Sports director Dragan Tarlac was in the hall. However, since his departure has already been decided at the end of this season, he apparently did not feel called upon to explain the disappointing season.
A lot of work for Leibenath
Bayern is now pressing the reset button on its basketball project. Thorsten Leibenath, who will now become the new sports director, will not officially start his duties in Munich until the new season. But he was able to see from a distance on Sunday that there was a lot of work waiting for him. Bayern definitely want to attack again with him – in all competitions. There are likely to be some changes in the squad.
With the former championship captain Anton Gavel, a new head coach is to move from Bamberg to Munich and replace 76-year-old Svetislav Pešić, who is retiring without the championship title. Pešić admitted after the defeat: “As a coach, I have never been able to create a team that comes back in difficult moments of the game.”
At the end of last year, Marko Pešić’s father followed world champion coach Gordon Herbert. The old master stabilized Bavaria. Without a playoff defeat until the final, the happy ending took shape. In the end, Pešić and Bayern were still denied. Although they were already 2-1 up in the best-of-five series, Berlin still triumphed with 3-2 victories in the final.
Hoeneß intervenes in the Zoff about Bayern’s dream coach
Leibenath and Gavel have already worked together successfully in Ulm. Now, as the new management duo, they are supposed to get Bayern back on the road to success. However, a solution still needs to be found first Zoff about a possible transfer fee for Gavel to find.
After he terminated his contract, which was actually valid until the summer of 2027, due to a formal error, the Bambergers recently publicly accused him of breaching the contract. In any case, Bayern now don’t want to pay a transfer fee for Gavel. Bamberg’s club patron Michael Stoschek even reported unsuccessful attempts at mediation with Hainer.
On the sidelines of the championship final, Hoeneß also publicly intervened in the dispute over Bayern’s desired coach. “I personally believe that we will have Anton Gavel here as coach next season. We have to try to find a diplomatic solution,” said the Bayern patron during the half-time break at Dyn. The drama that followed in the second half of the championship final made it clear to Hoeneß and the Bayern basketball players how urgently they now need a new start.
