Star strikers Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland clash for what could be the last time in the Bundesliga in Saturday's top-of-the-table clash between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
A home success over second-put Dortmund at Munich's Allianz Arena will get a 10th consecutive Bundesliga title for Bayern with three games left.
Lewandowski can likewise lift the Bundesliga prize for the 10th time - in every one of his eight seasons at Bayern, in addition to two times with previous club Dortmund, whom he left 6 out of 2014.
Haaland, 21, and Lewandowski, 33, play played key parts in the last six confrontations - all won by Bayern - with Lewandowski netting eight goals contrasted with Haaland's five.
They are "two outright world stars who eclipse all the others" in the Bundesliga, Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke told Sport Bild, and are "the most well known abroad".
The pair showed up as of late in an English-language TV advert for the Bundesliga playing a thick round of poker.
An alternate sort of arrangement is supposedly currently set up among Haaland and Manchester City, where the Norwegian star could acquire around £500,000 (each week next season.
It would make him the Premier League's most noteworthy worker assuming that City trigger a delivery condition for 75 million euros in his agreement.
Lewandowski is attached to Bayern until 2023, yet with contract expansion talks progressing, there is hypothesis he could leave.
Barcelona has been promoted as one potential objective with move bits of gossip further fuelled after his better half Anna posted on Instagram that she is learning Spanish.
Last Sunday, Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn conceded Lewandowski is "contemplating what's to come" - all in all, considering stopping Bayern where he has brought home each accessible championship.
Losing Lewandowski or Haaland would be terrible for business and interest in Germany's first class. "Losing stars is a major risk for the Bundesliga," Watzke focused.
"We must be cautious and attempt to keep a large number of the stars we actually have," which he concedes is "troublesome taking into account the extraordinary monetary tension from England".
Indeed, even Bayern - Germany's most extravagant club - can't join the competition to sign Haaland as need might have arisen to sign him are "extremely far away from what we envisioned", Kahn conceded.
Having previously seen Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jadon Sancho and Christian Pulisic leave lately to join top English clubs, Dortmund are likewise supported to lose Haaland.
"We will deal with it the manner in which we generally have," added Watzke.
"We will find another person in the future."
ONE TO WATCH: EMIL FORSBERG
The Swedish playmaker fell off the seat to score a keep going heave champ on Wednesday against Union Berlin which booked Leipzig's spot in the German Cup last on May 21 against Freiburg.
Leipzig have Union again in the association on Saturday to adjust before their Europa League semi-last, first leg against Rangers next Thursday.
Forsberg presently can't seem to begin an Europa League game this season and could play from the primary whistle against Union as Leipzig coach Domenico Tedesco pivots his crew.
KEY STATS
51 - wins for Bayern, to Dortmund's 25 triumphs, in 106 Bundesliga matches between Germany's top clubs.
26 - the goals Lewandowski has scored, including two full go-arounds, in 25 games for Bayern against his previous club. He scored two times when Bayern won 3-2 at Dortmund last December.
7 - straight losses for Dortmund, who last beat Bayern in the Bundesliga almost four a long time back.
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