FC Bayern: threatened relegation puts U23 in trouble - cooperation with St. Pölten as a solution?

FC Bayern II is threatened with relegation to the regional league, and the 3rd league would then be dropped

The Bavarians are hoping for a possible alternative in Austria

Munich - The Bayern amateurs have one foot in the Regionalliga Bayern.

Unimaginable a year ago.

Because last season the team was still champions.

Mainly due to well-known departures, the second team of the record champions did not play at the top this season.

There hasn't been a single win in the last eight games.

Martin Demichelis (40) and Danny Schwarz (45), who took over the coaching position from Holger Seitz (46) at the beginning of April, were also unable to stop the downward trend.

FC Bayern II: 3rd league as a lure for talent would cease to exist in the event of relegation

After 2-2 on Wednesday in Duisburg, the amateurs are in 18th place. The last four teams in the 20-man league are relegated. In the event of a bankruptcy against fix relegated Unterhaching on Sunday (2 p.m., MagentaSport), it could look gloomy with relegation. That would be doubly bitter for those responsible for the campus!

After all, the Munich team has been able to lure some talents to Ingolstädter Strasse in recent years by presenting them with the third division team as a stepping stone to the professionals or another first division club.

Jamal Musiala (18 / FC Bayern), Angelo Stiller (20 / soon to be TSG Hoffenheim), Flavius ​​Daniliuc (20 / OGC Nice) and Chris Richards (21 / currently loaned to Hoffenheim) made the leap into the professional Soccer.

This promotion would be more complicated as a regional league player.

FC Bayern amateurs: Bundesliga competitor stands in the way of possible cooperation with St.Pölten

That is why sports director Hasan Salihamidzic, campus manager Jochen Sauer and his deputy Holger Seitz are working on various models to give top talent an alternative professional-level training in the event of a regional league crash. Sauer therefore stopped by the Austrian first division club St. Pölten last week to sound out a cooperation. The contact came through U-17 Bayern coach Halil Altintop. However, Wolfsburg * managing director Jörg Schmadtke also paid the Austrians a visit.

Because: The Wolves probably want to withdraw their U23s from playing in the regional league - and instead park promising young players in St. Pölten.

“There are considerations to do that,” VfL manager Schmadtke has already confirmed.

After Union Berlin, Arminia Bielefeld, RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL would already be the sixth first division * club to do without a reserve.

FC Bayern: De-registration of the U23 is not an issue

At FC Bayern *, however, according to information from our newspaper, the U 23 is not an issue.

The Bayern amateurs are seen as an important part of the club's philosophy.

A recent member survey found that 58 percent of club members are interested in the amateurs.

The third division team has the greatest interest after the professionals.

within the club.

(Manuel Bonke / Philipp Kessler)

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