Why the debate about Thomas Müller is justified

Again and again Thomas Tuchel has to talk about it for minutes when Thomas Müller is not in the starting XI. The personnel is also a media topic – which has its justification for several reasons.

In his subject, football coach Thomas Tuchel is world-class because he has demonstrated with small and large clubs that he can prepare his team so masterfully game after game. That started in Mainz and later continued in Dortmund, Paris and London. And despite initial disappointments, there is still no good reason to doubt that things should be different in Munich.

But those responsible there also hired him because they believed that Tuchel had learned in the meantime that he had to prepare his team masterfully – and then also communicate that masterfully.