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“FC Bayern would like to sign Xavi Alonso”
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Leverkusen, Liverpool or Bayern? It is still unclear which club Xavi Alonso will coach next season
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FC Bayern Munich is looking for a new coach. Uli Hoeneß has a clear favorite in Xabi Alonso. However, Bayern’s honorary president is skeptical as to whether the appointment of the Bayer Leverkusen coach will work.
According to Uli Hoeneß, FC Bayern Munich would like to bring in Xabi Alonso as their new coach. “We would like to sign him,” said the influential honorary president of the German soccer record champions to Bayerischer Rundfunk. However, Hoeneß added that the chances of luring the former Bayern player and current coach of Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen to Munich were not very great.
A return campaign would be “very difficult, not to say probably impossible,” said the 72-year-old. Hoeneß expects the Spanish coach to stay in Leverkusen. He could “imagine that, the way I got to know him and appreciate him, he would be more inclined to carry on because he doesn’t want to leave it behind now.”
Hoeneß would like to bring Alonso back to Bayern
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Alonso led Bayer to the top of the Bundesliga. Leverkusen leads the table with ten points ahead of Bayern eight game days before the end of the season and is on the verge of the first German championship in the club’s history. Bayer is also in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup and the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
FC Bayern Munich wants to present a new coach in April
“He is now training at a club that is currently in the process of becoming German champions. He has a lot to thank this club for, and so does she,” added Hoeneß. “If he had had two or three years more success, it would probably be easier to get him out of there.” If, as he expected, things didn’t work out with Alonso, “it will be the task of the sporting management to look for alternatives to find”.
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Sports director Max Eberl said generally about the search for a coach at Sky: “It would be nice if we could get it done in April.” But he doesn’t want to commit to a fixed date: “If it takes a little longer, it just takes a little longer.” Eberl emphasized: “We want to make the best decision.”