FC Bayern Munich should proceed to search for a brand new coach. Thomas Tuchel won’t make a spectacular turnaround on the German soccer report champions and, as agreed virtually three months in the past, will depart the membership early on the finish of the season. “This is the final press convention on Säbener Strasse. We haven’t discovered an settlement for additional cooperation. That’s why the settlement in February stays,” mentioned Tuchel on Friday within the press convention earlier than his final recreation as Bayern coach this Saturday (3:30 p.m. within the FAZ dwell ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky) within the Bundesliga in opposition to TSG Hoffenheim .
“Last week there was solely the theoretical risk of creating a 180-degree turnaround. The initiative got here from the membership,” mentioned Tuchel. It was tough for him to depart the workforce.
Several prime candidates did not need to
After the Bayern bosses had not discovered a successor in latest months, the agreed termination of the contract with the 50-year-old Tuchel was reconsidered after robust performances within the Champions League.
When on the lookout for a coach, Bayern needed to take away a number of prime candidates similar to Xabi Alonso (Bayer Leverkusen), Julian Nagelsmann (nationwide coach) and Ralf Rangnick (Austria nationwide coach) from the listing of candidates. Contacts with different trainers similar to the previous Wolfsburg and Frankfurter Oliver Glasner have been additionally unsuccessful.
The Munich workforce determined to half methods with Tuchel on the finish of the season in February. The former Champions League winner with FC Chelsea solely received the championship with the Munich workforce in additional than a yr within the 2022/23 season, through which he got here to Munich in March 2023 as Nagelsmann’s successor. This season the workforce was dethroned within the championship by Bayer 04 Leverkusen after eleven titles in a row.