Instead of Harry Kane and BVB’s brilliant “Super Bayern, super Bayern – hey, hey!”, the German football media has been discussing for days only Thomas Tuchel and his scolding of experts. Calculation of the trainer, brand sharpening or just a freak of nature? What is happening? A gloss that promises enlightenment but of course does not deliver.
TT. Culinary sensible people think of a taxi plate, i.e. the Greek-Ruhrpotian ladder to heaven made of gyros, fries and currywurst. Many car lovers think of an Audi. Football and Bayern fans, on the other hand, think of Thomas Tuchel. He managed to get everyone to only talk about him – and is therefore not the first (Munich) coach.
When Thomas Tuchel woke up from troubled dreams after Bayern’s cup defeat in Saarbrücken, he found himself transformed in his bed into an expert eater. TT had always secretly eaten up the nation’s media football masters and their journalistic disciples. But now the Bayern coach has an appetite to show this.
So Tuchel decided to give the “Sky” explainers Lothar Matthäus and Dietmar Hamann the march. Only with (for whatever reason) a good-humored ironic lip on the PK before the big game in Dortmund. And then (for whatever reason) visibly annoyed after his team’s 4-0 win at the Westfalenstadion.
Tuchel didn’t even want to talk to Matthäus anymore, leaving the record national player standing at the “Sky” table like Lothar did to the Yugoslavs in the 1990 World Cup opener – which some moralist journalists, in their limitless exaltation of the football circus, immediately interpreted as a declaration of bankruptcy and an unacceptable sign the debate culture in this country.
Everyone is talking about Thomas Tuchel now. For days. Just as a real hit of tzatziki after the taxi plate stays in your mouth for days – albeit benevolently of course -, Tuchel now hangs in the click and print columns of the Republic, the football councils digest Tuchel’s garlic yoghurt in their rounds.
FC Bayern: Tuchel on the trail of Rehhagel and van Gaal
If TT wants to sharpen its own brand with its new communication strategy, you can safely congratulate it. He succeeded. The Swabian used to be considered a stuffy, grumbling (Swabian for complaining) football nerd and perfectionist. Colorless, boring, humorless, the sports/entertainment journals blared.
Now Tuchel is suddenly the Motzki who is attracting everyone’s attention. Who dares to challenge the mighty TV heaven and its experts with pithy sayings and an imperious manner. By Zeus! And because that is the case, there is now a lot being said and written about Tuchel and noticeably little about goal monster Harry Kane.
Is there calculation behind it? Possibly. At FC Bayern, the tree burns after every defeat – after a cup embarrassment at a third division team. Tuchel is looking for a fight so that his players can have peace? Just like Otto Rehhagel, Jose Mourinho and Louis van Gaal once did. L’Etat, c’est moi? Or are “Didi” and “Loddar” really getting on his nerves?
If you believe Tuchel, the big palaver is over! TT has promised a transformation back from being an expert eater to an ignorant person. The trainer grumbled that he didn’t want to say anything, or really anything, to experts and the like in the future. Tuchel now has to measure himself against these words when Demolition-Didi and Legend-Lothar start moping because Bayern are on the 11th matchday, November 11th. (Cheers and Tush), losing at home against Heidenheim.
If it stays at the weekend’s TT, King Otto’s dictum really applies in Munich from now on. “When the game is over you will be in grave danger – so watch your tongue!”
Martin Armbruster