FC Bayern’s sporting goals are slipping away. There is still a job guarantee for coach Thomas Tuchel, but for how long? Maybe they want to wait until sports director Max Eberl is in office before making the groundbreaking decision.
FC Bayern is threatened with a season without a title. Three competitive defeats in a row, like now at the league summit in Leverkusen (0:3), in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League at Lazio Rome (0:1) and Bayern lost 2:3 in Bochum last digested in May 2015.
The crisis can no longer be explained away and speculation is raging as to how long Thomas Tuchel will remain in the coaching chair of the record champions. For the 50-year-old, it’s part of the business. The discussions about him and his job have been going on “for what feels like the whole season. Even when we won games,” said Tuchel after the 2:3 in Bochum. “Anything that could go wrong has gone wrong,” said the football teacher, trying to summarize the situation in a relaxed manner.
“Vows of loyalty are usually over after a week”
Tuchel still has support from the management team. CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen offered a job guarantee. However, he “doesn’t think anything of these monstrous statements of support for trainers” because “these oaths of loyalty are usually over after a week.” In addition, this is not an issue “that we are currently dealing with.” Tuchel will “of course” still be FC Bayern’s coach next week.
It seems unlikely that the Munich team, who are currently not performing well on the pitch, are not thinking about the coach. After eleven championship titles in a row, the twelfth is currently out of reach. The Bavarians, who are used to success, also had to write off the DFB Cup early on and in the Champions League, after the defeat in Rome, it doesn’t exactly look like a smooth march through to the final.
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Is FC Bayern waiting for Max Eberl?
The former Bundesliga coach Peter Neururer finds clear words about the state of the team: “Bayern Munich has not developed further in terms of sport during Tuchel’s time.” Although the staff has been changed and improved, the team has “not become stronger,” said the 68-year-old in the Bayern 1 cult program “Today in the Stadium”.
Maybe the Munich team doesn’t want to deal with a new coach at the moment because they are making this decision in line with the future Want to meet sports director Max Eberl. It starts on March 1st. Until then, Tuchel could still be safely in the saddle.
Potential successors not really on the market
But what do the alternatives actually look like in the middle of the current season? Jürgen Klopp is in Liverpool until the end of the season and will then probably take the long-awaited break. Former Bayern star Xabi Alonso is successful with Leverkusen and is also being courted by Liverpool.
And ex-Bayern coach Hansi Flick? The 58-year-old was already a firefighter after Kovac’s exit and got Bayern back on the road to success. In 2021 he left Bayern as triple coach. At that time, the problematic relationship with the then sports director Hasan Salihamidzic was also crucial. But Salihamidzic is Bayern history and the former national coach has also reconciled with honorary president Uli Hoeneß, according to “Sport Bild”.
Star coach José Mourinho is also already appearing in the newspapers as a potential successor to Tuchel. According to “Bild”, the Portuguese has even taken German lessons and is “in the mood for Bavaria”. But recently the man who sensationally led FC Porto to triumph in the Champions League in 2004 seemed to be a discontinued model.
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Source: BR24 on BR television February 19, 2024 – 6:30 p.m
