The Bundesliga gets underway this weekend as defending champions Bayern Munich aim for an unprecedented fifth straight league title. New players, new managers, new clubs; there are plenty of new things to look forward to in 2016-17.
The usual suspects
Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern and Thomas Tuchel’s Borussia Dortmund are the favourites in early reckoning; both teams look way better than the rest of the competition but the onus is on Tuchel’s Dortmund to make the title race a bit more dramatic since the ruthlessly detail-oriented domination machine Pep Guardiola is no longer around.