Matthäus criticizes FC Bayern: "Wouldn't have existed under Hoeneß and Rummenigge"

Created: 05/03/2022, 02:18 p.m

Lothar Matthäus criticizes the new bosses of FC Bayern after the Ibiza trip - and sees "no real team" with the record champions

Munich – Record national player Lothar Matthäus has repeatedly criticized FC Bayern Munich these days.

Matthäus not only has a few complaints about squad planning.

His criticism of the Ibiza trip by some Bayern stars after the Bundesliga defeat at the weekend is clear.

"Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would never have let the squad fly away for two days after a 1: 3 in Mainz," wrote Matthäus in his Sky column.

In the opinion of the 61-year-old, the current club management around Oliver Kahn “could or even had to collect the so-called team-building measure (...).

The players could have started the nice trip after the last matchday without any problems.” Sport director Hasan Salihamidzic had spoken of a team campaign agreed with the club.

Coach Julian Nagelsmann had announced two days off to the players before the Mainz game.

FC Bayern: Matthäus protects Nagelsmann on an Ibiza trip

Matthäus protected the 34-year-old coach: "I can well imagine that Julian Nagelsmann would have liked to cancel this trip.

But it would have been very risky for him to put his foot down here without losing a large part of the dressing room afterwards.”

For Matthäus, it is not a question of a team building measure, "but rather a leisure activity for some professionals".

The mere fact that the entire team is not in Spain and that even captain Manuel Neuer stayed at home shows that it is not really about the team.

“Because otherwise they would have traveled together.

And what's more, after this season it's clear that this Bayern team is simply not a real team.” However, it's also possible that Neuer stayed in Munich to extend his contract.

Thomas Müller has already extended his contract with FC Bayern.

Lothar Matthäus has repeatedly criticized FC Bayern these days © IMAGO/Oliver Zimmermann

If FC Bayern were a real team, "they would not have lost several games against clubs from the lower half of the table and would not have been eliminated from the cup competitions against Villarreal and Gladbach without a sound," argued Sky expert Matthäus: "It's a team building It would have taken a measure after the bankruptcy in Bochum to pull yourself together again and have a really good season.

But that has a more than bland aftertaste.”

How bland the aftertaste really is will be shown next weekend when FC Bayern meets VfB Stuttgart.

Even if the record champions don't have too much at stake in sporting terms: the accusation of distortion of competition, which Hertha coach Felix Magath has spread, does not want to have to be heard again from the record champions.

(dpa)