“My Bayern” column: Which star is already regretting his departure – FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN

“My Bavaria” is the name of the column by SPORT BILD reporter legend Raimund Hinko, which deals with the German record champions. Hinko has accompanied the Munich company for decades.

Dear Leroy Sane,

“Man Raimund”, I thought to myself, “are your glasses broken? Your tv over? Or did Wolff-Christoph Fuss turn your head at Sky? ”The answer was a resounding no. I was clear in my head. I saw right. As so often in your performances, you lost the ball after 85 minutes in midfield. However, you didn’t sag your shoulders as usual. A jolt went through your body. Your narrow chest became as wide as if there were three Sanés in it. And then you got the ball back. No foul, no yellow card. And thus helped the team in dire need to save the tiny 2-1 lead over time.

So with this one scene, which was to be repeated twice in the remaining minutes, you helped Bayern become half-time champions, as they used to say autumn champions. That it is a comfortable four point lead. Uncatchable in the first half of the season for Leipzig, Leverkusen, Dortmund and the great Unioners from Berlin anyway.

The conquest of three points against the last five times victorious Freiburg was not a matter of course. Of course, luck was also involved when the ex-Bayern striker Nils Petersen thundered the ball so forcefully against the lower edge of the crossbar shortly before the end after his equalization to 1: 1 that the field game goalkeeper captain Manuel Neuer himself in a snow storm the Antarctic imagined.

Until the final whistle, Bayern put the 2: 3 in Mönchengladbach and the cup defeat at Holstein Kiel in the shaky knees. And then, dear Leroy Sané, even Pep Guardiola nodded her head appreciatively in front of the TV screen and mumbled “Super Super Sané”. Where the rumor was that Pep had whined when you went from ManCity to Bayern for well over 50 million euros. Now, just in time for Pep’s 50th birthday (big congratulations at this point) you have understood what football means in addition to a few nice kicks on goal and free kicks, and sometimes impressive dribbles.

What is even more important: You ran the risk that Hansi Flick, when you only came in after 28 minutes for the injured Serge Gnabry, took you out again, as in the 2-1 win against Leverkusen. You were spared this maximum penalty. So that was a huge liberation in two and three ways, this one action. And you have shaken off 90 percent of the basic fear that something could happen again, like in early August 2019 when you tore your cruciate ligament at ManCity against Liverpool FC. Conquering this fear is worth more than victory. It lets you breathe freely again.

Benjamin Parat can also take a deep breath. The right-back was unrecognizable after his great first year in the triple winner with 44 appearances and four goals, had lost his regular place. I wanted to argue for Joshua Kimmich in this position again, because despite all the importance he is on the six, he is by far the best right-back in the world. Offensive even stronger than defensive. And a playmaker from the right by the way. But now Pavard seems to be returning to his old strengths, even if the flanks are not yet snowing down on Robert Lewandowski’s head as desired. Incidentally, the Pole with an exemplary running and duel attitude in midfield.

Nevertheless, instead of FC Bayern, I would deal with a return of Thiago Alcantara. He would bring so much security with his calming art pass game, would relieve Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and above all the defense, in which good old Jerome Boateng radiated a little more security against Freiburg than Niklas Süle, who still has a lot of upside potential .

If Hansi Flick is dependent on throwing in the old warhorse Javier Martinez (32) from the Basque Country in dire need, then that says it all. What is useful to Bayern, he can still play at 40. For the 80 million transfer Lukas Hernandez, on the other hand, who probably avoided the penalty shoot-out in Kiel, there is no place in dire need.

For Thiago, however, there would be room anywhere. The Spanish Catalans pissed off with Liverpool, where things are wrong at the back and front, just happily winning 0-0, as they did last against Manchester United. Far from the top. Thiago, Munich’s people who know him whisper, would prefer to walk from gray Liverpool to Munich, where they didn’t want to deny him the desire to experience something (hahaha) and finally let him go for a stupid 22 million euros.

Hansi Flick would be of great help with this one person. And not just him. You too, dear Leroy Sané, would have to straddle less and could dribble and shoot more.