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Can we make a list of TOP 50 Players of this club?

Of all time?

Yes.

Let's wait until CL and Cup finals.
If we do a treble, Lahm, Schweini, Mueller, Ribery and Robben could take quite a leap in the probable rankings.

We can discuss this all summer and may be form a consensus for a generalised list that everyone would agree upon.

I think a ranking would be pretty biased towards the current batch and the "untouchable" batch. A lot of top class Bayern players will get left out in between. People like Augenthaler, Pfaff, Roth and Schwarzenbeck spring to mind.

AssemFCB wrote:I think a ranking would be pretty biased towards the current batch and the "untouchable" batch. A lot of top class Bayern players will get left out in between. People like Augenthaler, Pfaff, Roth and Schwarzenbeck spring to mind.

Yep, that is quite likely, the reason being that the mid-70s and the current squad are probably the best two Bayern teams in history. Some great players will seem less good because their teams weren't so successful.

Kahn
Maier
Pfaff
Neuer

Lizarazu
Schwarzenbeck
Beckenbauer
Augenthaler
Brehme
Lahm
Andersson
Kuffour
Lucio

Lerby
Breitner
Ze Roberto
Roth
Ballack
Jeremies
Uli Hoeness
Matthaus
Schweinsteiger
Scholl
Effenberg
Basler
Ribery

McInally
KH Rummenigge
Gerd Muller
Makaay
Elber

Well that's the first 30.
The remaining 20 will be a LOT harder though. I'm thinking of names like Deisler, Sagnol, Robben, Babbel...
But lets not forget that despite bayern not winning a CL between 86-90, we were EXTREMELY strong back then, and should have knocked out the great AC Milan in 1990 in the semi-final, and a few more players from that era deserve to be on this list too.

SilentStrike wrote:Kahn
Maier
Pfaff
Neuer

Lizarazu
Schwarzenbeck
Beckenbauer
Augenthaler
Brehme
Lahm
Andersson
Kuffour
Lucio

Lerby
Breitner
Ze Roberto
Roth
Ballack
Jeremies
Uli Hoeness
Matthaus
Schweinsteiger
Scholl
Effenberg
Basler
Ribery

McInally
KH Rummenigge
Gerd Muller
Makaay
Elber

Well that's the first 30.
The remaining 20 will be a LOT harder though. I'm thinking of names like Deisler, Sagnol, Robben, Babbel...
But lets not forget that despite bayern not winning a CL between 86-90, we were EXTREMELY strong back then, and should have knocked out the great AC Milan in 1990 in the semi-final, and a few more players from that era deserve to be on this list too.

Great to see Ballack on that list

PS. You should also include Uli's brother Dieter Hoeness.

Wont be surprised if Kroos, Muller and Alaba get on this list in the future

Two names I would definitely add to SilentStrike's list are Sagnol and Gomez.

FCBayernMunchen wrote:Two names I would definitely add to SilentStrike's list are Sagnol and Gomez.

I totally agree about Sagnol,for Gomez I have my doubts but why not? 100 goals for us,great stats

SilentStrike excellent list,many of them I would probably forget,I would add Hasan Salihamidzic he was such a skillful winger and very loyal,many more to come

Achilles wrote:I totally agree about Sagnol,for Gomez I have my doubts but why not? 100 goals for us,great stats

I knew there would be a debate about Gomez. As you might know I am in favour of Mandzukic starting at the moment, but that doesn't take anything away from Gomez. Very few strikers have performed better for Bayern than him.

MUTU: I'm waiting for my thanks.

FCBayernMunchen wrote:

Achilles wrote:I totally agree about Sagnol,for Gomez I have my doubts but why not? 100 goals for us,great stats

I knew there would be a debate about Gomez. As you might know I am in favour of Mandzukic starting at the moment, but that doesn't take anything away from Gomez. Very few strikers have performed better for Bayern than him.

MUTU: I'm waiting for my thanks.

The only thing about Gomez,is that he scored many goals especially those 2 seasons where he was a starter but we weren't succesfull as a team unfortunately,that's all they were goals and achievements(1st BuLi scorer) which didn't benefit the team unfortunately,he is a decent striker of course and his stats/goals for Bayern are excellent,I'd pick him for the best 50-players though because of this.

I hope MUTU won't exterminate my account

Gomez is like his predecessors- Klose, Toni, Zickler, Pizarro, Jancker, Santa Cruz, Wohlfarth, Ohlhauser. They score many goals but don't really get the recognition as a team game standout. I would put Wohlfarth in this list along with Dieter Hoeness, Aumann.
Honourary mention but most likely wouldn't make it to this list: Nerlinger and Durnberger

Digging into history a little deeper, seemed like Ludwig Goldbrunner was our first star, and handed us our first Championship! He is also by many voted best 30 German football players of all time!

Oskar Rohr seems to be another remarkable pre-war Bayern talent that never became what he should have become because of the war.