“My Bayern” is the name of the column by SPORT BILD reporter legend Raimund Hinko, which deals with the German record champions. Hinko has been with Munich for decades.
Dear Hasan “Brazzo” Salihamidzic,
how practical that your birthday coincides with the New Year celebrations, so also with the New Year’s Eve celebrations. So that you can celebrate everything in one go. So at least you couldn’t lose any time looking for a new goalkeeper – who should prevent Bayern from achieving his goals – the eleventh championship in a row, the cup victory and above all the Champions League victory – at least until the summer for the seriously injured world-class man Manuel Neuer – not missed with a bang. Of course, by summer – sorry for the pun – Mönchengladbach’s Yann Sommer would of course be the best choice, even if he is already 34 years old.
With Sommer, the sun is already rising when he just smiles at his opponents. You’ve seen enough of that at FC Bayern. At 0: 2 in July 2021 in Munich. When the cup ended, the 0:5 in October 1921 in Gladbach. And especially at 1-1 in August 2022 when you had chances to win the game by double digits. When this hotshot from Switzerland seemed to have hundreds of arms to scrape even the most treacherous ball off the line. But that is exactly one reason that should give you food for thought.
No, not the fact that Sommer no longer grows taller than 183 centimeters. Because that’s relatively little for a goalkeeper, almost dwarfish, there have already been enough critics who warn against a transfer. Even if the legendary Mexican goalkeeper and free kick specialist Jorge Campos was only 1.68 meters tall and still world class.
What makes me think is that Sommer became a hero, especially in games against FC Bayern. In Munich you have had bad experiences with it. Because Duisburg winger Klaus Wunder played his biggest games in the heyday of all times, in the early 1970s, libero Franz Beckenbauer said to manager Robert Schwan: “Bring them to Munich. Then he can no longer be a nuisance to us.” In Munich in 1974/75 he even became the European champion of the national champions. Wonder, that was such a wonderful name for a Bayern star, especially since it also sold well in interviews. But the miracle didn’t happen, he earned more whistles than applause. Especially when he showed his sprint qualities (100 meters in 10.8 seconds). “He’s faster than the ball,” was the verdict right away at the start of the Bundesliga, a 0:6 in Offenbach. The guest appearance was over after a year and a half, and Wunder was loaned out to Hannover 96.
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Calle Del Haye came from Gladbach, like summer most likely now. There wasn’t a player who didn’t insist in 1980 that you have to get him because he floated away from everyone against Bayern with long flowing hair on the wing. He didn’t say anything either, even played for five years, but only played 74 competitive games and only scored seven goals before he ended up at Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Bruno Labbadia, Andreas Herzog and Mario Götze also impressed against Bayern at Kaiserslautern, Bremen and Dortmund, but did not make it into regular players. Although there are enough counter-examples, such as Robert Lewandowski, for example, who also came from BVB. But Munich is always a risk because everything is so different. Because you can never imagine that until you experience it yourself as a player. I think Kylian Mbappe would also have problems at Bayern. Even if he shoots them to the ground in the upcoming Champions League round of 16.
No matter how: Yann Sommer may be the better solution than many other candidates that you, dear Hasan, are talking to these days, even spoke to on your birthday. Of course, Frankfurt’s Kevin Trapp – he too has mostly saved the most impossible balls against Bayern – would be an almost even better solution, even if he didn’t voluntarily line up behind Neuer in six months. Seville’s Moroccan Bono would also be a good solution.
It won’t fail because of the money. And Sommer cannot fail blatantly because no fan expects him to be better than Manuel Neuer. But that is the dilemma.
Or you can find someone crazy like your current CEO, Oliver Kahn. He was so obsessed with the idea of being in a Bundesliga goal very quickly that the goalkeeper at the time, Alexander Famulla, allegedly refused to share a room with the then substitute Kahn. For fear that he could suffocate him with a pillow while he was sleeping. Famulla often woke up in bed, drenched in sweat. A little later, Kahn was in goal for KSC and soon for Bayern. Yes, dear Hasan, you need such a madman now.
