Thomas Tuchel is quitting as Bayern coach after the season, Max Eberl officially took up his position as Munich’s new sports director on his first day of work this Friday – and has many issues to address straight away.
The new Bayern sports director Max Eberl knows from day 1 what to expect – a lot, a lot of work. Getty Images
“I had my first day at work today,” said Max Eberl on Friday evening before the important Bundesliga away game at SC Freiburg – and in this breath at the microphone DAZN Admittedly, there are many big tasks on his table.
Eberl himself raised the question that will of course always be asked when negotiating new contracts with many players: “Who is actually the coach in the new season? That is the issue that, in the best case scenario, we will solve first in order to then make the further decisions that need to be prepared in parallel.” In plain language: After the end of this season, who will succeed Thomas Tuchel, who has agreed with FCB on the early end of his collaboration, which originally ran until 2025?
Eberl and the new Bayern coach: “There’s no telling it off”
The new sports director of the German record champions (contract until June 30, 2027) does not recognize the potential for conflict that Eberl has to speak to professionals while the new coach is not even there yet and will certainly bring his own sporting vision with him. Not at all: “It won’t be complicated at all. First of all, Thomas Tuchel is still the coach … and besides, Max Eberl will never – he doesn’t dare – somehow influence the team lineup.”
Football is of course discussed and philosophized between Eberl and the future Bayern coach, “that would be bad if not. It would be bad if two people who have achieved something in football didn’t talk about football. But actually there are a clear separation, that is a clear separation of duties, which is usual. There is no clearing it up.”
Eberl: “There are also players who don’t cost 100 or 80 million euros”
What else is in store for Eberl, a long-time Gladbach resident and briefly employed in Leipzig, who was introduced during the week as the new man at Säbener Straße and thus at his former long-standing training club Bayern Munich? “Christoph (friend, sports director, Anm. d. Red.) and I will have to do the balancing act. And that’s not even a balancing act, it’s on three levels: the current season, squad planning and finding a new coach.” Apparently you’re not consciously aware of time pressure, says Eberl: “We want to take our time because we’re on it Want to find the most suitable coach for Bayern Munich. But we can’t take our time forever.”
But his current focus is “on the coming days – the game in Freiburg, the extremely important game against Lazio (second leg in the Champions League round of 16 on Tuesday after the 0-1 in the first leg; Anm. d. Red.) also for the continuation of the second half of the season.”
“But we will work in parallel in the background to solve all of this,” concluded Eberl, who also made it clear that the FCB of the future cannot just constantly bring in players of Harry Kane’s caliber: “Harry has proven his value for Bayern, for them German Bundesliga. But we want to build a team with development and success. That’s what we have to do. There are also players who don’t cost 100 or 80 million euros. We have to build a team with the financial possibilities that I have become.” In addition, Munich already has promising players like Jamal Musiala (21) or Aleksandar Pavlovic (19) who can be built on.
And veterans like defender Eric Dier (30), who only came from Tottenham in the winter, will also be part of FC Bayern in 2024/25, as Eberl revealed: “His contract has been extended by one year due to missions.”
Also read: After the separations from Gladbach and Leipzig – Eberl’s change from popular figure to bogeyman
2024-03-01 19:52:00
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