Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer won their tenth German championship in a row with a 3-1 win against the permanent second-placed Dortmund on Saturday. It is their coach's first and only title so far.
This is a disproportion that says nothing about the outstanding technical qualities of 34-year-old Julian Nagelsmann, who is now the second youngest coach in the history of the Bundesliga after Matthias Sammer to have won a German championship.
However, it makes one difficulty clear that should not be underestimated, even with a view to the near future: that a trainer who still wants and has to prove himself is structurally not ideal in terms of his personal development and human maturity, despite all his professional expertise The solution is for a club that, according to its self-image, produces titles just as naturally as its inventor Uli Hoeneß does sausages.
If you work in an environment that demands titles above all, you will only be judged by them.
But that limits the possibilities of the young Nagelsmann as well as the insatiable Bavarians.
Jürgen Klopp recently said the interesting sentence, as far as his self-image is concerned, that he never had the goal of coaching the best team in the world, but always wanted to coach a team that is able to beat the best team in the world .
In fact, despite winning every title there is to win, Klopp, who is twenty years his senior, has managed to retain a little of the aura of challenger himself and the club even at legendary Liverpool.
Klopp is also burningly ambitious, but he still managed the feat that his work is actually not only measured by titles and is not only measured by them.
Nagelsmann and Bayern seem pretty immobile in that regard.
In the league, Bayern have always won when it mattered, but only there: four games against Dortmund and Leipzig – four wins.
But if their outstanding squad couldn't rely on the protection of the long season, they didn't deliver: in the DFB Cup they lost 5-0 to Gladbach in the second round, in the Champions League in the quarter-finals against the Spanish seventh-placed team.
These weaknesses also point to a problem with long-term success in the league: having to mobilize the punch in the few knockout games almost at the push of a button is more difficult for Bayern than for teams that are fighting for the title like in England and Spain are regularly challenged.
With the tenth title, an era is coming to an end.
The architects of this success, crowned by two triumphs in the Champions League, have already disappeared: Hoeneß and Rummenigge.
Hainer and Kahn have not yet been equal successors.
The mainstay on the field – Neuer, Müller, Lewandowski – will not stay with FC Bayern forever.
With Lewandowski, who produces goals as naturally as the club wins titles, they could soon lose the almost ideal Bayern professional.
But hiring and financing stars of this quality will be difficult for Bavaria.
However, the self-image of continuing to focus on winning the Champions League is unlikely to change anytime soon.
This outlines the biggest challenge for FC Bayern in the coming decade: developing a self-image that suits the team and the coach.
Only this much is certain: Learning from Klopp also means learning to win in this respect.