Script twist with Tuchel at Bayern: from untouchable to risking his position for his words

Thomas Tuchel He arrived less than a year later, in March 2023, on the bench of Bayern Munich After a severe crisis in the locker room of the Bavarian team between some heavyweights and their coach at the time, Julian Nagelsmann. The then CEO, Oliver Kahndismissed in the summer, and the sports director, Hasan Salihamidzic, They saw in Tuchel the perfect man to uplift the situation by empowering the sacred cows crying out for change. Finally Tuchel raised his Bundesligaalthough they were removed from the Champions League for the first time despite the stability shown so far with Nagelsmann.

This season, Bayern are second in the Bundesliga, seven points behind the impressive Bayer 04 Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso (distance that could be reduced tonight in the postponed game against Union Berlin). In the Champions League the results were excellent again, with five wins and a draw in the group stage. However, the Bavarian team has already said goodbye to the German Cup and its defeat last weekend against Werder Bremen has put the focus on Tuchel to the point that he has gone from untouchable to danger in his position.

The German coach was very critical of his players and stated that “I’m tired of saying that we are training well, no one believes us anymore.” Tuchel suggested the standard of training was not up to “many weeks” before saying they deserved to lose. According to him Bildthese words will trigger the patience of the board that has supported him without breaking until now and learned from their coach that they have not been training well for a few weeks: the one who has to prove that he is worth the job is Tuchel.

A situation they see as more serious than Nagelsmann

The board sees the situation as worse than what Nagelsmann had created, who presented his managers with a series of proposals to improve the team’s performance and resolve the internal crisis that ultimately did not convince Kahn. Tuchel was brought to the publicin the press room, a problem that his predecessor knew how to deal with in private and that did not please the leaders of Bayern.

“I have been a coach long enough to be able to judge when training is at the level we want to be. This is what happened for many weeks. It was clear that it was not enough. For more than 70 minutes we did not have the feeling that we were playing for the victory. I noticed it later. Not until then,” Tuchel said, pointing to his pupils. “We were too static in the first half. We lost a lot of balls, gave away a lot of counterattacks, and were careless in possession. We deserved to lose!” emphasized the coach of Bayern.

Tuchel insisted that “we did not play for 70 minutes like a team that wants to achieve victory, that is playing for the championship, that wants to give a response. We only did it for 20 minutes and it was not enough to achieve goals we set for ourselves. We didn’t sign it. When you sign for a club like Bayern Munich you sign to give one hundred percent. This applies to the coach, it applies to the players. We didn’t give today . We played like we were 10 points ahead and there was still a Champions League match on Tuesday. We will give the team an account. On Wednesday we have a chance to do better and we have to do better,” he added.

The harsh criticism turned against Tuchel, and punctured the balloon in which he was taken by the leaders of Bayern, who had blind faith in him until now and who after his words doubted his abilities and taught him as the most responsible in the situation. “The position at Bayern Munich is at stake,” they reported to Bild. We have to see his reaction.