Because the season runs four months, in mid-June the club World Cup begins. With regard to this tournament, you need a broad squad – and that could be the chance for him and some other professionals to play in the foreground. And until then you never know what’s going on. Is one of the regulars injured? After all, Gnabry and Coman are prone to injury. How about the Champions League? Does Thomas Müller end after the season – and thus theoretically space for Tel in closer rotation? These are considerations that Bayern will certainly deal with.
Müller will also deal with the question of the time for the end of the career. Finally, there was only speculation over the coming summer or 2026, and I cannot imagine that he actually considered continuing to continue. He will not go abroad either, he is simply too firmly rooted in Munich.
At the moment he has very well arranged with his role not being the regular player who he was over so many years. However, it is still very important for the team, for the club’s external representation, for the image. Like Manuel Neuer, he must now make the decision when the right time came. Both Müller and Neuer justified it through their incredible services to FC Bayern that you come to you from the club side and ask: Do you want to hang up for another year? We would be ready. And then it’s up to them.
Personally, I believe that Müller naturally believes in the “Finale Dahoam” and, as perhaps the last big goal, made it out. And if that actually works – then it would theoretically be the perfect worthy end.
A worthy end of the group phase of the newly established Champions League was this last matchday on Wednesday. What I had already said when I announced the revised constellation has arrived: every match day had its own excitement, until the end a lot of clubs could not be sure whether they made it into the next round had to give everything again. This was very rare in old mode. I find the new mode exciting and also advocate maintaining it.