The end of Thomas Müller after 17 professional years at Bayern should be certain. This raises explosive questions from the record champions.
Usually Thomas Müller is something like the communicative all -purpose weapon of FC Bayern. Whenever it needs to be explained by tricky situations, the unofficial foreign minister of the record champions rely. With his charm, shame and his eloquent quick-wittedness, the 35-year-old has just modernized many crisis in the past 17 professional years at Bayern.
The constellation on Saturday evening after the shaky 3-2 win against promoted St. Pauli and the continued personal situation at FC Bayern would be due to the next serious injury, this time by Hiroki Itō (more read here), but was actually predestined for the veteran.
But “Radio” Müller, as it is not called without reason, did not go on the air this time. Accompanied by a club employee, he was led past the waiting reporters – and this time left the arena in silence. Müller not only has an extraordinary sense of rooms on the pitch, but also a special thing when his speeches are appropriate – and when not.
Already on Sunday afternoon this became clear once again. Then the “kicker” reported that this has been decided by Von Müller, who has been in the club since 2000, and Müller would no longer receive a new contract in Munich. So did the eternal Müller actually put it out at Bayern?
Not least because of the sporting development and the supporting role, to which Müller’s work is now limited under chief coach Vincent Kompany, this trend has already emerged in recent months. The matching reports of the past few days now already give this officially outstanding decision.
At least in this form, she would be a bit surprising. Why? On the one hand, because Müller is reportedly like to continue his career and still wants football.
And on the other hand, because sports director Max Eberl had declared the possible contract extension with Müller as a pure form in January. “Thomas doesn’t need to negotiate,” said Eberl at a press conference at the time and stated: “If he says he wants to continue, then we will look in the eye, then let’s take a look at the squad, and then it will go on. This will probably be the shortest conversation! We have already spoken to him.”
If you read these statements, you can understand why Müller is very surprised about the sudden turnaround of Bavaria – and specifically that no new contract offer has been made. If it stays that way, that would eventually be a broken word by Eberl, which would be a liar.
It has already become clear in the past few weeks that the 51-year-old was verbally sprinkled a little too far. At the end of February at the cinema premiere of the Thomas Müller documentary “one like no one” said honorary president Hoeneß when asked by T-Online: “I would like to have Thomas at Bayern, I would still like to have it here in five years. But it cannot be the solution in the long run that he is sitting on the bench. I would not like a career end.” That is Müller’s great career “not worthy”.
And specifically to the free ticket for Müller in terms of contract extension and this as a supposed matter of form: “I don’t know that.” I don’t know that FC Bayern and Thomas Müller have to make a decision together, because we are not on the bazaar where everyone can do what they want. “