Bayern Munich midfielder Tom Bischof cannot hide it — he is very excited to play for the club.
From the time he was a wee lad, Bischof has lived the “Mia San Mia” lifestyle.
“We actually have to go way back to my childhood so you understand what this shirt really means to me. As a little boy, I slept for years under a Bayern Munich painting. It was huge. I’d guess it was three meters high and two and a half meters wide. I got it as a gift when I started school. My father is a huge Bayern fan, and he asked
a friend who was a painter to draw it in my bedroom: me in the shirt of Amorbach, my hometown team at the time, doing an overhead kick – and above me, in huge letters, the Bayern Munich logo,” Bischof told club magazine Säbener51 (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “My father also signed me up for the fan club very early on. So, I fell asleep and woke up under the logo a few thousand times. I must have had 30 Bayern Munich shirts.
“I often had the number 10 on it, like Arjen Robben’s. And also shirts of (Bastian) Schweinsteiger, (Manuel) Neuer, (Franck) Ribéry. A lot of them. I wasn’t just fixated on one player. I liked the club with its stars and these special players. Sandro Wagner even gave me the shirt he wore in his last Bayern game. That was in Frankfurt, and I was in the stadium back then.”
It is safe to say, Bischof was “all-in” on making the transfer from Hoffenheim long before he signed his name on the dotted line of his Bayern Munich deal.
Bayern Munich is cruising and heading into another Champions League, so let’s take a look at the factors that have powered the team so far.
Harry Kane has been a beast, the squad is driven, and — by and large — personnel decisions have worked out well. Let’s get into all of that and more on this edition of the Bavarian Podcast Works Show. This is what we have on tap:
- Why has Harry Kane been better than ever? (Less need for him to work in build-up, better complimentary players around him — losing Sane and Coman was massive, more aggressive attacking game plan and sometime more direct, truly the focal point
- Is it possible that Harry Kane will stay at Bayern Munich? He is not dismissing the possibility.
- Yes! We avoided a #BayernKaren situation. We are rejoicing this in Philadelphia.
- Tying up some loose ends — let’s check in on Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman, João Palhinha, Paul Wanner, Mathys Tel, and Adam Aznou.
