowski will be making some adjustment, having played on the left regularly in Bremen. I’ll leave the van Bommel analysis to his biggest fan
Perhaps the best thing about this group is that you really have two veterans and two younger players (Borowski really kind of falls in the middle, but we’ll call him younger), so you have a formula for alternating tired legs-I think this will be more of a factor under Klinsmann.Posted from
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Well unless they put prototype picture on their store page the star layout used in the Lippstadt game is official. If you look at the home shirt and shorts available for purchase in the official team store they contain the two line (1 star top line, 3 star bottom line) layout that was used in yesterdays game.
Also looking at video from yesterdays game again I noticed they didn’t put names on the jerseys. Since the 4 star layout appears to be official does this mean this years home shirts will have no player names on them?
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Luke: You know I’m hoping for a van Bommel captaincy so of course I think he’s the logical starting choice.
But, again, I’m a wee bit biased on the subject.
‘Well, it doesn’t really matter, I mean they’ll have a ring of stars around the logo sooner than later.. ’
Absolute truth my friend. Adam: I think this is the design, but I could be wrong. I really don’t think they’d sell something that wasn’t the final design.
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