Flick comments on the situation at FC Bayern: "I'm very positive"

Created: 09/20/2022, 12:13 p.m

By: Marius Epp, Christoph Gschoßmann

An Oktoberfest date and nobody wants to go: FC Bayern has to go to the Oktoberfest in the middle of the league crisis.

The mood is correspondingly bad.

News ticker about FCB.

• Julian Nagelsmann

  has a "kick-out clause" in the Bayern contract: Thomas Tuchel is breathing down his neck

• The first Bayern players apparently have doubts about Bayern coach

  Nagelsmann

  : His management style is being chalked up

• Was there trouble between

  Kimmich

  and Nagelsmann?

  The star apparently refused to play an unloved position

• This news ticker about FC Bayern is constantly updated.

Update from September 20, 10:01 a.m .:

Hansi Flick commented on

the crisis at Bayern Munich in an interview with the

The national coach defended his successor Julian Nagelsmann.

"Bayern played outstandingly at the beginning of the season.

After the third day of play, everyone thought other teams didn't stand a chance," he recalled.

“Now they are in a bit of a weak phase.

But they always create chances, and that makes me very positive.” Flick, who is also counting on a strong Bayern block around captain Manuel Neuer at the World Cup, continues to recognize the “enormous quality” and “special attitude” in the players of the record champions .

Hansi Flick is still a fan of FC Bayern - the separation in 2021 will not change that.

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He also thinks Julian Nagelsmann is an "excellent coach", according to the former Bayern coach: "I'm a fan of the way he lets the team play football - regardless of the recent results."

Julian Nagelsmann has a “kick-out clause” in the Bayern contract: Tuchel is breathing down his neck

Update from September 19, 1:48 p.m .:

If the Bayern crisis worsens in the next few weeks, things could get tight for Julian Nagelsmann.

With Thomas Tuchel, the Bayern coach is already breathing down a candidate who was recently surprisingly fired at Chelsea.

Bayern have been interested in him on several occasions, and Tuchel himself has confirmed talks in the past.

That's still no more than wild speculation, it's still too early for Nagelsmann's dismissal anyway.

The

claims to have learned of a "kick-out clause" in Nagelsmann's contract, should this occur.

According to the report, after the second year of the contract, i.e. the end of this season, fixed severance payments will apply in the event of a separation.

These should be staggered and be lower with each contract year.

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Pure speculation so far.

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Before the end of the second year, the severance payment is apparently negotiable, so a termination could be expensive for the club.

Not to forget: FC Bayern had transferred a lot of money to Leipzig (around 25 million) for Nagelsmann's fee.

The first Bayern players apparently have doubts about Nagelsmann: management style is chalked up

Update from September 19, 10:51 a.m .:

Julian Nagelsmann is (still) firmly in the saddle at Bayern.

At least the bosses try to give that impression.

However, the first players should doubt the coach, as the

reports.

Accordingly, critical voices penetrate from the team.

Apparently, the Bayern coach is criticized for his leadership style and communication, and the behavior is sometimes seen as not very serious.

It can be said with almost 100% probability that if Nagelsmann loses the dressing room, he will lose his job.

After the furious start to the season, Julian Nagelsmann now has reason to think.

© IMAGO/Ulrich Wagner

However, this point has not yet been reached.

According to Kahn, the situation should now be analyzed during the two-week international break.

However, Nagelsmann hardly has time for training, most of the players are traveling with their national teams.

Was there trouble between Kimmich and Nagelsmann?

Star apparently refused to play position

Update from September 19, 8.35 a.m .: It

’s cracking at Bayern.

Four games without a league win, most recently the bitter 0-1 defeat in Augsburg and only fourth place in the table - it was an Oktoberfest weekend to forget for the Reds.

But already during the game in Swabia there should have been discrepancies - around Joshua Kimmich.

In the 62nd minute, coach Julian Nagelsmann brought on offensive Serge Gnabry for right-back Noussair Mazraoui, who had been called up from the start.

Sixer Joshua Kimmich was the "sufferer" of this swap, because the national player was ordered to the right back by his coach.

And Kimmich didn't seem to like that at all.

Wasn't he keen on the right-back position?

Bayern's Joshua Kimmich at the Augsburg game.

© Tom Weller / picture alliance

As 

 reports, the 27-year-old complained "relatively clearly" about it - he didn't like being transferred back to the position he had held for years at FC Bayern and in the national team.

Hangover Wiesn at FC Bayern: Oliver Kahn takes on Bayern stars

First report from September 18th:

Munich – The first Wiesn visit after more than two years – and the mood is still as bad as the weather.

FC Bayern Munich visits the Oktoberfest the day after the bankruptcy in Augsburg, but after four league games without a win and nobody feels like celebrating.

Especially not Oliver Kahn: "If we're not top of the table, the situation is always precarious.

We create a wealth of opportunities, but we don't score enough goals from them.

Again and again there is a lack of ultimate consistency and the necessary concentration," he criticized.

"We need to get to the bottom of that."

Kahn continues: "We now have a 14-day break, so we'll take our time to look at everything, analyze it and have a lot of conversations.

We have all the prerequisites, an excellent squad.

We will go all out against Leverkusen.”

Does coach Julian Nagelsmann have to fear for his job?

That's how Kahn sees it

What does the record champions' winless streak mean for the coach?

No consequences for Julian Nagelsmann are yet to be feared.

Kahn: “It is perfectly clear that he is concerned about the situation.

We haven't won four games in a row.

We are all dissatisfied and in a bad mood.

We don't deal with any personal details or other trainers.

We are totally convinced of Julian.”

Where is the Wiesn tent, please?

Kahn is probably still pondering the defeat in Augsburg.

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The "Titan" also knows that the league is longing for a new champion: "Apart from our own fans, there is nobody out there who will treat us to another championship title.

The other teams bring 120 percent against FC Bayern every time.

At the beginning of the season everything was relaxed and easy.

Perhaps one or the other has taken root with the belief that you could do the Bundesliga on the side, but that's not the case.

But I am convinced that we will find our way back on the road to success.”

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Oktoberfest date at FC Bayern on Sunday: Nobody wants to

Nagelsmann himself initiated the first measures after the bankruptcy on Sunday morning.

As

and

unanimously report, they want to have as many one-on-one talks with the players as possible on Sunday.

According to the reports, the coach appeared at Säbener Straße just after 8 a.m., the rest of the players arrived around 9 a.m.

Nagelsmann didn't have much time, because most of the players go to their national teams after the Wiesn.

Julian Nagelsmann is experiencing his first real Bayern crisis.

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Does he still feel like going to the Wiesn?

"If the team goes, then I have to go with them," said the coach, who said that the visit made no sense - and "I'll tell the club that too." And further: "Basically, I don't feel like it." That's how it looked it also sports director Hasan Salihamidzic, who made no secret of the fact that he would prefer to skip the Oktoberfest visit.

The Wiesn Mass makes him “not in the mood now, I have to honestly say.

After three points from four games, I don't know if I'll like Mass tomorrow."

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Vice-captain Thomas Müller saw it that way: "I like to let the Oktoberfest be the Oktoberfest," but he also said: "Of course we'll go there." The team has no other choice: the Oktoberfest visit is one of the most important for FC Bayern Marketing Events of the Year.

Players will wash down their frustrations in the Käfer marquee.