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After Black Friday, FC Bayern is crunching
Status: 04/09/2023 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Thomas Tuchel thinks the squad is “thin” and Joshua Kimmich is hoping nobody gets hurt. The bosses of FC Bayern see it differently despite the missed transfers. Uli Hoeneß feels compelled to speak a word of power.
The deadline day is still having an effect at FC Bayern. Munich coach Thomas Tuchel wished for a defensive midfielder and a full-back on the last day when transfers were still possible. He didn’t get anyone – Joao Palinha’s transfer fell through at the last second, and the other two defensive candidates Armel Bella-Kotchap from FC Southampton and Real Valladolid’s Ivan Fresdena also canceled. For the club, it was Deadline Day for Black Friday on the transfer market.
Much to the annoyance of Tuchel, who describes his own squad of 22 players as “thin”. “Now we only have six trained defenders in four positions. That was not what I wanted. We have to be a bit lucky now and get through until winter,” said Tuchel after his team’s 2-1 win in Mönchengladbach.
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Get through the winter – that sounds like an invitation to the club bosses to get active on the transfer market after Christmas at the latest. Bayern’s CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen indirectly contradicted his coach: “I still think that our squad is top-class. I don’t see any reason at all not to start the season with confidence.” Dreesen then added an explosive sentence to Tuchel on the Sky microphone: “He has to be a little more creative, that’s his job.”
This brought Bavaria’s President Herbert Hainer onto the scene. The 69-year-old tried to mediate at Sport1 and tried to calm things down. “What Jan-Christian Dreesen meant: Now the transfer window is over, now we have to make the best of it. And I’m convinced that Thomas Tuchel will do the same,” said Hainer.
“We used to laugh about this Deadline Day”
In Mönchengladbach he did. Tuchel surprisingly brought Konrad Laimer on the right side of defense and in the closing stages placed regular central defender Matthijs de Ligt in central defensive midfield. The plan worked and Bayern deservedly won thanks to a goal by Matthys Tel, who was also a substitute, in the closing stages. Besides the win, the best news for Tuchel was that all of his players were unhurt. “I hope we all stay healthy. Then we won’t be understaffed,” said Joshua Kimmich.
Thomas Tuchel has to “be a little more creative”. A statement that the Bayern coach should not like
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As so often in the past, the honorary president had the last word in the dispute over the missed transfers this summer. “Apart from exceptional cases, we should no longer be in the middle of the action on the last transfer day in the future. We used to laugh about this deadline day,” said Uli Hoeneß of the “SZ”.
From his point of view, transfers should ideally be completed by the start of training or by August 1st at the latest. After the end of the summer change window last Friday, the use of the word “transfer” is now “a punishable offense until December 1st,” said Hoeneß with a smile.
