The coaching chair at FC Bayern has developed into an ejection seat in recent years. After Pep Guardiola, no coach stayed with the record champions for longer than two years. Uli Hoeneß still doesn’t believe that the club is untrainable.
By Victor List, Thomas Klinger
Carlo Ancelotti, Niko Kovač, Hansi Flick, Julian Nagelsmann and now Thomas Tuchel: They were all not allowed, or in Flick’s case, wanted to, not fulfill their working papers at FC Bayern. Tuchel will also be out with the record champions in the summer after just over a year, although his contract would have run until June 2025. So are the people of Munich untrainable? Honorary President Uli Hoeneß vehemently defends himself against this accusation in the BR24Sport exclusive interview and also sees the media landscape as responsible.
You can see the entire interview with Uli Hoeneß in the ARD media library. You can see a detailed interview on Sunday in Blickpunkt Sport from 9.45 p.m. on BR television and stream.
Hoeneß counters: “The media is untrainable”
Looking back, Hoeneß still cannot understand why Ancelotti, who was successful everywhere else, was not happy at FC Bayern. In the 72-year-old’s opinion, the Italian “didn’t have the right personnel included in his coaching team.” Rather, it is clear to Hoeneß: “If he had had today’s team back then, he would probably still be coaching (FC Bayern) today.”
For the honorary president, it is not FC Bayern that is uncoachable, but rather the media, complains the former Bayern boss. “They have no patience at all anymore. […] If we lose two or three games, the coaching question is asked and that’s why it’s particularly difficult to train at FC Bayern.” In general, the record champions have “made themselves too dependent on these things,” says Hoeneß and demands: “It has to be done make FC Bayern more independent again.”
“Too little patience” with Nagelsmann
However, the honorary president admits that the club has “shown too little patience,” especially in the recent past. Ending Julian Nagelsmann’s long-term project early, even though the Munich team was still represented in the league, cup and Champions League at that point, was, in retrospect, “actually not a thing that suits FC Bayern,” said Hoeneß in the BR24Sport exclusive interview.
While the coach’s chair at Säbener Strasse has increasingly become an ejection seat in recent years, things can work much more quietly in other top clubs in Europe. Jürgen Klopp is ending his role in Liverpool after almost nine years. During this time, the “Reds” temporarily missed the Champions League. The former Dortmund player was nevertheless not doubted. At Liverpool FC there is “more gratitude. What happened will not be forgotten the next day,” says Hoeneß and would like that more for his club.
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Source: BR24Sport on the radio March 29, 2024 – 9:54 a.m