Club icon Sepp Maier does not believe that there is a risk of a physical altercation between the ousted CEO Oliver Kahn and his successor Jan-Christian Dreesen at Bayern.
“Oli is impulsive and spontaneous, but it certainly wouldn’t have gotten that far,” said Maier in an interview with “Sport1”.
According to rumors, Kahn was denied his trip to the season finale at 1. FC Köln after his dismissal at the end of last week because the club management feared a conflict with Dreesen.
However, he could well imagine, explained Maier, that the former goalkeeper titan “freaked out” in conversation with the chairman of the supervisory board, Herbert Hainer, and honorary president Uli Hoeneß about his dismissal. “I know Oli, that was definitely the case. But the upper management at FC Bayern should also take a look at their own noses, because the conversation was held a week too early.”
Maier criticized the timing of the dismissal of Kahn and sports director Hasan Salihamidzic as “catastrophic. I didn’t understand that and it’s not worthy of FC Bayern.”
“This is no longer my FC Bayern”
The 1974 World Champion and 1972 European Champion is deeply disappointed in “his” club. “It’s not my Bayern Munich anymore. I’m still very interested in what’s going on there, after all I’ve worked at the club for 50 years. And I can say that 90 percent of the time I’ve only experienced positive things. Among the unpleasant ones The other ten percent include the current situation.”
The Causa Kahn, Maier continues, has a “bad aftertaste. You just don’t do that, no matter what happened. You should have said goodbye to Brazzo and Oli with dignity. The two didn’t deserve that. It was bad style. The Both have done so much for FC Bayern, they are legends. It would be similar if the bosses banned me from the house after this interview”.
FC Bayern: Oliver Kahn’s administration “an absurdity”
Nevertheless, Kahn’s promotion to club boss in the summer of 2021 was “the wrong decision”, Maier complained. “Oli was always a lone fighter. He didn’t look left and right. That might work as a goalkeeper, but not when you’re in a managerial position at Bayern Munich. Then it’s absurd.”
In the past season, “many mistakes were made. Not just by Oli,” said Maier, who praised the conciliatory tones between the parties in recent days. “They’re all adults,” said Bayern’s longtime keeper and goalkeeping coach.