- Bad transfer decisions:

- Let Lucio go - no, better - tell him to leave because the new boss thinks he knows every player without even meeting them.

- Get no adequate replacement for Lucio, but count on a 19 year old talent to fix what already did not work last year with two top class center backs (now Bayern went from a world-class defensive lineup (sagnol - lucio - demichelis - lahm) to an amateurish one (lahm - van buyten - badstuber - braafheid) within two seasons.

- Get no new keeper and stop looking for one as soon as the also error prone Neuer is not to be got. (Why not a solid Frey, Enke, Wiese, Benaglio, Buffon type of guy? - Buffon might be unrealistic, but the rest isn't.) Really, Rensing is a nice guy but he should just go and try to sort his issues out elsewhere. Butt has long passed his best years, that already was the reason for Leverkusen to get rid of him.

- Don't spend money on solving the obvious problems on the right back position (aka Lell). Buy Braafheid (!) and Pranjic who can play on the left (in Braafheid's case not well enough for Bayern) and experiment with Lahm on the right (he thinks he's better there but I'd like to respectfully diagree.).

- Buy Mario Gomez for €30m, another striker of the Luca Toni, Miro Klose type (i. e. physically strong, good goal instincts - absolutely no technique in shooting or dribbling, not deadly quick, not creative enough)

- Get no creative player to support Ribery, although you originally planned it. While Stuttgart loan Hleb for little money, also get progrebnijak for €7m (something we tried, but never accomplished to do) and Hamburg (wait I need an extra bullet point for this!)

- ...And Hamburg take on Ze Roberto (yes we prefer to keep crazy old van Bommel instead so that we can keep seeing the nut-job acting like a 14 year old bully on the pitch for another season again...) who was the only other creatively gifted midfielder we had last season (could it be that van Gaal dislikes the playing style of Brasilians?!?!)

- Olic and Tymoshchuk were the only supportable new signings for this season (while both of them are not going to win Bayern any titles at any point in time.)

- Oh and about van Gaal, I like his 'very tough-nut but fair' approach to the thing, but start doubting whether he hasn't also passed his best years (like Toni, Klose, van Bommel, van Buyten, Butt.) His decisions to take all the resources Bayern offered him to get Braafheid and Pranjic, get rid of Lucio are more than weird.

The key question is, how can Hoeness, Rumenigge and even Nerlinger see this squad and say: OK this is it we are done and ready to win titles this season. They need to act quickly...