How will record-breaking German football champions FC Bayern position itself at management level in the future? After “Sky” recently reported that a comeback by Uli Hoeneß as a kind of interim boss was “almost impossible”, a new report is now going in a different direction.
Supervisory Board member Uli Hoeneß could “at least temporarily” move back to the front row at Bayern, according to “Bild”. The influence of the 71-year-old, which he repeatedly asserts in the background, is undisputedly still great at the top Munich club. In 2019, the native of Ulm decided not to be re-elected as club president and handed over the business to Herbert Hainer.
A Hoeneß return to the operative business is only possible these days because the club leadership around CEO Oliver Kahn is counted. Hoeneß is now considered a Kahn critic, it is said. On May 22, the future of Kahn is to be decided at a meeting of the supervisory board, of which Hoeneß is still a member.
Oliver Kahn, who took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board from Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 2021, is partly to blame for the sporting crisis of the German record champions. Club icon Lothar Matthäus had accused his former teammate in the course of Nagelsmann’s dismissal that the club feeling “mia san mia” had been lost.
Matthäus: Hoeneß visit to FC Bayern for Kahn “not a good sign”
Matthäus now added to “Sky” that Hoeneß’ surprising visit to training last Wednesday could be seen as a clear signal to Kahn. It is “not a good sign” for Kahn that the honorary president “has to leave Tegernsee to go to Munich and speak demonstratively to the coach during training on the pitch,” said the former Bayern professional. “Of course he weakens Oliver Kahn, definitely.”
Matthäus said that Hoeneß, a member of the supervisory board, deliberately staged his visit. “I think he sent a signal, also to Oliver Kahn: You have to be more active there, you have to approach people – that’s Bayern Munich.”