That’s what the national coach says about it
Thomas Müller as assistant coach for the DFB?
October 9, 2025 – 7:17 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
A return of Thomas Müller to the DFB? National coach Julian Nagelsmann was confronted with this question on Thursday.
After the quarter-final exit at the home European Championship against Spain (1:2 nV) and a total of 131 international matches, Thomas Müller retired from the national team in the summer of 2024. The 2014 world champion only wanted to concentrate on FC Bayern before starting a new phase of his life in Canada with the Vancouver Whitecaps this summer.
On Thursday evening, one day before the important World Cup qualifying game against Luxembourg (from 8:45 p.m. in the live ticker on t-online), national coach Julian Nagelsmann was suddenly asked about a Müller comeback at the DFB – as a possible assistant coach. Ernst Tanner, ex-Hoffenheim boss and now sports director at US club Philadelphia Union, discussed this idea as an “innovative idea” in an interview with “Sky”.
Julian Nagelsmann said: “Thomas is definitely a candidate who could hold such a position. But he still has a contract until the winter of 2026. As far as I know, they will start training again around June 26, 2026. I think the coach is not so enthusiastic when Thomas says I won’t come until two or three weeks later because I still want to be an assistant coach.”
So a Müller comeback at the DFB seems out of the question for the World Cup – and after that? You could probably talk to the national coach about that. “What isn’t happening now can happen at some point in the future. Of course he has what it takes to be a head coach, although I don’t know if he wants that, and also an assistant coach,” said Nagelsmann.
And further: “I’ve spoken to him a few times, he’s really enjoying himself in Vancouver at the moment, he’s also playing well, scoring a lot of goals, has a lot of assists and is trying to advance football. I think he wants to do that beyond the World Cup.” That’s why, says Nagelsmann, he’s “leaving it wide open that he won’t be taking on a position as an assistant coach this summer, neither for me nor for any other coach.”