A Bayern coach was given a coffin-shaped cake
“The connection to the players was no longer good enough”
FC Bayern is apparently separating from Julian Nagelsmann. “It’s a bang,” says WELT sports reporter Julien Wolff. The reasons for dropping out are varied.
When FC Bayern fires its coach, things often get strange. A coach found out about his resignation over the radio. Another told the President, “We need to do something about it.” To which he replied, “Yes, you’re fired!”
NOn Monday it was also possible to read what Bayern President Herbert Hainer thought of his coach Julian Nagelsmann: “We are planning with him for the long term and have documented this with a five-year contract because we want to build something with him,” he told “Kicker”. Four days later, the construction work was stopped.
The 16th expulsion of a coach in the record champions’ 58th year in the Bundesliga was again one of the house type. Because when FC Bayern fires its coaches, it often has traits of a posse – as a look at the past documents.
Branko Zebec: The first champion coach (1969) resigned at the end of the 1969/70 season because manager Robert Schwan talked him into the line-up. They fired him in March 1970 after a derby defeat around 1860 – lying in third place. Successor Udo Lattek is rang out of bed at 4:30 a.m. in Cologne so that a coach is there in the morning.
Udo Lattek: The great Bayern era of the 1970s began with the former DFB coach. After the championship hat-trick (1972-74) and winning the national championship cup in 1974, however, all the stars are visibly fed up. On January 2, 1975, Lattek marched into the President’s office and demanded: “Mr. Neudecker, something has to change.” His reply: “Yes, you’re fired!”
1974: Udo Lattek (right) with his successful Bayern team
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Dettmar Cramer: Lattek’s successor completes the European Cup hat-trick (1974-76), but in the league there are five bankruptcies in a row in autumn 1977 (club record). Cramer is dumped, and football Germany laughs about the how: Neudecker calls Frankfurt’s Gyula Lóránt in Cramer’s presence, then the clubs simply swap coaches, even though they play against each other in the Uefa Cup. In the first leg, Lóránt is still the Eintracht coach, in the second leg he coaches Bayern. Cramer refuses to be deported without a fight and wins a settlement of 125,000 DM.
Gyula Lóránt: The Hungarian messes with the rude manners of the team, which revolts. Paul Breitner decides: “Not him!” At 1:7 in Düsseldorf in December 1978, they played amateurishly with an offside trap, against Lóránt’s orders. Neudecker gives him leave, which Lóránt misinterprets: “I’ll come back with the whip.” Error. Two months pass before the contract is terminated, also because Bayern does not have Lóránt’s phone number.
Pal Cernai: The Hungarian wins the championship trophy again after six years (1980 and 1981), but fails in the untitled 1982/83 season due to opposition from fans and sponsors. A member places an ad in the “tz”: “Do you also want President Hoffmann and Csernai to have to leave?” The gesture of a baker handing Csernai a cake-shaped coffin is even more tasteless. He is the first coach that manager Uli Hoeneß fires.
The young Uli Hoeneß and coach Pal Csernai
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Sören Lerby: Jupp Heynckes’ successor is the second coach in the 1991/92 disaster season to fly: in 15 games he averages 0.86 points, in March 1992 he is fired by telephone.
Eric Ribbeck: Avoids relegation in 1992 but does not win any titles. Bayern went into the winter break in 1993 in third place, which is not enough for the bosses. President Fritz Scherer flies after Ribbeck to Gran Canaria and urges him to resign. He still fights back for five days. He then allows himself to be persuaded with the prospect of a master’s bonus (DM 250,000) and the remaining salary (DM 300,000). The Kaiser follows – and becomes champion in 1994.
Erich Ribbeck in balloon silk, which was completely fashionable at the time
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Felix Magath: The “grinder” led Bayern to doubles in 2005 and 2006, but his loan expired in January 2007 after a 0-0 draw against Bochum. Bayern is only fourth. He found out that he was being kicked out of the car radio on the way to Säbener Strasse.
Louis van Gaal: The Dutchman is counted out in his second season by Uli Hoeneß in 2010 in the TV studio. (“He doesn’t allow any other opinions.”) Van Gaal shoots back: “I’m very disappointed!” A crack that can no longer be repaired, especially since van Gaal wants to build up the young goalkeeper Thomas Kraft as a competitor to Manuel Neuer, the he would not have fetched. When Kraft fails at 1: 1 in Nuremberg, Hoeneß is enough: thrown out. Van Gaal suspects it – and already says goodbye on the bus.
In addition, a look at the club’s history gives a bad omen for the designated Nagelsmann successor Thomas Tuchel: None of the coaches who started in Munich in March (Lattek, Csernai, Ribbeck) ended the season with a title.
