THE EUROPEAN landscape has barely changed this season: PSG, Juventus, Barcelona, Ajax, Benfica, Liverpool and City all at the top. The once exception among the top leagues is Germany, where Borussia Mönchengladbach lead the Bundesliga and Bayern Munich are struggling to hit their best form. Bayern’s recent 5-1 defeat in Frankfurt proved to be the final straw for the Bayern politburo and just 24 hours after their worst league defeat in a decade, coach Niko Kovač was dismissed. It was no great surprise, for the rumblings have been getting louder that Kovač was just “two games away from the sack”. Bayern have lost two of their last four league games and also produced two scrappy performances that yielded four points. It was not a…