Before the top game against Leverkusen on Sunday, FC Bayern still has no indication of whether it might be one of the last Bundesliga games in which they can use their most expensive professional. Lucas Hernández, 25, continues to face six months’ imprisonment in Spain. Next Tuesday he will appear in court in Madrid, Herbert Hainer, President of FC Bayern, confirmed on Thursday evening. You support the player “of course”. Otherwise, these are Hernández’s “private things”.
These private things can of course become professionally relevant very quickly if the Frenchman can no longer go about his work. But the club has still decided to comment on the subject sparingly. “I experienced him as normal and didn’t notice any negative effects,” said coach Julian Nagelsmann on Friday about his central defender.
Nagelsmann and Hernández, here in September on the training ground on Säbener Straße.
(Foto: Frank Hoermann/imago images)
“He’s behaving normally, has trained very well, made a good impression and is quite normal in my planning for both games.” If he hadn’t read about the case in the newspaper, Nagelsmann said, he would not have noticed anything about Hernández.
The fact that Nagelsmann Hernández starts against Leverkusen and next Wednesday in Lisbon – there is nothing against that, but everything that comes after that depends on the legal process in Spain. On Wednesday, a court in Madrid ordered Hernández to be sentenced to six months in prison.
He has to appear before this court on Tuesday at 11 a.m. and then has ten days to begin his sentence in a Spanish correctional facility of his choice. Hernández and his lawyers have appealed to the next higher instance.
The Marseille-born footballer had already been sentenced to this prison term at the end of 2019 for disregarding a verdict. An application for suspension has already been rejected – among other things because Hernández is a repeat offender. A total of two judgments for domestic violence and one for breach of judgment were passed against him.
The current case looks like this: After a dispute with his partner, in which both sides are said to have used violence, a court imposed a ban on contact. Hernández and his partner reconciled shortly afterwards, flew on vacation together – and ran through passport control together at Madrid airport on their return.
Since the ban on contact also applies in the event of reconciliation – a form of victim protection – Hernández thus circumvented the court ruling and was temporarily arrested at the airport. The authorities opened a case and Hernández was convicted. Whether he is actually missing from FC Bayern for half a year will be decided in some form by October 29th.
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