For Honorary President Uli Hoeneß, the outcome of the Champions League showdown between FC Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain will have no impact on the long-term coaching project with Julian Nagelsmann at the German record champions.
“I think it’s being totally overplayed. In my opinion, the outcome of the game on Wednesday has nothing to do with Julian Nagelsmann’s engagement,” said Hoeneß as a guest speaker at an event of the “Abendzeitung” in Munich.
Hoeneß argued that the knockout games against PSG’s star ensemble with world champion Lionel Messi and World Cup top scorer Kylian Mbappé cannot be compared at all with the Munich quarter-finals in the first year under Nagelsmann.
“You can be eliminated in the round of 16 against Paris. There’s a huge difference if I’m eliminated by Villarreal or by Paris Saint-Germain,” he said. After the 1-0 win in Paris, Hoeneß is confident about the decisive second leg this Wednesday (9:00 p.m. / DAZN) in the Allianz Arena. “We got a great starting position in Paris.”
Hoeneß teases Paris
The former manager and president sees Qatari-funded PSG as a “total counterpart” to his Bayern Munich side structurally. “On Wednesday we’re dealing with a club where money doesn’t matter. They can buy anything – and lose to us,” he teased given the current situation.
Hoeneß believes in an overall successful Bayern season. With a view to the 35-year-old Nagelsmann, whose coaching contract runs until 2026, he also remarked: “If everything turns out the way I think it will, we will no longer be discussing the Nagelsmann issue in six to eight weeks.”