This year Bayern are tinkling their league, but more often than not, the league is much more competitive than our league. 5 teams have won it in the last decade, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg, Dortmund, Bayern and Werder Bremen. Does anyone honestly think Bayern wouldn't have done the same if they were in our league this season? Adrian Durham was spouting his usual gonads the other day about how Bayern rested players and still won 6-1, proving the Bundesliga is weak. Poor arguement. They have just smashed Barca 7-0 on aggregate! I guess that means Barca aren't a very good side eh?
Bayern are clearly the biggest club in Germany, but that is largely because they were the only German team to be dominant in Europe and they have earned their money through success on the pitch, just like United and Liverpool. They will more than likely win the league next season, but the overall state of German football is promising. They had 4 teams in the last 16 of the CL. Plenty of up and coming stars like Gotze, Draxler, Reus and Gundogan. Plus most of the teams play an attractive passing style of play.
I'm not saying the Bundesliga will rule the football landscape for years to come, that would be presumptuous and we all know these things move in cycles, but the league has no doubt improved while ours has got worse. I just think a lot of English people simply can't stand the fact that Germany has two teams in the final and German football is getting a lot of attention and praise. Enlgish football fans get very defensive and cite the number of English teams in the final in previous seasons, don't really understand why, how does what happened in 2008 when the premier league was stronger have anything to do with the state of our league now?