Bayern Munich's, Borussia Dortmund's biggest offseason questions after final Der Klassiker of the season

ESPN's lead Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae is in Munich this week, preparing to broadcast «der Klassiker» — Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund — on Saturday. (Stream LIVE, 12:30 p.m. ET, ABC and ESPN+). While it's a chance for Bayern to clinch a record tenth successive title, the future for both clubs remains an open book.

Julian Nagelsmann captured the mood in the Bayern camp perfectly at his Thursday afternoon media conference. There is excitement at the prospect of clinching the league "dahoam" (the Bavarian term for «at home») at the Allianz Arena before 75,000 against their closest pursuers. For the Bayern coach himself, it's a special time as he gets ready to celebrate his first major piece of silverware. Yet still there is a nagging, queasy feeling around Germany's Rekordmeister that this is the season that got away.

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Winning the Meisterschale is the minimum goal for any Bayern team and it only takes on grander significance when augmented by a trophy lift in a different competition. Bayern have come up well short of expectations in the DFB-Pokal and the Champions League — they were thrashed in the former by Borussia Monchengladbach and outwitted in the latter by Villarreal.

Ah, yes, Villarreal. The Spanish submarine specter that will likely haunt the German champions for a while. At least on Saturday, Bayern can allow themselves to come up for air.

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It has become fashionable to belittle the club's merciless annual rite of Bundesliga passage, but 10 in a