David Alaba had discovered something that both outraged and amused him, and he didn’t want to keep it to himself. It was close to midnight in the empty Salzburg stadium, in which FC Bayern had won their third of three Champions League games this season with 6: 2 (2: 1). But the defense chief was not yet finished, he was still doing his laps in the rain while sailing, like almost all of his colleagues. Almost everyone, that was the reason for his protest: Alaba laughed, pointing to his defender colleague Jérôme Boateng, who did not run, but gave interviews for television on the sidelines.
At the end of a turbulent evening, the scene revealed three essential things about the present with the German record champions. First: Regeneration is important when the top game at Borussia Dortmund is due in the Bundesliga on Saturday – the 6-2 win against Austria’s champions with four winning goals in the final quarter of an hour was not least a success of fitness. Second: The defense was also the focus of this success, which is why Boateng spoke on television, who played a decisive role in both goals conceded and in the final offensive. Third: Alaba actually looked in a good mood.
The future of the Austrian national player, 28, is the big topic for the German record champions, especially despite the upcoming top game. This gets on coach Hansi Flick’s nerves so much that he didn’t even try to keep it a secret at the press conference and only answered a half-sentence when asked: “Absolutely, one hundred percent” Alaba behaves professionally.
Alaba is under special observation
FC Bayern put the issue on the agenda itself, with President Herbert Hainer’s announcement that the club had broken off negotiations with Alaba about an extension of the contract that expired in the summer. Before the game on Tuesday, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic repeated this – in a choice of words from which one could interpret even more exaggeration: “I no longer know how we should come together,” he said on Sky: “We have to deal with that David will leave us. “
In the soccer business, every word spoken in public is usually a bit of a negotiating tactic. That it didn’t necessarily have to be a final cancellation was on Wednesday in the Sports picture to read, who in turn said CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge: “David Alaba now has to make a decision for himself.”
In any case, all of this contributes to the fact that Alaba is now under special observation. If Thomas Müller has his way, it’s not that bad: “It’s nice when it crackles a bit,” he said. As a fan, he used to “enjoy reading such stories. When it comes down to it again FC Hollywood That was, I was there live. “And when FC Bayern was named FC Hollywood in the 1990s, the club mostly won. Alaba, says colleague Müller, does not allow itself to be influenced by the unrest on the pitch.
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