To the outside world, everything at Bayern Munich always appears so serene.
They are a slick operation, devoted entirely to the relentless and apparently never boring business of winning. Top of the Bundesliga, into the Champions League last-16 with two games to spare, winning another Treble, that kind of thing.
Which makes the rift that has opened between the club and one of their best players of the past decade, David Alaba, all the more surprising.


The Austrian defender, widely considered one of the best in the world, isn't a player Bayern would ideally want to lose when his contract runs out next summer.