Within two weeks, FC Bayern gambled away the Champions League and DFB Cup.
The hasty change of coach backfired, commented Merkur.de editor Marius Epp.
Munich – Taking on the legacy of Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern is difficult.
Damn hard even.
But Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamidzic are steering the club in a direction that neither Hoeneß nor Rummenigge can please.
After the Champions League defeat against Manchester City, Munich is only playing for one title – and even that is by no means certain.
The trainer effect?
It didn't fizzle out, it never really happened.
Thomas Tuchel is not to blame, or rather: he is actually the poorest pig.
FC Bayern strikes the sails: Julian Nagelsmann could not have done worse
Looking at the results four weeks after Tuchel took office, Julian Nagelsmann can confidently state: Things could not have gone worse for me.
The Bayern bosses saw the goals of the season in danger with Landsberger, with his replacement two of them were lost in a very short time.
The change of coach was not only extremely courageous, it was also simply wrong at the time.
And Kahn and Salihamidzic should finally admit that.
They gambled away their credit with many Bayern fans.
Thomas Tuchel is one of the best coaches in the world - but not a magician.
How is he supposed to convey content to a team within just a few training sessions, let alone teach them how to win?
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The Bayern bosses are rightly in the pillory, says Merkur.de editor Marius Epp.
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FC Bayern: Kahn and Salihamidzic have gambled
The hasty dismissal of Nagelsmann backfired because it only unsettled the players.
After eight wins and two goals against in eight CL games against heavyweights like Inter Milan (incidentally now in the CL semifinals), FC Barcelona and PSG, you don't fire a coach.
Not to mention the millions that were burned with the Nagelsmann-Aus.
No – not everything was perfect under Nagelsmann.
At the age of 35 he made mistakes, both in terms of sport and public image.
But who was surprised?
Nagelsmann was brought in as a long-term solution that is expressly allowed – and should – make mistakes.
Bayern bosses rely on quick success - and lose
A lack of consistency, inexplicable dropouts like against Villarreal, Gladbach or most recently Leverkusen: Nagelsmann can rightly be blamed for all of this.
If he had been eliminated from the cup and the Champions League, one could have just as well come to the conclusion after the season: It doesn't fit.
Because they were probably afraid that the desired coach Tuchel would be gone by then, they let themselves be carried away to a step that caused astonishment all over the world.
And ultimately failed.
It would be wrong to attribute the sporting failure solely to the club's management.
Joshua Kimmich is right when he says: "We're on the pitch and we have to fix it."
We are who we are?
Nagelsmann wasn't Brazzo's first victim
It is to his credit that he does not say what is obvious: if the coach is changed in the middle of the hottest phase of the season, a player no longer has a framework to hold on to.
No processes that are important in important games.
Whether Tuchel is more successful next season or not: FC Bayern missed a great opportunity to build an era with a coach.
After Flick, Nagelsmann is already the second coach who was fired and who would have been predestined for this.
Kahn and Salihamidzic are responsible for this.
(epp)
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