Summary of Bochum's 2:3 victory over Bayern Munich/Sport1
Bayern Munich are looking for a new coach for next season.
Xavi Alonso is known to be the preferred candidate, but Zinedine Zidane and today even Unai Emery have also been mentioned alongside him.
However and in the shadow of the searches, in the meantime the Bavarians still have goals left in the current season when in the Champions League they are trailing 1:0 against Lazio from the first match in the round of 16 and in the Bundesliga they are chasing Leverkusen who lead them by eight points.
Yesterday, Bayern announced that Thomas Tuchel will leave at the end of the season, and although the team still has something to fight for, the stories from the dressing room are already starting to leak out.
The height of Bayern's crisis came in a 3:2 loss to Bochum that practically sealed Tuchel's fate, but sources told "Athletic" that the coach was actually quite smiling after the game: "Team members heard him tell sarcastic jokes about the situation. He knew it was over, The pressure was released."
His move unsettled the leaders.
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Before the announcement of the separation, the dressing room was divided between Tuchel's supporters and his opponents, with the leading opponents being Yushua Kimisch and Leon Goretzka.
The two held the Bayern link for several years, but already the previous summer, after only a few months in the job, Tuchel wanted to change that.
"He offered to sell one of them but was met with a refusal from the management", reported in "Athletic", "He wanted Declan Reiss who was too expensive and the Joao Palhinia deal fell through at the last second. For him the trinity between Kimmish and Goretzka could not work. They There were two of the leaders in the dressing room and this thing unsettled them."
A close associate of Tochel added: "He was like a doctor who sees that his patient needs surgery, but can only prescribe some medicine."
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