Ex-player wants to gain experience
Fan protest against Boateng’s internship – this is how Bayern feels about it
October 18, 2025 – 9:10 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
Jérôme Boateng was a FC Bayern player for a long time. The fans don’t speak well of the ex-defender. Now the club has commented on a possible internship.
Jérôme Boateng had recently announced several times that he would like to work as a coach in the future after his career. But to do this he needs to gain experience – and would like to do this at his former club FC Bayern. Especially because he knows coach Vincent Kompany well from his sporting career. The two played together at HSV and Manchester City. But the fans of the German record champions don’t like this plan.
You have started a petition on the “change.org” platform. This is entitled: “Setting limits against misogynistic violence: Jérôme Boateng is not allowed to return to FC Bayern.” So far, 4,477 people (as of October 18, 8:31 a.m.) have signed the petition.
In the description of the signature collection, the initiators point out that the ex-footballer was warned by a court in 2024 for intentionally causing bodily harm to his ex-girlfriend.
Vincent Kompany recently said at a press conference about Boateng’s plans with the German record champions: “We have a common past and are good friends. Come to us for a few weeks? Share your experience as a top defender? Of course. I would always invite you to do so, 100 percent. That is very valuable.”
In addition to the coach, a spokesman for the club also spoke to “Bild”. He told the newspaper: “Jérôme asked the coach if he could watch the training sessions with us on a few days. That’s not a job. If the coach promises him that and the timing fits, we have nothing against it.”
According to the newspaper, it will be an internship lasting around a week.
It is not the first time that fans have resisted Jérôme Boateng’s return to FC Bayern. Two years ago, the then coach Thomas Tuchel considered bringing Boateng to Säbener Straße as a defender. The player was without a contract at the time.
It didn’t happen, even though Boateng trained in Munich in the meantime. However, Tuchel didn’t understand the fans at the time and said: “I have little sympathy for that. That’s a hair-trigger insult. A little too anonymous and a little too striking.” Kompany now said: “I would invite every Bayern legend with good intentions for a week so that they can then share their experiences. Our boys still want to learn.”