Next year will be a year for Bayern Munich to compete for the Champions League. Last year, they won the Bundesliga and exceeded expectations,
Exceeded expectations?
Bayern not winning the Bundesliga was a shock, them winning is the absolute normal, they only lost it once to Bayer for the first time since 2011. Nobody is going to congratulate them for doing what everyone was expecting from them.
Also finishing 12th in the knockout stage and then eliminated in the quarter finals, again it's nothing amazing, quarter finals is the norm, only in 2018 were they eliminated at an earlier stage.
The kind of believe people had on them was what made it look like they performed exceptionally well last season. After Bayern Leverkusen won the last trophy from them, they were no doubt already seeing another team that could not easily bounce back to regain the trophy. When it happens to be Kompany as their new head coach, many already started concluding about how bad they think the season will end up for them, so that is how many expectations was broken beyond and not anything exceptional about them will be appreciated for now even they happen to be the league winners.
A new chapter for the champions league is what achievement will mean to their fans for them if they win the trophy because as long as the Bundesliga already stands, Bayern Munich will still find a way to win it back without taking longer time anytime they lose it to another club. They have dominated the game and have proven that several times that they are the best and rules the competition.