FC Bayern and Noussair Mazraoui win in the Champions League at Galatasaray

In the game only in a supporting role, before and after in a main role at FC Bayern Munich: Noussair Mazraoui Image: Reuters

Against Galatasaray it became clear that Munich under coach Tuchel is still not a 90-minute team. And immediately afterwards it becomes clear that FC Bayern is currently about something completely different.

Late on Tuesday evening, Jan-Christian Dreesen stood in a dining room in Istanbul and made a joke. He had been speaking to the FC Bayern Munich soccer team and their supporters for more than two minutes. “I am sure that the coach’s creativity will bear fruit again,” said Dreesen in his banquet speech, looking ahead to the next games in the Bundesliga and DFB Cup – and everyone who was there probably knew how This is what the CEO meant: When Thomas Tuchel, the coach, regularly reminded both Dreesen and all the other powerful men on Säbener Strasse this summer with his statements that he thought his squad was missing a player in some places, said Dreesen once said that the coach had to be “more creative”. This was then quoted and interpreted again and again. And that evening Dreesen did it himself. That was the joke.

If this had just been a normal week for FC Bayern, then this joke would probably have been quoted and interpreted in the next few minutes. How does Dreesen find Tuchel? How does Tuchel find Dreesen? And for those for whom football reporting is just transfer reporting: How does the midfielder Palhinha, who may yet move to Munich this winter, find all of this?