At FC Bayern, the results do not match expectations. Matthäus can imagine Tuchel leaving before the end of the season – and has an idea for an interim solution.
The former Bayern player (1984 to 1988 and 1992 to 2000) Lothar Matthäus still follows his former club intensively. Given the current situation at the club, he has brought club icon Hermann Gerland into play as a possible interim coach of FC Bayern in the event of a separation from Thomas Tuchel before the end of the season.
The 69-year-old Gerland is a “people catcher” and knows “what makes Bayern Munich tick,” said the former Bayern captain on the football talk show “Sky90” on Sunday. He knows almost all the players personally and also has a “really big name” in the area. Matthäus continues: “What does he do? He’s supposed to bring the team together as a unit, because they can play football.”
FC Bayern needs a coach who can “grab” the team
Matthäus explained: “If all eleven play what they can, they are the favorites for the Champions League.” To do this, however, there needs to be a coach at FC Bayern who can “give the team a grip and motivate them. Who gives the players self-confidence again. Someone who brings calm.”
Former Bundesliga coach Christoph Daum described Gerland’s idea as a “huge suggestion” from Matthäus and also raved about Bayern’s long-time assistant and young coach: “He has all the qualities a Bayern coach needs.”
“They don’t get along” – impression of a “patchwork family”
Tuchel, who will still be in the coaching bench of the German record champions in the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Lazio Rome on Tuesday (from 9 p.m. in the t-online live ticker), will probably not be able to stay until the end of the season, said Matthäus. “The risk is great. They don’t understand each other, and if you don’t understand each other, you’re no longer there for each other.”
Matthäus criticized Tuchel’s behavior since the announcement of the early separation at the end of the season. The 62-year-old said that after weak games like last Friday at SC Freiburg (2:2), he would only point the finger at the team: “He belittles the players, but doesn’t try to make mistakes in himself to search.” Tuchel is making “many ditches” for himself.
Daum generally misses cohesion at Bayern. “There is no unity at all anymore,” said the 70-year-old. “For me it gives the impression of a patchwork family where something has been put together, which sometimes seems more accidental to me.”