FC Bayern: Uli Hoeneß defends transfers – Rice & Caicedo too expensive

Bayern boss likes Leverkusen’s game

Uli Hoeneß is a fan of Bayer 04’s style of play. He also “watches every Leverkusen game if possible because they play very entertaining, passionate football,” said the honorary president of FC Bayern in an interview with “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“. Before the Bundesliga summit meeting on Saturday (6:30 p.m./Sky) between the two clubs, that means little from the 72-year-old’s point of view: “Well, it may be that they play the best football, but there’s no excuse for that Title.”

Before the home game against the record champions, the undefeated Leverkusen team are two points ahead. The Spanish coach Xabi Alonso played a large part in this. Hoeneß is also enthusiastic about the former Bayern professional as a coach. “As a player I know Xabi up close, as a coach I only know him from a distance. But I have to say from that that he is also implementing what he indicated here as a strategist in Leverkusen as a coach,” said Hoeneß.

Hoeneß dislikes the fact that Munich coach Thomas Tuchel is perceived to be coming off worse in public opinion, even though Bayern are also consistently scoring points in the Bundesliga – as is the further increase in expectations. “I can still remember: when we became champions, everyone was in each other’s arms. Today everyone says that if we haven’t won the championship at Easter, it’s a season to forget.”

But one thing is also clear: the Bayern bosses are not yet completely satisfied with the way the games are being played under Tuchel. “We, and I know also our coach, just want to offer our fans even better entertainment on a more regular basis,” said Bayern supervisory board member Hoeneß, who attributed great luck to rival Leverkusen with the transfers in the summer. “Nobody else saw Boniface. And no one knew Grimaldo before that,” said Hoeneß, who was not referring to Bayer 04’s scouting. “But you also have to be lucky when a player comes to a new country, to a new team, to a new club for it to have such an impact.”

Hoeneß defends transfers from FC Bayern – Rice and Caicedo are too expensive

Hoeneß sees the summer transfers he made for Harry Kane (30) as entirely positive. “Overall, we have eliminated the weak points in the squad. We knew we needed a number nine. We knew we wanted to buy a good new defender. We did that. We just didn’t do a good job with the right-back. “You have to say that clearly,” admitted the Bayern boss. “However, in the end we didn’t want to force Benjamin Pavard to stay. The fact that we won’t be finished until August 31st shouldn’t happen again.”

Hoeneß doesn’t see the fact that the squad wasn’t too big as a problem. “Today the whole world calls for new players when someone is injured for three weeks. I often lack common sense in this business. And I have to tell you one more thing: the hype about these transfers in these transfer broadcasts often leaves me stunned. I once said: A cage full of fools. The reports in recent transfer periods have only confirmed my opinion.”

From the statements you can once again see that the Uli stopped in 2000.
With him, the club will not be able to develop as it needs to. …

Part of these transfer shipments was also Tuchel’s desire for a new “six”; Declan Rice (25; Arsenal) and Moisés Caicedo (22; Chelsea) were traded, who ultimately changed clubs for over 100 million euros. “He’s a very good player, but with all due respect: I wouldn’t spend 120 million euros on him even today. We as FC Bayern simply cannot afford that,” said Hoeneß about Rice, who added with regard to Caicedo: “I thought to myself: Spend 127 million euros on him? Others are welcome to do that. But FC Bayern will certainly never do that because it is simply too much money for us – regardless of the qualities of this player.”

A commitment would also have blocked the path for talented Aleksandar Pavlovic (19), “who in my opinion can become a regular player at Bayern Munich in the future, he wouldn’t be in the first team if we had a flying six or something like that “That means we bought it,” says Hoeneß with a smile.

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