Was Bayern’s change of coach right?

Was Bayern’s change of coach right?

The new Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel
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Gunther Mayrhofer

Gunther Mayrhofer

Sports Editor

PER

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From the outside, no one can judge whether Julian Nagelsmann has lost the support of the players. In any case, his skiing holiday at a time when Bayern was gambling away their nine-point lead over Dortmund in the Bundesliga was clumsy. More serious is what you could see from the outside: Bayern have never shown consistent dominance in the Bundesliga, as the superior squad would actually command.

It is not fair to ask successor Thomas Tuchel to conjure up a winning machine from an insecure team within a very short time. The club management presented a problem that Nagelsmann also had: There is no top scorer who can decide games – even if things don’t go that way.

Harold Bartl

Harold Bartl

Deputy Head of Sport

CONS

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Just to clarify: Thomas Tuchel impresses me as a coach. And I have every confidence in him that he can go back to the more successful days of the past with FC Bayern.

But the way in which Tuchel was presented in a cloak-and-dagger campaign as Julian Nagelsmann’s successor was purely due to the board’s panic. The CEO Oliver Kahn and sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic felt, especially after the quarter-final draw against Manchester City, that things were going to get really tight. With a change of coach you can always brush yourself off and argue that you have tried everything. Bayern’s biggest problem isn’t the coach – it’s the sporting leadership.

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