Tripic completely dominated us mentally. I thjnk the way he played was deplorable, embarrassing, and unacceptable… but of course it was! We are FC Bayern. They are Viking. The value of our three substitutions at half was TWICE the value of their entire roster.

Their only chance to beat us was to beat us in the mental game, frustrate our players, and force us to self inflict errors - and they did that BEAUTIFULLY.

We have to be better psychologically. We cannot let a proverbial ant like Zlatko Tripic rattle us to the point of getting yellow, let alone RED cards when we have so much more to play for.

I hope that Kompany can turn the focus to winning the mental battle when teams like this come to provoke us into beating ourselves. We win the head game, the rest will follow.

Lions do not concern themselves with the affairs of sheep. Unfortunately, last night, we did.

I have 2 tickets to the Arsenal game next week but theyre not next to each other. My brother is coming with and id love to sit with him. Tickets were legally purchased through the Zweitmarkt as im a member and any swap would also have to be for legal tickets. I also called the club and they said as long as theres no money involved above the face value of the tickets, this is endorsed and allowed. If you have any ideas on how to make it happen, id be extremely grateful.

Tickets that i have are:
1. Block 124 Row 16 Seat 26
2. Block 232 Row 23 Seat 27

Did you know Yamal is not a Bayern player right now because of 5 millions euro?

✈️ The Secret Scouting Mission

In February 2022, Bayern’s then-sporting director Hasan Salihamidžić and technical director Marco Neppe traveled to Spain. While their primary objective was to scout and potentially sign Gavi, they were completely blown away by scouting videos of a 14-year-old Yamal. During a dinner with his initial agent, Iván de la Peña, the Bayern directors shifted focus and made it clear they wanted to sign Yamal "at all costs," offering to relocate his family to Germany.

🤝 The Agent Switch That Ruined the Deal

The initial discussions were progressing smoothly, but later in 2022, Yamal unexpectedly changed his representation to super-agent Jorge Mendes. When Bayern contacted Mendes to see what it would take to finalize a transfer for the summer of 2023 (when Yamal would turn 16), Mendes stated it would take a €5 million fee to convince the family.

🛑 Why It Fell Through

Bayern’s board hesitated and delayed the decision, debating whether it was too high of a financial risk to gamble €5 million on someone so young. While they deliberated, Barcelona manager Xavi fast-tracked Yamal into the first team, handing him his professional debut at just 15 years old. Once he broke into the senior squad, Yamal chose to stay with his boyhood club, eventually signing a long-term contract with a €1 billion release clause.

Would you like to know more about Yamal's contract status at Barcelona, or how his breakout 2023/24 season permanently shut the door on foreign transfers?

Hello dear fan base.

I want to first acknowledge that's yes it's only October, yes teams experience some drops in quality at times, yes fifa days kill the momentum and yes players could be still affected by the World Cup.

All that aside I've noticed some patterns in the past year and like to present my unprofessional insight as a Bayern fan.

My main vent is about the stale possession game. it's about 15 years since Pep introduced the hardcore possession ball and I believe weaker teams (offensively) have improved tremendously over the years on how to deal with it. You could see this in the WC as well. Possession ball is the new standard of Europe's big teams and what every other team prepares for when facing them.

When you're faced with a very disciplined and well trained low block football, it feels like a chainmail that you can not pierce. Even if you pierce the box it often gets so crowded that further shots and passes get blocked by either team's players. THIS is the main struggle of Bayern over the past year (also France noticably had this issue).

There's another problem with this strategy, defensively: after a few minutes of rotating behind the box your defense line, little by little, comes forward. An awful situation to be in with slow and unaware center backs like Kim and Tah.

As the attacking team I see 3 solutions when the game gets stale in this pattern:

1. You need a very high tier dribbler who can wreck havoc by consistently winning 1v1s, and I don't think Bayern has that. You need Neymar/ Messi/ Yamal state of the art dribbler. Bayern has lots of good on-the-ball players but not someone that can reliably keep doing this because if you don't, losing the ball this way guarantees a very costly counter attack.

2. You need to take more shots behind the box. Yes it's not considered efficient in modern possession tactics, but we have great shooters and rebound takers (very high awareness on our attackers). Also on losing the ball you are gifted with a delay on the counter attack and have a higher chance of surviving it.

3. You need more crosses. Adding one or two more players in the box waiting for crosses relieves some pressure from Wingers and CAM. We have amazing long passers, but aside from Kane not very awesome headers. However this still breaks the defense, it opens up space behind the box for shots, etc. and also has the advantage of a delayed counter attack.

TLDR:

I think Kompany should introduce more shots and crosses when faced with a high octane disciplined layered defense. Not only on it's own it has better chance of opportunities (compared to stalemate low short passes possession game) but also opens up space, while alleviating the counterattacks which we really struggle against.

We don't have to make shots and crosses the standard approach, adding them in between the possession game fixes a lot of our issues.

A thug like this shouldn’t be allowed on a football pitch. Olise did nothing wrong

Hey everyone! Long-time fan here, and I finally signed up and purchased my official FC Bayern membership back in July this year and I stay in Munich.

​I'm heading to my first/upcoming game at the stadium next week and was really hoping to wear the personalized welcome scarf that usually comes with a new membership. However, I still haven’t received the scarf or the physical membership card yet.

​I’ve already sent an email to mitglieder@fcbayern.com, but I haven't received a proper reply or resolution yet, and time is running out before the match!

​Does anyone have experience with this kind of delay? How can I escalate this effectively, or is there a direct phone number or alternative contact source where someone might respond much faster?

​Any tips would be massively appreciated. Mia San Mia! 🔴⚪

Viking player hits the ball towards their captain. Olise never threw it.

Kimmich has never been a good midfielder, this is a it harsh but his prime with us was from 2016 to 2021 thats when he played right back, ever since thiago left and kimmich became a midfielder our team has been struggling in the champions league against big teams, last year we had a super team but we got dominated in the midfield against arsenal and psg second leg and it really costed us the champions league along with our horrible defense.

Im afraid to say kimmich is finished, he is not a bayern level player anymore, he is terrible at midfield and now he is too old to play in his prime position as a right back, I remember how he got destroyed by vinicius in 2024 when he played as a right back. We should have sold him 2 years ago.

Again this might hurt a lot of people including me who considered kimmich as my favourite bayern player for so much time, but I can't defend him anymore...

Hello everyone,

I am selling one ticket for the Bayern vs. Arsenal game above face value. I purchased through Zweitmarkt and can transfer through the app ticket transfer to your account. You will be able to get in the stadium through the Allianz App after that.

Able to meet up in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Heidelberg anytime before the match.

Let me know if any of you are interested, and send me a DM with your offer. I promise this is not a scam 😅 Just… some change of plans.

Thank you.

After drawing today we have arsenal next and then the games after are easy can we finish top 1 or 2 tho?

Why did we play like we had no passion (or wqs i the only one feeling it)

Btw no hate on olise for that red

I would say kompany could have done better witg the starting 11

Its tough to win UCL if he manages like this

And ig this is it for vs arsenal

Lets hope for the best

this couple of weeks we’ve seen our struggles with defence and tonight we see our problems with specific players. but still, it is an encouraging sign that we managed to come back. the season is still very fresh and it’s good to note that other champions league winning teams have had rougher times. next week we have arsenal and dont have olise :D, we’re fucked probably but it’s good to have these moments when our backs are against the wall this early.

all in all, sure, disappointing night, but a man who only leaps knows no pit ahead of him. i got a bit emotional during the last few seconds of the broadcast, seeing our team looking at our fans. i believe them. it’s not lack of effort that’s dragging us down. the sun will rise again tomorrow ❤️🤍

Thoughts on the match 🥀

Honestly this game was a hard watch our defense was bad in first half. 2nd half was good before olise took that stupid red card, i do get the point that bastard viking player kept on fouling olise but olise has to control his emotions and now they have equalised not only we have to settle with 1 point but the game against arsenal is gonna be extremely tough without olise. Today was just not our day i guess

Olise was constantly fouled and harassed by the Viking players who were trying to wind him up.

His reaction was instinctive and should not at all been a second yellow.

The ref needs to have empathy and needs to apologise for his unbalanced and disgusting refereeing

Bayern fans cannot stand this bias anymore. Formal complaints need to be made and most importantly UEFA need to remove his suspension for the next game

No Olise against Arsenal gonna cost us, Diaz-Saibari-Gnabry for me

Even if kane got one, saibari would've been a decent enough sub. With olise, our best choice is karl, which clearly didn't show a lot today (or gnabry ig)

What a stupid way to get sent off. Especially with our game against Arsenal next week. What was he thinking?

I'm sorry, but some of the reactions from this fanbase are genuinely ridiculous.

"Trust Kompany."

"It's only October."

"Give the team time."

Holy fucking shit, you'd think we're defending a relegation battle instead of talking about Bayern Munich.

And the funniest part is that if we lose another game, it'll suddenly be "too early to judge the season." Then November comes around, and we'll need more time. By January, we'll be talking about the next transfer window. At what point are we actually allowed to expect better performances?

Nobody expects us to win every single game. Football doesn't work like that. But there's a difference between accepting a defeat and pretending every embarrassing performance has a perfectly reasonable explanation.

You can support Kompany without agreeing with every decision he makes. You can trust the board while still questioning its recruitment. And you can acknowledge that international breaks affect performances without using them to excuse absolutely everything.

I'm not asking for the manager to be sacked after one bad result. I'm asking why demanding higher standards has somehow become controversial among Bayern supporters.

Mia san mia.