As is well known, FC Bayern is looking for a new coach to take over the team from next summer. It has now become known what the Munich team’s schedule looks like. There isn’t much time left – but according to a media report, an emergency scenario is completely out of the question.
“It’s important that we do the right thing and not the quickest thing possible,” Bayern Munich’s sports director Christoph Freund made clear to “Sky” on Tuesday when he was asked about the schedule in the search for a successor to Thomas Tuchel: “That, I think I, is in the foreground.”
The Austrian did not reveal when FC Bayern would like to present a new head coach at the latest. However, the Munich “Abendzeitung” now knows what the club’s schedule looks like: The decision on the coaching bench should be made in March, but at the latest in April. The aim is to achieve clarity and planning security on Säbener Straße.
Because: The answer to the question of who will be in charge of FC Bayern’s fortunes on the sidelines from next season is likely to be of great interest to a large proportion of the players. Several stars in the squad only have a contract with the German record champions until 2025 and could be thinking more and more about their own future.
Spectacular Tuchel U-turn at FC Bayern?
Meanwhile, the search for a new coach is proving difficult. Preferred candidate Xabi Alonso is tied to Bayer Leverkusen until 2026; according to the new sports director Max Eberl, no discussions have yet been held with the Spaniard. “It’s not an easy thing,” Eberl recently stated on “Sky” with a view to the search for a successor in general.
According to “AZ”, it is not a conceivable scenario that FC Bayern would make a spectacular U-turn with their current coach, Thomas Tuchel. Ex-national player Mario Basler recently expressed this idea to “ran.de”: “There’s nothing wrong with saying at the end: We’ve thought about everything again, we’re keeping Thomas.”
The newspaper’s assessment is now shared by long-time Bundesliga commentator Marcel Reif. The television veteran said on “Bild TV”: “I think that’s unthinkable. They made that decision – and I think he (Thomas Tuchel, editor’s note) too. Everything hurt him. And it hurts him even more now when he sees them playing.”