After a “good conversation” with the CEO, it is clear: Coach Tuchel is leaving FC Bayern in the summer. This impulse should save the Munich season. Which successor solution would be Bayern-like?
FC Bayern is hoping for a solution to the blockade. With the announced separation from coach Thomas Tuchel in the summer, Munich, who are reeling towards their first titleless season in twelve years, want to release their strength for the hot phase of the season.
FC Bayern announced that they had jointly decided to end the collaboration, which was originally dated until June 30, 2025, on June 30, 2024, after “Bild” and Sky had already reported on it. This is the result of an amicable conversation between CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen and Tuchel.
The future with the recently badly scarred coach has been clarified ahead of time, now the players should deliver after three serious goals – that should be the hope of the Bayern management. “In an open, good conversation we came to the decision to mutually end our collaboration in the summer. Our goal is to reorient the sport with a new coach for the 2024/25 season,” explained CEO Dreesen.
And then the FCB boss made it clear: “Until then, every single person in the club is expressly required to achieve the maximum possible in the Champions League and the Bundesliga. I also explicitly hold the team accountable for this.”
Tuchel wants to “continue to give everything for maximum success”
Will Tuchel, brought in as successor to Julian Nagelsmann in March 2023, still be able to achieve a turnaround with an unsettled team? Until the end of the collaboration after this season, he and his “coaching team will of course continue to give everything for maximum success,” said the 50-year-old. On Säbener Strasse, meanwhile, it was “business as usual” from the outside: the training ground was completely shut down, and only loud commands came out on Wednesday. Thomas Müller trained with an athletic trainer on the next court.
The Munich bosses want to avoid a coaching change at the home stretch of the season, but that cannot be ruled out. With a whopping eight points behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, the focus is on the Munich team in the premier class, who were embarrassed in the DFB Cup by third division club 1. FC Saarbrücken: In the round of 16, FC Bayern have to lose 1-0 from the first leg at Lazio on March 5th Catch up with Rome.
Eberl has work waiting for him
“Especially in the Champions League, we are convinced that after the 0-1 defeat in the first leg at Lazio Rome, we will move into the quarter-finals in the second leg in our fully occupied Allianz Arena with our fans behind us,” explained Dreesen.
The short-term task in the Bundesliga on Saturday (6.30 p.m.) is cup winners RB Leipzig. The designated Munich sports director Max Eberl is still employed there. The FC Bayern supervisory board will reportedly give the green light for this appointment next Monday. From then on, Eberl can familiarize himself with the squad and coaching architecture.
According to dpa information, both clubs have long agreed on key points; Leipzig therefore booked a transfer fee of 4.5 million euros for the former Bayern professional.
Win – but with style
Tuchel, who has already had success at Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain and FC Chelsea, currently only has the Munich team to show for winning the German championship in an exciting finish in front of BVB. This season he has suffered many injuries in his top-class team. However, Tuchel has recently had no success with tactical and personnel changes.
“The DNA of the club is clearly defined. It’s about winning, it’s also about the way of winning,” Tuchel said when he was introduced as Munich’s new hope last year. He did not fully meet these requirements.
Xabi Alonso would be Bayern-like
Who will continue FC Bayern’s DNA in the future? With the Tuchel announcement, the people of Munich bought themselves some time. They no longer have a short-term solution like Jupp Heynckes or Ottmar Hitzfeld used to have. Someone like Leverkusen’s successful coach Xabi Alonso would be a classic Bayern solution from summer onwards.
The former midfield strategist played for FC Bayern from 2014 to 2017, and his departure would also weaken a direct competitor. According to Sky, the Spaniard, whose contract in Leverkusen has been extended until the summer of 2026, is the preferred candidate on the Isar.
Nostalgic number Flick
Zinédine Zidane would be an XXL solution. World star as a player, world star as a coach, on the sidelines at Real Madrid, winner of the Champions League three times in a row. However, the Frenchman does not speak the German language. A return of Hansi Flick is probably nothing more than a nostalgic number, as the six-title coach left Munich two years before his contract expired in order to become a national coach.
And Jürgen Klopp? According to statements from his agent, Klopp will not be available as coach for FC Bayern in the summer. “Jürgen Klopp will not coach a club or a national team for a year after the current season. It remains that way,” Marc Kosicke told the TV channel Sky. .
Klopp would certainly be the desired solution for many fans. The former Dortmund champion coach is leaving Liverpool FC at the end of the season after almost nine years. He had announced that he would take a break.
Source: Stern
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