Is Oliver Kahn building his own team at Bayern? Speculations about ex-HSV director

Oliver Kahn takes over at Bayern Munich and was already involved in a first transfer. Now there is speculation about new personnel.

• Oliver Kahn is the new board of FC Bayern .
• In two years he is to succeed Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in Munich .
• Kahn was already involved in a first transfer - now there is speculation about new personnel.

Update from February 26, 2020: Oliver Kahn's first two months as a new member of the Executive Board are drawing to a close. After its official launch, the "Titan" visited the team in the training camp in Qatar and, according to Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, was also involved in the first transfer.

Kahn's influence at Bayern is already noticeable in his early days. According to a report by the Bild , however, Kahn could already be planning the next personnel decision in the background. This is about ex-HSV director Bernhard Peters. The former national hockey coach held the position of 'Director Sport' in Hamburg for four years before his contract with the Hanseatic team was terminated in 2018. Peters had previously unsuccessfully promoted him to the supervisory board.

According to the picture , Peters is currently in discussion at RB Leipzig as the young manager and technical director . But nothing should be official yet. But the picture also brings another interested person into play: FC Bayern. According to the report, Kahn and Peters should maintain a good relationship - talks should also have taken place. Is Kahn building a team in the background? According to the picture , there were also personal meetings between Kahn and Peters. Peters could take on the position of Technical Director at Michael Bayern after Michael Reschke's departure and support Hasan Salihamidzic.

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FC Bayern board shows its power at the training camp in Qatar

Update from January 24, 2020, 9.07 p.m .: In the meantime, Oliver Kahn has already contributed to his first transfer at Bayern.

Board boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told this in an interview with * tz and * Münchner Merkur.

Update from January 8, 2020, 11.30 a.m .: Oliver Kahn made his announcement true and flew to the Munich training camp in Qatar shortly after his presentation at Bayern in the Allianz Arena this Tuesday - via the crisis region of Iraq and Iran.

Oliver Kahn assesses the FC Bayern team in Qatar

After arriving in Doha at night, the new record champion's board of directors had breakfast with the team in the morning and then watched the team training with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic .

The 50-year-old was under a sun tent most of the time, chatting with Bayern coach Hansi Flick in between .

The boss is there: Oliver Kahn (right) with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic in the training camp of FC Bayern.

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“The sporting area is the core, the team is the key. I want to get an insight into what the mood is like, ” Kahn had said before leaving for the Emirate:“ Now the focus is on the second half of the season. ”

Oliver Kahn flies to Nuremberg with FC Bayern

The former world-class goalkeeper will fly with the team to Nuremberg on Friday, where the record champions will play a friendly against the second division club 1. FCN on Saturday (3:30 p.m., here in the live ticker).

Hello, @OliverKahn! #MiaSanMia @Brazzo pic.twitter.com/35VPyddjRz

Oliver Kahn is said to shape a new era at FC Bayern in Munich

Update from January 2, 2020: It is a very special phase for FC Bayern Munich: Oliver Kahn is officially back at the record champions.

The former world-class goalkeeper is to shape a new era as the future boss of the board. These days he is starting to work as a board member. In two years he will inherit Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as chairman.

One of his first acts: a trip to the FCB training camp in Qatar. As tz.de * now reports, the date has shifted a bit.

First official act: Oliver Kahn demonstrates his new power at FC Bayern Munich

First announcement from December 29, 2019: Munich - Oliver Kahn's life will change abruptly from January 1. And the former world-class goalkeeper of FC Bayern does not have to make any resolutions for New Year's Eve 2019.

For the new year, the "Titan", as fans called it earlier, will become the board member of the German record champions. It is a drastic personnel, not only for the Munich team, but for the entire Bundesliga .

Oliver Kahn meets Jürgen Klinsmann with FC Bayern

A first highlight: Bayern's start into the second half of the season at Hertha BSC (Sunday, January 19, 3:30 p.m.). With Jürgen Klinsmann as coach of the Berliner on the other hand, the man who Kahn had degraded to number two in the DFB team just before the 2006 World Cup.

But even before that there will be a first official act by the 50-year-old, with which he will demonstrate his new power: when he flies to the Bayern training camp in Doha.

Kahn will travel to Qatar to have discussions with the team and to get to know the players whom he criticized as a TV expert.

Oliver Kahn will get to know the players of FC Bayern exactly

Kahn will shake hands, listen, exchange opinions in Qatar. And he will identify himself as a new boss.

At FC Bayern this is particularly important, in a mixed situation in which sports director Hasan Salihamidzic is still sharpening his profile and patriarch Uli Hoeneß (at least in the public perception) is no longer there.

FC Bayern's new management duo: sports director Hasan Salihamidzic (left) and board member Oliver Kahn.

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The new President Herbert Hainer still seemed shy and reserved in his first few weeks. That is not to be expected from Kahn, once an opinion leader on and next to the square.

Oliver Kahn will inherit Karl-Heinz Rummenigge from Bayern

Kahn, who will take over from Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as chief executive officer on January 1, 2022, has repeatedly indicated in recent weeks how aggressively he will interpret his intended role. Especially with the coaching question of FC Bayern.

"What is football that Bayern wants to stand for? And what is a trainer that fits perfectly? It has to be about getting a coach who could possibly shape an era again, ”he had said in his boat analysis from partner Samsung:“ The days are over where it was enough for Bayern Munich to somehow win games and somehow become champions to become. Football has of course also developed in such a way that it is already a spectacle. "

Oliver Kahn announces FC Bayern coach question

That is part of the FC Bayern philosophy, he said at the beginning of November: “Dominant, attractive, forward that you can see things (…) that you don't see in other teams. Expectations have increased and so have the coach. ”

This message should also have been received by Coach Hansi Flick and also by the team.

I would like to thank the board of supervisors at FC Bayern for their confidence in me. I look forward to taking on the new challenge of executive board member with passion and enthusiasm at @FCBayern, starting in January ⚪ #MiaSanMia #WeiterImmerWeiter pic.twitter.com/3q2ZvjuFeD

On the ZDF , after the BVB 1: 2 at 1899 Hoffenheim, Kahn had a little lead against the supposedly worst national rival: "If you want to become champion, you usually appear differently."

FC Bayern: A charismatic personality returns with Oliver Kahn

No question: With Kahn, a charismatic personality is returning to the Allianz Arena who can shape the record champions from Munich and German football for years.

The FC Bayern squad, to which Jerome Boateng may no longer belong, will be the first to know this in the training camp in Qatar. Boateng is currently nearby - with his new girlfriend. The former Bundesliga star Max Kruse, who was also associated with FCB, spent his New Year's Eve on the other hand - the fans celebrated it for it.

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