Bavaria’s honorary president follows
“This is the truth”: Hoeneß comments on Eberl again
Updated on 10.09.2025 – 2:50 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Uli Hoeneß caused a sensation with statements on a TV show-it was primarily about sports director Max Eberl. Now the honorary president has again spoken about the topic.
Bayern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß contested a confident with Max Eberl. During a performance in the Sport1 “double pass”, the long-time club patron had recently described the current sports director as “quite sensitive” and indicated disagreements in transfer questions.
When asked whether he has now talked to Eberl about it, Hoeneß now replied: “I have no reason to speak to Max at all. I believe that what I said is absolutely okay. That is the truth. The truth will stay that way.”
Towards the end of the summer transfer period, the Supervisory Board of the Club Eberl had prohibited from committing other players. Only borrowing were still approved. In this context, Nicolas Jackson from Chelsea came to Munich – equipped with an obligation to buy from 2026, which will take place if he will be in the starting eleven 40 times.
Hoeneß now assessed the situation so that this condition would hardly occur in practice. With reference to the number of possible missions in the Bundesliga, Champions League and DFB Cup, he said: “He cannot play these 40 games at all.”
Hoeneß cannot understand that Eberl’s Jackson transfer was then negatively interpreted. “I wanted to help Max because they accused him of giving him this option,” he said before a reception by Bayern team at Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).
“Everything I said was very helpful for him. Everything I said should help him,” repeated Hoeneß. Recently there were even rumors that Eberl could give up his job frustrated. However, Bayern quickly rejected this speculation.
“Apparently I am the biggest defender from Max. Maybe he could have said that himself. Then he would not have got a beating for this,” said the honorary president as part of an appointment for the Olympic application in Munich for the summer games 2036, 2040 or 2044.