The crisis at FC Bayern is getting bigger. This also leaves its mark on boss Oliver Kahn. He answered questions about the situation – and about himself.
Bayern boss Oliver Kahn already sees “a catastrophe” coming, and coach Thomas Tuchel just seemed at a loss after what might have been the decisive mistake in the title race. “It just happened too much for the team, they can no longer rebel when things go wrong,” said the Bayern Munich coach after the 1: 3 (1: 0) at FSV Mainz 05. He has no explanation for this , “I don’t know why. The points go away like sand through your hands.”
Borussia Dortmund has been in first place again since Saturday evening, and Bayern are now threatened with a season without a title. A terrible scenario for Kahn. “It would be a disaster for all of us if that happened,” he said in ZDF’s “Sportstudio”.
“We need distance”
In order to digest the fall from the top of the table, the Munich pros are given three days off. “At the moment we look like a team that has already played 80 games this season, we look exhausted,” said Tuchel. You don’t get the necessary energy “if we all call in and keep going. We’ve been going through the program without a day off for three and a half weeks. We don’t look fresh, so we need distance.”
He “didn’t see the bankruptcy in Mainz coming. We obviously can’t play without individual mistakes and lack of concentration,” said Tuchel, who has only won two out of seven competitive games as Bayern coach since Julian Nagelsmann’s dismissal: “I’ve got that Feeling like we’re playing everything on the same pitch – and that’s either enough or not. I miss the adjustment, it goes like that.”
Kahn: “Attack again next season”
However, in the Bayern camp, Tuchel was not alone in his desperation. “We’re definitely hooked,” said Thomas Müller on Sky: “I’m not at all relaxed. I’m a little at a loss as to how this situation came about.” In the coming days it is important to “let your family feed you back” in order to be able to attack in the final sprint. He is currently feeling “disappointment and helplessness. The sting is already deep.”
The bankruptcy was also “difficult to explain” for sports director Hasan Salihamidzic, who, like board boss Kahn, had recently come under increasing criticism. He spoke of a “low point”.
Kahn answered the questions of reporter Boris Büchler in the “Sportstudio” and also responded to the criticism of him just mentioned. Regarding his future, he said: “If I understand correctly, someone wrote a Twitter message and everyone kind of jumped on it. Then there was a hype about this topic.”
Afterwards he added: “I can only tell you: For me there is only one goal and that is to win the German championship title this season and then to really attack again next season.” With the Twitter message, Kahn means former Bundesliga player Jan Aage Fjörtoft. The Norwegian wrote on Twitter last Thursday: “I have been told that this is an ‘ongoing process’ and that it is ‘only a matter of time’ before Oliver Kahn, Bayern Munich’s CEO, is removed from office. “
