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Your m ... money is not enough
": the honorary president of Bayern Uli Hoeness is unleashed against Paris SG, its president Al-Khelaïfi, and against Manchester City, the new rich of Europe, in a podcast devoted to his life broadcast from Friday.
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Is Nasser Al Khelaïfi the new Uli Hoeness? asks the interviewer: "
No, I don't think so, I don't know if he likes football
", retorts the German. "
The difference between him and me?" I worked hard to earn my money, and he received it as a gift, he
insists
. We put it at his disposal and he doesn't need to work for that. When he wants a player, he will find his emir.
"
Despite their exorbitant budgets, “
so far these two clubs have won nothing at all. Nothing at all ! Nothing at all !
"Rejoices the 1974 world champion. Paris SG and Manchester City have won national titles, but"
neither have the slightest Champions League title
, "continues the man who made Bayern Munich, in four decades, a giant of European football (six Champions Leagues) without resorting to debt or a multimillionaire investor.
In 2020, Bayern beat Paris SG in the Champions League final (1-0), then PSG took their revenge last season in the quarter-finals (3-2 / 0-1). "
They will lose still against us.
Not always, but every now and then,
"prophesies Hoeness,"
and that must be our goal.
And when we win against them, I am very happy (...) This is what stimulates me, showing them: "Your money from m ..., that is not enough"
".
"It's one-year planning"
And to sharply criticize the economic model of Paris SG, compared to that of Bayern: "
what is currently happening in Paris is one-year planning (...) It is not my universe. I see things from an economic point of view. I don't put all my money in all at once, just to be congratulated for a year or two and after me the flood.
"
When we make decisions, we must ensure that we still have security in three or four years, that everything does not collapse suddenly,
" continues the 69-year-old leader, who still sits at the Bayern's supervisory board, from which he stepped down as chairman in 2019.
“
To get there, I'm also ready to risk this or that title,
” he says.
“
When you've won 60 titles like me, it's not as important as if you've only won one or two (...) Franz (Beckenbauer), Karl-Heinz (Rummenigge) and me are so clad with titles that we can afford to put the future of the club ahead of day-to-day business when making decisions.
Privately, Hoeness made his fortune in the delicatessen, but also served 21 months in prison for tax evasion between 2014 and 2016.