By ML
Published yesterday at 7:35 p.m., Updated now
According to the German press, Zidane and Ribéry could find themselves on the Bayern bench next season. Baptiste Autissier / Panoramic / Baptiste Autissier / Inside / Panoramic / Cesare Purini
The German club announced that Xabi Alonso, favorite for the position of coach, would “probably not” be recruited. A Zidane-Ribéry tandem could succeed Thomas Tuchel.
In the very complicated season that Bayern Munich is experiencing this year, Thomas Tuchel announced that he would leave the German ship. While no successor has been found for the moment, one name has just been ruled out, that of the favorite of the Bavarian leaders, Thomas Tuchel.
Xabi Alonso, who currently manages Bayer Leverkusen, Bundesliga leader promised to the title, “probably won’t” the next coach of Bayern Munich, the honorary president of the Bavarian club, Uli Hoeness, admitted on Thursday. “We will see if it is possible to bring him this year, but it will be difficult, if not probably impossible”said the former German international in an interview with Bavarian television.
Bayern have not abandoned the Xabi Alonso track
“Let’s say that if he had been two or three years away from success (achieved with Leverkusen, editor’s note) it would probably have been easier to bring him in”, added Hoeness. Xavi Alonso, who spent three seasons at Bayern as a player, nonetheless remains the Munich club’s number 1 target.
The local press, however, mentioned a second possibility, surprising but very serious. Bild assures that Bayern Munich could bet on a Zidane-Ribéry duo. The latter, who played between 2007 and 2019 under the colors of the largest club across the Rhine, would thus become the deputy of “Zizou” according to the daily Bild.
An association that makes sense because Ribéry, adored in his former club whose workings he knows, wishes to become a coach. He has just been appointed assistant to Stefano Colantuono at Salernitana to help him in a rescue mission in Serie A (the club is currently last in the Italian championship). Ribéry also has the advantage of knowing how to speak German, unlike Zidane, who also does not speak English. Annoying to make yourself understood in the locker room. Ribéry could therefore serve as a transmission belt.
Zidane wants to find a job
Without a position since his departure from Real Madrid in 2021, Zidane had not hidden his recent desire to find a bench after being coveted by several big European teams. Since the French team still refuses him with Didier Deschamps still in office and reinforced by Philippe Diallo, the president of the French Football Federation, the idea of a transfer to Germany, Zidane could study closely a possible proposal from Munich.
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