FC Bayern Munich Tuchel on Bayern squad
“A little thin, a little little. A bit brave in some positions”
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Damper for Bayern – Tuchel’s dream player doesn’t come after all
FC Bayern is experiencing a bitter final day of the transfer window and has to make do without any new signings. The change from Thomas Tuchel’s dream player Joao Palhinha also failed surprisingly.
Bayern Munich has to pursue the ambitious goals for the season with a team that coach Tuchel has left unfulfilled. The coach had seen a need for action in one position in particular. His transfer conclusion is now sobering.
FC Bayern’s transfer final spurt can confidently be described as a failure. For example, the intended commitment of the Portuguese João Palhinha from Fulham for 65 million euros burst on the last day of the transfer period. In the end, not a single one of the desired additions made it to Munich. An embarrassment for the club – and also a big bump for Thomas Tuchel, who was actively involved as a member of the transfer committee.
Tuchel also played an important role in another role: As a coach, he called for newcomers as determinedly as few of his predecessors, and he repeatedly expressed his desire for a defensive six. Main objective: signing Palhinha.
The 28-year-old was already sitting on Säbener Straße, everything seemed to be dry, the medical check was passed, the performance jersey was flocked – but Fulham didn’t give the okay because the English club didn’t have a replacement. Bayern couldn’t do anything about that – but internally, according to information from “Bild”, there were voices saying that the deal could have been tackled much earlier in order not to get into the deadline day madness, which is actually not typical of Bavaria is. In addition, according to information from the newspaper, the German record champions should have been clear about a possible transfer with the candidates Scott McTominay (26), Trevoh Chalobah (24) and Armel Bella-Kotchap (21) – but in the end there was disagreement about the respective players, nobody came.
He was “very sad”, says Tuchel
Shortly before the game this Saturday evening at Borussia Mönchengladbach (in the sports ticker of WELT), Tuchel was asked by the “Sky” reporter whether it was possible to achieve the ambitious goals with this team. “We’ll see. The squad is a bit thin, a bit little. We will do our best and push the squad. It’s a good squad, but a little brave in some positions.” He was “very sad” when he found out that the transfer from Palinha hadn’t worked. “Because I knew how much the player wanted to join us and I know what the player would have given us,” said Tuchel.
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Tuchel was asked what went wrong. The Bayern coach replied that he couldn’t say that, he was on the plane to Düsseldorf. He also said: “Internal remains internal, that’s nothing for television.”
Now that sounds very fatalistic. Tuchel wanted to know what was “fatalistic” about it. “We have 18 men in the squad now. If we are spared from injuries. We would have liked to have added great quality. That didn `t work. That’s why we’re giving the squad confidence now. We lost a few players, including players who played a lot for us. So we’ll see,” he said.
The fact is: Tuchel now has to get along without a desired six and defense reinforcements, Bayern is defensively weaker in width than before.
Haman speaks of a poisoned atmosphere at Bayern
Bayern Munich’s CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen, on the other hand, said that from his point of view the squad was “still first-class”. Of course he wanted to be able to fulfill the coach’s wish “for a defensive midfielder with João Palhinha. Sadly it did not work. But even without him we have an excellent cast. I don’t see any reason not to start the season with confidence.”
For ex-national player Dietmar Hamann, FC Bayern’s missed transfer target is a home-grown problem. “You have a power vacuum at the moment and that’s why you fell flat on your face yesterday,” said the former Bayern professional on “Sky”. The 50-year-old even spoke of a “poisoned atmosphere, from the board to the coach and from the coach to the team”.
In addition to Palhinha, a replacement for the defensive players Benjamin Pavard (Inter Milan) and Josip Stanisic (on loan to Leverkusen) could no longer be realized. One candidate was FC Southampton’s Armel Bella-Kotchap, but the Germany international joined PSV Eindhoven on Friday.
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In particular, the collapsed deal with Palhinha, which was primarily intended to be an alternative to Joshua Kimmich, could now become a problem for the coach, Hamann believes: “What is Kimmich thinking now? Does Kimmich still get his jersey dirty for Thomas Tuchel? Does he walk that last meter you have to do to win the Champions League to become champions?”
At Bayern, CEO Dreesen would have to “appear a little more energetically and forcefully” and put Tuchel “in his place,” said Hamann: “You have a coach who comments on things that he shouldn’t actually comment on.” This is happening , because there is “no strong hand at the moment” in Munich.
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