Ten titles in succession but Bayern Munich are wracked by uncertainty

It had all the hallmarks of a title celebration. The freshly-minted commemorative T-shirts, the streams of flying beer, the full stadium (for the first time in an Allianz Arena edition of this fixture for two-and-a-half years), beating opponents of name to finish the job and the rest.

This was historic, as Bayern Munich clinched a 10th successive Bundesliga title. Yet it felt strangely empty, a sensation that couldn’t wholly be put down either to the recent dumping out of the Champions League or just plain old overfamiliarity.

Not even conquering Borussia Dortmund, the rivals who arguably started it all, drawing Bayern’s best ever years from them with their nerve in capturing straight titles under Jürgen Klopp, could help to shake the circle of doubts that dog the Rekordmeister right now.

On the pitch those start with their top scorer, the man whose 33rd league goal of another extraordinary season just before half-time set Bayern on an inexorable course to fulfilling their Saturday night destiny. Yet his post-match thoughts were opaque, rather than particularly triumphant. “It’s not that easy for me, what’s going on,” Robert Lewandowski told Sky after the match, where the traditional beer showers – one of which, from Thomas Müller, drenched Bastian Schweinsteiger as he performed his pitchside duties for US television – couldn’t wash away the questions currently nagging at Bayern on all levels.

“Something will happen soon,” Lewandowski added of his contract situation, with Barcelona persistently credited with an interest, whilst declining to be drawn on what that something would be.

It appears the issue, perhaps more than the potential of Lewandowski having an itch to scratch in terms of one last career challenge, is