Bundesliga: Bayern Munich's ideal line-up in 2019/20

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24-year-old Gnabry could be crucial to Bayern's success this term

Would you take a man who scored 40 goals and assisted 13 for your team out of the side? Neither would Kovac, which is why the only deputy to Robert Lewandowski at Bayern is the young new arrival Jan Fiete Arp. It's the mechanism around him that needs tweaking in the Bayern team.

Gnabry has been excellent for Bayern, driving and players and arriving in the box. The former Arsenal youngster isn't shy to take people on and will almost surely start for Kovac once he's back. Coman on the other wing tends to blow hot and cold at times, and it often leaves you feeling like he hasn't done enough at the end of games.

Thomas Muller, Renato Sanches, and Alphonso Davies have all been tried in wing positions, and although the Canadian promises the best solution for the future, he's played deputy to Alaba in many cases rather than Coman. Sanches and Muller though decent players, only seem to be stop-gaps in the wing position rather than credible replacements.

Bayern seem to have turned to Leroy Sane to solve their wing issues, and are seemingly set to get their man this summer. The German international will prosper in Kovac's wing focussed system, as he did at Schalke and City, but he won't come cheap.