On Saturday, the season for FC Bayern could finally be in the bucket. DFB Cup and Champions League are already playful, in the championship a small football miracle is needed in a long-distance duel with BVB. Former Munich Olaf Thon no longer believes in it and settles accounts with coach Thomas Tuchel’s team.
The 1: 3 home defeat against RB Leipzig is still omnipresent on Säbener Straße. It had been a long time since Bayern were so helpless as in the second half.
Olaf Thon was also shocked. “Aspiration and reality have little to do at FC Bayern this season. In the game against Leipzig, the plug was pulled after 30 minutes. A super player like Sadio Mané comes in and doesn’t do anything, zero point zero. The whole team looks burned out, that’s it 1: 1 no rebellion, no punch”, complained the former national player in an interview with the “Leipziger Volkszeitung”.
The record champions now urgently need “fire and attractiveness back in”, demanded Thon, who considers defending the title this season to be “impossible”. There is “no way around” the Dortmund triumph.
FC Bayern: Olaf Thon supports Oliver Kahn
At the same time, Thon defended FC Bayern’s management team, which had come under heavy criticism. The 57-year-old took sides for both CEO Oliver Kahn and coach Thomas Tuchel.
“I don’t think the fact that everything and everyone is now being questioned is a good thing. Oliver Kahn has only been CEO of FC Bayern for a short time, he should be given the opportunity to develop. Following in the footsteps of Uli Hoeneß is not only difficult, but impossible. You can’t replace a Hoeneß one-to-one,” Thon clarified.
He called Tuchel a “very experienced man with a supervita” who should prove himself again in 2023/2024. “A change of coach doesn’t make any sense. Tuchel is taking the rap for the problems that arose under Julian Nagelsmannn. He was too young for this task, in these spheres and at this club you don’t have a chance without experience,” said Thon.