News analysis: Guardiola: New contract after a beer shower?

It was an emotional finish all round for the 52nd Bundesliga season as Pep Guardiola tried to sneak off the pitch in Munich's Allianz Arena.

In the end, the 44-year old Spaniard was caught by Jerome Boateng after Bayern had received the championship shield for their 25th German title. The defender duly continued a long and dearly held tradition in German football. Guardiola was drenched with several liters of beer in front of a sell-out crowd after the last league match against FSV Mainz (2-0) as his team managed to finish the season with an impressive goal record of 80-18. These moments might have been the happiest ones for Guardiola after he missed out on fulfilling the club's and (and his) dream of winning the Champions League.

Many pundits assumed Guardiola might put an end to his German adventure as the coach seemed to be deeply disappointed after being knocked out of Champions League semifinal for the second consecutive year.

But as things look like fans around the world will soon get an answer to one of the most thrilling questions still remaining after the Bundesliga season.

Sources close to the club told Xinhua that Guardiola is expected to extend his contract by one or two year to 2017 or 2018.

Rumors from Bayern headquarters suggest that Guardiola's ambition ("Only the treble is enough") is to make a renewed attempt at winning the Champions League despite his dream of taking over at a top club in the English Premier League.

It is said that Bayern is willing to invest up to 100 million euros in new players as soon as the championship party on Munich's Marienplatz this Sunday is over.

Besides Guardiola and Bayern, the future of Juergen Klopp is also a top topic as the 47-year-old will leave Borussia Dortmund after seven years, two German titles (2011/2012), a German Cup win (2012) and a Champions League final (2013, 2-1 loss to Bayern Munich).

Like Guardiola, Klopp this season has lost some of his victorious aura as his Dortmund team for long was in trouble and saw itself at the bottom of the league before they managed some sort of turn around, by reaching the German Cup final and the qualification for the Euro League.

But Guardiola and Klopp are still regarded as top class in coaching.

Most pundits in Germany expect Klopp to join a club in the English Premier League but fans of Real Madrid recently chose Klopp as their favorite number one to succeed Carlo Ancelotti whose future is said to be uncertain.

In a survey conducted by the sports magazine "Marca" , 44 percent of the Real fans voted for Klopp.

According to media reports from Italy, AC Milan is interested in hiring Klopp's services.

Before leaving, Klopp and Dortmund still have the German Cup final against VfL Wolfsburg ahead of them in Berlin on May 30.

Besides Klopp and Guardiola the futures of Bayern midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (500 games for Bayern) and striker Thomas Mueller seem to be uncertain as both are on the list of Manchester United's coach Louis van Gaal.

But like Guardiola, Schweinsteiger and Mueller will most likely stay with Bayern.

Belgian striker Kevin de Bruyne is also likely to stay at VfL Wolfsburg who have just come second in the league. Their sponsor Volkswagen seems to be a source that will never run dry and they do not hide its ambitions to sharpen the company's reputation by being showcased in the Champions League.

The race for the trophy for the top goal scorer found a curious end as Eintracht Frankfurt striker Alexander Meier, who had been sidelined in the last weeks by injury, won with 19 goals in only 26 games.

Behind him were Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich with 17 goals in 31 games, Arjen Robben (17 in 21 games) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (16 in 33).

The 52nd season was entertaining enough to attract over 13 million fans, who witnessed the 306 league games live in one of the 18 arenas in the post World Cup season.

They saw a surprise like minnows FC Augsburg qualifying directly for the Euro League despite having the second smallest budget (16 million euros) of all 18 clubs.

Newcomers SC Paderborn had to bid the Bundesliga farewell after only one year alongside SC Freiburg, which managed to stay in the Bundesliga for six years.

Paderborn (15 million euros) and Freiburg (16.5 million euros) are two of the Bundesliga clubs working with a rather low budget compared with Bayern Munich's 140 million.

Paderborn's coach Andre Breitenreiter said after his team lost the last decisive game: "Today we all know, it is true: Money scores goals."

Hamburger SV, as 16th, has to play two play-offs matches against the second division's third placed team to stay at the Bundesliga.

The season's biggest disappointment not doubt was Schalke 04 and its coach Roberto di Matteo.

The Swiss coach failed to qualify for the Champions League and on top, after the 0-2 defeat against Hamburg at the last match day, has to go through qualification games to make it into the Europa league group stage.

Di Matteo's future is said to be uncertain as Schalke failed to make it to the league's top four despite a budget of approximately 80 million euros. Endi