First Max Eberl says publicly: Thomas Müller himself decides on his future at FC Bayern. A few months later it is clear: there is no new contract – and Eberl has to justify itself in the “double pass”. “I wasn’t that smart,” he says. Translated: I drained it. Anyone who puts the club’s face in such a position at FC Bayern and then has to admit this as a mistake has a problem. Anyone who loses Müller loses the club.
Eberl had come to modernize Bavaria, slack up the squad and reduce salary costs. The opposite is done: the squad is larger and more expensive, but not better. Players like Gnabry, Coman or Sané were not sold. Very few lit from the entrances. That alone would be worth criticism – but there is more.
Because the embarrassing search for coach last summer has publicly damaged the club. Cancellation of Nagelsmann, Rangnick, Alonso – months of chaos that ended in the Vincent Kompany emergency solution. Yes, he does it well. But Eberl was lucky, no concept. And now? Now he also loses the backing of the bosses. And with Müller.
The truth is, if so much critical information penetrates from the inside, this is no coincidence. The feeling arises: Now everything comes out. And: The FC Bayern system only protects who it really wants to protect. Max Eberl is no longer part of it. The names Freund, Rangnick, Krösche, Gomez are not a plan B – they have long been planned A. Eberl’s end. It is no longer about that. It’s all about that when.