ANDBayern reached the second leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League against real Madrid in the midst of an identity crisis and a process of finding a coach to succeed Thomas Tuchel, which turned out to be more difficult than budgeted.
The loss of Bundesliga, in hands of a difficult Byesterday Leverkusen, It ended an unprecedented run of 11 consecutive German championship titles. During that period, in which the triples of 2013 and 2020 also stood out, a series of dynamics was created that now seems to be having an effect.
One of them was the almost total intolerance at times when immediate success seemed at risk, which led to great fluctuations in the bank. Bavaria He always seems to have the next coach on hand to continue the streak.
That dynamism began with the cessation of Carlo Ancelotti after a 3-0 loss against PSG on 27 September 2017. Ancelotti left Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Mats Hummels and Kingsley Coman on the bench. Jerome Boateng is not even in the squad.
“Having an enemy in bed is the most dangerous thing there. Carlo managed to put five players against him. We had to react,” the then president justified his decision at the time. Uli Hoeness.
In addition to PSG’s loss, Bayern are second in the Bundesliga, five points behind Borussia Dortmund.
SA Ancelotti He still has two years left on his contract. Its sudden cessation caused a return of Jupp Heynckes, who won the treble in 2013 and was then succeeded by Pep Guardiola. Bayern wanted to keep Heynckes – who managed to win the Bundesliga – but he said he only agreed to return from retirement to finish the season.
Heynckes’ successor was Nico Kovac former Bayern player who just won the German Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt after beating Bayern in the final.
His profile was lower than his three predecessors, but being a Bayern player spoke in his favor. His first season ended in doubles. In the second season he was dismissed before the end of the first round and was in second place, four points behind Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Kovac’s successor, initially in an interim capacity, was Hansi Flick, who not only managed to turn the situation around in the Bundesliga but also eventually won the German Cup and the Champions League.
Flick also finished his second season as champion, but had a permanent disagreement with the then sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic.
Flick continues to complain that the squad has deteriorated compared to the triple season and the departure of David Alaba and Ivan Perisic.
In the end he left, of his own free will, to become the German coach and the chosen to replace him was Julian Nagelsmann who was given a five-year contract as a sign of commitment to the future, but didn’t even finish the second year.
The cessation of Nagelsmann It took place in March 2023 when Bayern were in the quarterfinals of the Champions League – they had eliminated PSG and had to play against City – and the German Cup where the rival was Freiburg.
However, in the Bundesliga they lost their lead at the hands of Dortmund, who dropped 12 points in the second round. Thomas Tuchel inHe immediately sank the team and was eliminated from the Cup and Champions League. He ultimately saved the Bundesliga, largely thanks to Dortmund’s defeat against Mainz on the last day.
The season ended with relief at the top. They go Salihamidzic and the CEO Oliver Kahn and it left the feeling, despite having managed to extend the series, that Bayern had been weakened.
In the current season, Bayern has not only encountered its own problems but also a big Leverkusen team. It is possible that if a suitable coach is on the market, Tuchel will not finish the campaign.
The solution is to terminate the contract at the end of the year. And then the search for a successor began, which became a public casting in which one candidate after another –Xabi Alonso, Sebastian Hoeness and Ralph Rangnick fis the most famous – denied the possibility to take Bayern.
After the destinations of Ancelotti, Kovac, Nagelsmann, there was also talk of their return, or even himself. Tuchelwhich ultimately led Bayern to the semi-finals, it’s normal for any coach to think twice before making a move
Source: La Verdad
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