Bayern Munich form is a mystery for coach Guardiola

Guardiola, who won 13 trophies during four years in charge of Barcelona, recently announced his intention to leave Bayern in the summer and said he wanted to manage in England.

They might as well turn the lights out at Old Trafford – that would be the ultimate nightmare That’s why United have to go all out to get Guardiola, whatever it costs.

To be fair, if he can’t win the Premier League, without the challenge of Chelsea, with the amount of money he spent in the summer, maybe the former Malaga and Real Madrid chief should indeed depart.

Though Bayern took the precaution of securing Thomas Muller, Thiago Alacatara and Javi Martinez, three younger players, to long-term deals just before Guardiola’s announcement might have spread potential uncertainty through the squad, Mario Gotze’s future has a question mark over it.

Everyone expects them to lose this game as a bottom half team facing the current league leaders.

So far he has led Bayern Munich to two successive Bundesliga titles, but the Champions League has continued to elude the Spanish boss at the Allianz Arena.

Hamburg, who lost three of their warm-up matches, could be without top striker Pierre-Michel Lasogga and central defender Johan Djourou, with both racing against time to overcome injuries.

“I think I said I was embarrassed at the end about how badly I had been coaching for the previous two years, how hard he worked the players – these are the best players in the world, earning £300,000 a week and he was driving them to be better”. That’s good for us, too.

United legend Gordon McQueen spoke last week of his desire to see Guardiola move to Old Trafford, and says the Red Devils should pursue the former Barcelona boss even if it costs them £20million per season.

“Ancelotti is a great coach and a great man, from what I know of him”, said Franck Ribery, the winger, whose time at the Bayern of Guardiola has been mixed, to put it mildly.

“We know about the quality of Dortmund, but we are playing at Borussia Park and want to show that we deserve to be up the table”.