Captain Manuel Neuer also sees the team as responsible for coach Thomas Tuchel’s failure at FC Bayern.
“It reflects badly on all of us, on the team, on the players, if we haven’t managed to continue with such a top coach,” said the 2014 world champion after the 2-1 win against RB Leipzig in a TV interview on “Sky”.
“It’s not always the teacher’s fault when grades are bad. We have responsibility when a good coach is fired,” emphasized Neuer: “We want to continue the path professionally to the end. In the speech, he (Tuchel, d. Editor) didn’t say anything, he hired us really well.”
FC Bayern announced on Wednesday that they would be separating from Tuchel by mutual agreement at the end of the season. The 50-year-old’s contract in Munich actually ran until the summer of 2025.
“Everyone has to have a guilty conscience, not just the coaching team, us too,” Neuer made it clear with a view to the premature end of the liaison with the former BVB coach.
FC Bayern: Thomas Müller “not surprised” by Tuchel-Aus
Neuer now sees the professionals in particular as having a responsibility. “You have different players in the team than before, when things went a little by themselves,” said the 37-year-old: “We haven’t had this self-image of beating teams in this jersey this season or in the recent past. That We have to work our way back.”
Thomas Müller said that the change in the coaching bench “did not surprise him” because of the three defeats in a row before the RB game. The FC Bayern veteran said: “You can see that the tablecloth is not completely cut, even though we certainly had our problems in the past, otherwise this situation would not have arisen.”
You have to “keep in mind that we are in extreme day-to-day business,” said Müller. “We are not a place for developments, it has to work every Saturday and every Wednesday. So it’s of course always a very hot tire for us.”