As of: February 21, 2024, 7:43 p.m
By: Manuel Bonke
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Thomas Tuchel has to leave FC Bayern Munich at the end of the season.
tz reporter Manuel Bonke comments on the record champions' decision.
Munich - All of Monday and large parts of Tuesday, heads were put together in the executive suite on Säbener Strasse in order to be able to present a way out of the sporting crisis.
On Wednesday morning, the German record champions officially announced the result of the consultation.
The headline of the press release was: “Realignment for the new season: FC Bayern and Thomas Tuchel will end their collaboration in the summer.”
Thomas Tuchel and FC Bayern find an interim solution
Already on the Sunday after the defeat in Bochum - it was the third defeat in a row - the board of directors and the supervisory board agreed that there could no longer be “business as usual” with Tuchel as head coach.
The facts were obvious, but the bosses lacked alternatives who could take over the coaching position on an interim or long-term basis.
Therefore, the decision was made to use the communicated interim solution.
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On the one hand, those responsible are hoping for a kind of untying effect that will ensure sporting success again - especially in the premier class: Internally, the second leg of the round of 16 against Lazio Rome was chosen as the most important game of the season so far.
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On the other hand, Bayern are convinced that the team now has a responsibility and can no longer provide any coaching alibis.
The word “lame duck” in connection with Tuchel is forbidden in the boardroom.
After all, Tuchel's reputation also depends on the team's sporting performance.
At least that's the theory.
The coming weeks will show whether these ideas are correct.
At least the decision is honest.
Both parties know where they stand early in the new football year.
Tuchel can already look for a new employer and the series champion can press ahead with the search for a successor.
But the Bavarian temporary game also entails great risk: the uncertainty in the coaching position does not make it any easier for sports director Christoph Freund and soon-to-be sports director Max Eberl to push ahead with the announced “sporting realignment” and convince potential transfer targets to move to Munich.
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