When a football club wears out so many coaches in such a short time, it must be in a bad way. Six head coaches in seven years, you think of relegation candidates and traditional clubs that have fallen, like Schalke 04 and HSV, for example. But no, the badly battered club that suddenly kicked out its head coach this week is called FC Bayern Munich.
The FCB, just a quick reminder, is this southern German club that has been German champion ten times in a row and still has the best chances of the ultimate triple of championship, cup win and Champions League triumph this year. In the league, despite a bombastic goal difference, they accidentally slipped down to second place. But that can be corrected again next week in a direct duel with Dortmund.
However, it is actually to be feared that this time Bayern will not be crowned champions as usual two months before the end of the season. What an unworthy interim balance. The Bayern bosses really had to urgently pull the ripcord.
Not only the world stars Mbappé and Messi are surprised about the expulsion of Julian Nagelsmann, who did not give the supposed crisis Bayern in the premier class the slightest chance. The Bayern players themselves are also seriously irritated by the process. It was "strange", said Joshua Kimmich on Saturday evening after the international match, that he was suddenly given a new head coach during his absence. "At the end of the day, that's the business, little love, little heart," says Kimmich. "We have to learn to deal with it and live with the decision." Kimmich later added that the statement was not a criticism of their own club management. But she was.
Because, like co-leader Leon Goretzka, Kimmich clearly contradicted the central expulsion argument of the Bayern bosses, according to which the relationship between coach and players should no longer have been right. "I can say that the coach has not lost the dressing room," said Kimmich. And Goretzka, who had already expressed his attachment to Nagelsmann in the last few days, made the meaningful sentence in the direction of sports director Hasan Salihamdzic: "I would be stupid if I contradicted my boss now. Personally, I certainly had no cracks with Julian. "
The cold-bloodedness with which the Bayern management dumped the coach, who was just about to shape a Bayern era, apparently repels even the hardened professionals. The proud "Mia san mia" club still likes to emphasize that despite all the Qatar sponsorships and other deals, it is somehow much more grounded than its competitors from England or Paris, who are controlled by oil and gas billions from the Middle East.
With the most recent move, Bayern have proved the opposite: although they only got the coaching talent Nagelsmann a year and a half ago for the enormous sum of 25 million euros, they are now cold-bloodedly putting it out again because there was just the chance to get the sought-after one to get Thomas Tuchel. It was also very bad style that Bayern initially offered Tuchel the job. And only then, when the rumor was already circulating in the media, informed Nagelsmann about his impending dismissal.
The players would have alienated themselves from their coach, so the Bayern bosses put it. In fact, Bayern are becoming more and more alienated from the rest of football in Germany. No other club could spend so much money on a coach and then throw him to the wind because he's only second. Football fans are annoyed that the German champions have been virtually certain for years before the season begins. And a club that can't stand it if, despite financial superiority, it doesn't shoot all opponents to the ground without exception, that's really unsympathetic.
