As of: March 7, 2024, 10:24 p.m
By: Christoph Wutz
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Thomas Hitzlsperger criticizes the FCB bosses for the layoffs last season.
Kane should pay for this.
Other players benefit from the misery.
Munich – FC Bayern threatens to end the 2023/24 season without a title.
After advancing in the Champions League against Lazio Rome, the Munich team at least still have a realistic chance of silverware.
For ex-national player Thomas Hitzlsperger, the ongoing crisis is the result of several bad decisions at management level.
He defends coach Thomas Tuchel – and has a clear suspicion about signing Harry Kane.
“Change of coach damaged FC Bayern”: Hitzlsperger criticizes the club’s management
Despite the recent mini positive trend, the current season is not satisfactory for the record champions.
For Thomas Hitzlsperger, however, it would be “too easy to pass everything on to the coach,” as the former Munich youth player said in an interview with
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.
“Thomas Tuchel also has his share, but I think that this relationship was strained very early on.”
The 41-year-old places the starting point of the downward spiral in the past season: “The change of coach from Julian Nagelsmann to Thomas Tuchel damaged FC Bayern’s image, as did the expulsion of Hasan Salihamidzic and Oliver Kahn afterwards,” said Hitzlsperger, who thus The club's leadership around President Herbert Hainer was clearly criticized.
According to former national player Thomas Hitzlsperger (l.), Bayern have signed Harry Kane (r.) to improve their image after several mistakes in the management team.
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Hitzlsperger puts forward the theory about Kane: FCB record purchase “like no transfer before”
Last summer, according to Hitzlsperger's thesis in an interview, Bayern tried to correct this publicly tarnished image - with their record purchase: "I think those responsible wanted to repair that with the transfer of Harry Kane," suspects the former Stuttgart and Wolfsburg player.
According to this, the management “put everything on this one player and had it covered in the media like no transfer before.”
At that time, the negotiations for the English striker dragged on for a long time before he moved to Munich - with a lot of drumbeat and a prompt marketing coup for new Bayer Kane.
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Hitzlsperger: Because of the Kane transfer, FCB bosses forgot about other player purchases
However, in Hitzlsperger's terms, the Bayern bosses concentrated too much on the Englishman - and ignored other personnel issues for too long.
They “forgot that they also need a defensive midfielder and a full-back,” said the 41-year-old.
So Bayern came under time pressure.
Late in the summer transfer window, they identified a dream solution for the vacant position in Joao Palhinha.
But the six-man's transfer failed spectacularly at the last minute.
The hoped-for reinforcements did not come until winter.
The record champions signed Eric Dier for the defensive center, and Sacha Boey, the sought-after right-back from Istanbul, also came to Munich.
Hitzlsperger attributes the personnel shortage to Bayern's Kane policy
The negligence on behalf of Kane was “a bit of a downfall” for FC Bayern, Hitzlsperger continued.
When some players were injured in the first half of the season, the thin squad often forced Tuchel to improvise solutions.
The personnel situation remained tense until winter.
However, the bottleneck also turned out to be an opportunity for young players from our own ranks.
With Aleksandar Pavlovic, a young Munich player has now made the leap into the first team.
The 19-year-old has long since established himself - and recently received great praise from Bayern veteran Thomas Müller.
(wuc)