2023-11-02 23:26:00
The turbulent Bavaria year 2023! Anyone who thought that calm would finally return to the club and the team after the change of coach in the spring and the leadership quake in the summer was wrong. After the cup embarrassment at third division team Saarbrücken, criticism of the players, but also of coach Thomas Tuchel, is growing.
“He’s been there for over half a year now. Even if there are a lot of problems, even if the squad is certainly too thin and reinforcements are needed in January: there hasn’t been any major football development under him,” says SPORT1 chief reporter Kerry Hau in the new edition of the podcast “Die Bayern- week”.
On Säbener Straße you have to gradually ask yourself fundamental questions like: “Who are we? Where do we want to go? What kind of football do we actually want to play?” In any case, relying only on the individual class of offensive talents such as Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sané or Harry Kane cannot be one’s own claim – just as it was not possible to move away from the table in the 96th minute. 15. to be countered in the 3rd league or to appear as pomadic as they did in the first half against Galatasaray Istanbul.
But it’s not just the protagonists on the pitch who obviously need improvement. According to Hau, there are now the first disagreements between the team and coach Tuchel! According to the journalist, several players were surprised at the coach’s sometimes distant manner and “didn’t feel picked up”.
Tuchel “of course has his players, with whom he speaks a lot outside of team meetings. Harry Kane or Leroy Sané, for example,” said Hau. However, the 50-year-old hardly communicates with other players – including those from the first eleven. Some would “if at all find out from assistant coach Zsolt Löw whether they are playing or not”.
In addition, Tuchel’s public criticism of his squad, especially his midfield, which was particularly pronounced in the summer, was “of course not well received” in the dressing room. The relationship has been rather difficult since then, especially with Joshua Kimmich, who Tuchel sees as being further ahead than himself.
Tuchel therefore has to be careful that he doesn’t lose some players like Kimmich and that “these first cracks don’t get bigger” – especially when results fail to materialize and titles are lost like the DFB Cup.
After the disgrace in Saarbrücken, the coach himself stood demonstratively in front of his stars. He said he had “no real explanation” at the SPORT1 microphone.
Out in the cup against the 15th place in the 3rd league: Bayern embarrassed themselves to the bone in Saarbrücken and lost another defender on top of that. What does the debacle say about the team? What role does coach Tuchel have in the situation and what is his relationship with his players really like? And now, after de Ligt’s injury, is Boateng coming? There is a lot to discuss for SPORT1 chief reporter Kerry Hau and presenter Conan Furlong in the new issue “Die Bayern-Woche”!
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