AAt the end of the interview, Thomas Müller had to laugh. It was also nice, he said to a reporter from Sky, when it “crackles a bit”. He used to enjoy reading the stories from FC Hollywood. “You were there live,” he said, laughed and disappeared. On Tuesday evening Thomas Müller and his Bavarians won the Champions League 6-2 in Salzburg, but the crackling was there before that. On Sunday evening, Herbert Hainer, the president of FC Bayern, said on BR television that the club had withdrawn the contract offer for its defense chief David Alaba because he and his advisors wanted too much money.
On Tuesday evening, before the game in Salzburg, Hasan Salihamidzic, the sports director, said in an interview with Sky that he no longer knew how to get together with Alaba and therefore had to deal with the fact that he would leave the club next summer . Something was going on in the studio. Even the exciting game couldn’t match the excitement. That’s just how it is with the overwhelming power of Bavaria. If it cracks a bit, it’s not because they score six goals in a game in the world’s best football competition, but because they argue about the question: How many million euros more per year is Alaba actually entitled to?
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