After coach Thomas Tuchel repeatedly failed to call him into the starting XI at FC Bayern, rumors spread that Thomas Müller was considering leaving Munich. The offensive player himself made fun of them. Record national player Lothar Matthäus is sure, however, that the 33-year-old club icon is seething.
“It wasn’t a Thomas Müller game,” was Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel’s simple explanation after the disappointing quarter-final loss to Manchester City in the Champions League as to why Thomas Müller only made a short appearance and poured so much oil on the fire. that he himself recently regretted having chosen these words.
Lothar Matthäus also finds it difficult to understand why Müller was left out, but he also finds President Herbert Hainer’s handling of the cause very unfortunate.
“And even if not every game he played was world class, he still belongs in the starting XI, especially now. Thomas clenches his fist in his pocket and now puts on a good face to the bad game,” Matthäus relates in his column on “Sky”. clearly pro Müller position. The veteran, who only ever played for Bayern throughout his career, will certainly be “disappointed and angry that he didn’t play a role in some very important games.”
Bayern boss in the pillory
Matthäus therefore clearly warns Tuchel not to bring Müller from the start in the important top game against RB Leipzig on the upcoming Bundesliga matchday. If he dared to do this and ultimately lost the championship, “the voices of the people, the fans and the bosses will be very loud. And I don’t think Tuchel wants to do that to himself,” said Matthäus.
Speaking of the voice of the bosses: the fact that President Herbert Hainer called Müller after the 6-0 win over FC Schalke 04 and his return to the starting eleven as “essential” really annoys the former Bayern Munich player. “The fact that the Bayern president gets involved and publicly believes that Thomas [Müller, d.Red.] showed how indispensable he was wasn’t quite as clever,” wrote the 62-year-old.
“The president shouldn’t talk publicly into the line-up for the coach. That’s not part of his job and it’s another case that has been opened unnecessarily. In general, of course, the head coach himself opened this construction site and now has to moderate it somehow week after week “, Matthew justified his attitude.