The boys from Munich totally dismantled Werder Bremen 4-0 on the road at the Weserstadion, warning the rest of the German steadies that this will be a season of maulings.

A Franck Ribery penalty (awarded for a foul on Luca Toni) before the break was followed by total annihilation in the second half. Involved in the buildup of the penalty, Toni added the second as the Italian target man settled fellow new-signing, Hamit Altintop’s cross and swept home in the box.

Ribery and Altintop linked up for the third goal as Altintop finished from the edge of the penalty area, and substitute midfielder Andreas Ottl added the bubbly as his thunder-strike from distance added insult to injury for the Bremen faithful.

The only other team to remain undefeated through the second weekend of the Bundesliga is Hamburg SV, who defeated Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 on Sunday.

Hamburg will encounter 5th place VfL Bochum in an important early game this Friday while Bayern will match up against 11th place Hannover 96 on Saturday at home.

Unfortunately, German striker Klose will be out (also for the International friendly against England in the midweek) due to an injury sustained during his return to the Weserstadion against his old club, but with the power of Bayern, I don’t think that he will be sorely missed in this one.

Having surrendered their usual lock-grip on the Bundesliga title last season, Bayern have made a number of summer signings to bring back the smiles to half of Germany including Franz Beckenbauer.

With an uncharacteristic 4th place finish last term, however, the high profile, new faces will have to be content with UEFA Cup action this time around while they fight through the Bundesliga, looking to ensure Champions League Football for next season.

Gone are the South American forward line of Pizarro (to Chelsea) and Santa Cruz (back to Paraguay or something), replaced by German International Miroslav Klose and Italian International strike force Luca Toni.

Owen Hargreaves has also left, thank God. French International Frank Ribery and the re-called Brazilian, Ze Roberto, will far out-way the loss of the Canadian, er-I mean English midfielder.

The new boys have already gotten a run out with their new team and looked absolutely lethal as they won the German Pre-season tournament. Of course the league will be a tougher story, but with how much Bayern have spent, anything less then title holders will be frowned on by the Bayern hierarchy.

Their opening run out against promoted side Hansa Rostock on Saturday couldn’t be any easier either while defending champions Stuttgart have a punishing, pulsating 1st match against league runner-ups Schalke in the Bundesliga opener on Friday.