The era Thomas Müller at Bayern comes to an end. Unlike announced, the association did not meet the player for another year in Munich. An unworthy handling of the personified “Mia-San-Mia”?
The era of the exceptional player Thomas Müller at Bayern comes to an end. The association has no longer offered the player who has been playing the record champion since he was ten and has been a member of the professional team for 17 years. Müller himself would have liked to extend something: “However, the club consciously decided not to negotiate a new contract for the next season with me,” wrote the 35-year-old in his statement. He respects this step “whom the board and the supervisory board have certainly not made it easy.”
Change of course at Eberl
In January, sports director Max Eberl announced: “The conversations with Thomas will certainly be very short. We have already spoken to him and postpone the future. Thomas does not need to negotiate.
Eberl cannot now fulfill his public promise: “This decision is understandably anything but easy for us, and in the end the squad planning, in which we focus on the future, was decisive,” said the sports director.
It was due to the Sales?
FC-Bayern patron Uli Hoeneß put into this notch in February, suggested the end of the offensive player at the end of the offensive player-at the premiere of Müller’s documentary-the contract negotiations: “I already believe that FC Bayern and Thomas Müller have to make a decision together, because we are not on the bazaar where everyone can do what they want”. Müller probably earns 17 million in the current season. It is not known whether he had expressed similarly high salary ideas. At least the negotiations did not seem to go according to the pattern that Mehmet Scholl had once described with Hoeneß: “They call a sum, I say yes.”
The result is now known: the club icon cannot decide according to free pieces how it wants to design its end of his career. The wish of another year in Munich remains unfulfilled. Müller is faced with the choice, end his active career earlier than he wants – or move again. Far from his homeland and your own horse’s stud.
In the video: Max Eberl provides Müller in January Contract extension prospect
Clever farewell FC Bayern legend
Even if that is a shock for many fans, the end of this era did not suddenly came. Thomas Tuchel’s slow farewell to Thomas Müllers from the club, which he had belonged to since he was tenth. Since 2009, Müller had confirmed the Van Gaalsche wisdom “Müller always plays” year after year. But this role was no longer that of Thomas Müller. Under Thomas Tuchel, Müller was now sitting on the bench with almost half of all games.
The coach, who shortly after his arrival in Munich, justified the disposal of the club legend at the Champions League duels against Manchester City with the fact that these games were “no Thomas Müller games”, hardly rely on Müller. Not many perceived this as an affront, against someone who shaped FC Bayern, like only a few before him. Record player, twelve agent German champion, two-time Champions League winner, record template. Müller was the personalized “Mia-San-Mia” for years.
Home European Championship as a reward for new ones Understanding of roles
From an absolute difference, notorious in all of Europe for his unorthodox style, for his footballing intelligence and for his wit, had suddenly become a concern. For the club and for the player himself, the question suddenly had the question of how to deal with the late autumn of a legendary football career.
Müller quickly found an answer. He accepted the new situation, sat down on the bench without creating great background noises and always put the club in the first place in interviews. The coach’s prolonged arm became of the interpreter. One who coached the team – and, when he was needed, was there. Müller reinvented himself – and was rewarded by Julian Nagelsmann with the nomination for the home European Championship.
The dream of a big farewell lives
Even under the new trainer Vincent Kompany, Müller’s role no longer changed. The farewell to cope with Müller. He contributed only ten of his 520 goal participations for FC Bayern this season. It remains to be seen how FC Bayern will manage the departure of the personified “Mia-San-Mia”. But Müller is still an FC Bayern player. The fans can still absorb the well -lifted picture of the somewhat sloppy red jersey on the thin torso of the Upper Bavaria – and maybe Müller can enlarge his legend a little. After all, there are two big titles to win: “It would be a dream for me to bring the master shell back home and reach the longed-for final Dahoam at the end of May. I will give everything for that!” Said Müller in his farewell statement.
