an update from sam's subconscious

In the tragic time gap between the end of one Bundesliga season and the new one that's to come, one must inevitably find ways of coping. I, for one, have been re-watching my favorite HBO war mini series. If you honestly want to talk about anything that's not related to football or Band of Brothers, I am not your gal.

However, my subconscious has had other plans for me. It refuses to let me avoid the gaping hole in my life that has been left by FC Bayern München by harassing me with the strangest dreams.

Strange dream 1) Manuel Neuer miraculously scores a goal from all the way across the pitch, apparently against Liverpool (why would we be playing Liverpool, this remains a mystery to me).

Strange dream 2) Takashi Usami scores a goal in his first match for Bayern - while wearing a military camoflouge-themed kit. My dream!self says loudly in a Southern drawl (spoiler alert: I'm not Southern): "damn, we gotta get that kid a real kit now."

Conclusions to be drawn from this:

a) I really need to lay off those war mini series

and

b) if I have even a quarter of the psychic powers of the late, great Pulpo Paul, our new players are going to work out wonderfully for us.

How have you been coping with the Bundesliga break? The return to training and exhibition match today has caused a lot of excitement amongst the fans (read: the temptation to shuck on my dirndl and drape a Bavarian flag around myself and dance around like a lunatic was quite high) but we've still got some days to go until the new season starts. What holes do you think we still have in our line up? Will Jerome Boateng ever be ours? Does Berni have a girlfriend? Inquiring minds want to know.