“Go too much under”
Ex-Bayern star criticizes trainer Company
07/19/2025 – 01:24 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Markus Babbel praises FC Bayern coach Vincent Kompany, but also has criticism: The offspring is not sufficiently recognized.
Former Bayern player Markus Babbel criticized the coach of FC Bayern Munich, Vincent Kompany, in a podcast for his dealings with young players. In the “Absolut Football” podcast, the former international said that he would like Kompany want to rely more on talents from the Bayern campus. He could “tell him” that no players were trained there who could keep up in the Bundesliga.
Babbel criticized that the topic in the current squad planning “is” too lost “. In his view, the club has to place more emphasis on its own youth work. As an example, he cited midfielder Aleksandar Pavlović, who has established himself under the former coach Thomas Tuchel and has now developed into a national player.
The former Bayern professional praised Kompany for his previous work with the record champions, but emphasized: “The next step must be for me to also make it to the first team to bring talented boys from FC Bayern Campus.”
Babbel expressed incomprehension that the association regularly invests large sums in transfers, although the young area has been financially funded for years. “You butter every time, the devil knows 30, 40 million in the offspring – and nobody comes out,” he said. Babbel emphasized several times that he does not believe that it lacks quality in the Bayern campus.
In his active time for FC Bayern Munich, among other things, with which he became a German champion and once UEFA Cup winner, as well as Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart and for the English Premier League club FC Liverpool. He has been working as a trainer and TV expert since his career.