Thursday April 22, 2021
After hostility and “agitation”
FC Bayern protectively face Salihamidžić
The roles in the power struggle of FC Bayern are clearly distributed: coach Hansi Flick is the good one, sports director Hasan Salihamidžić is not. Fans even start a petition against the 44-year-old. The record champions are now reacting decisively to the public attacks.
President Herbert Hainer of FC Bayern Munich has demonstratively backed the publicly controversial sports director Hasan Salihamidžić. “FC Bayern are unanimous and emphatically against hostility towards Hasan Hasan Salihamidžić,” said Hainer on the website of the reigning Champions League winner: “Objective criticism is of course always permissible. However, we condemn personal attacks and incitement in the strongest possible terms – there is not the slightest space for that at FC Bayern. ”
FC Bayern fans recently started a petition for Salihamidžić to be expelled. The initiative “pro Hansi Flick, Brazzo out” calls for the “immediate resignation” of the sports director. “As fans, members, fan clubs and supporters of the club, we find it unacceptable how the world’s best coach is dealt with! He took over the position of head coach in a difficult situation and got the maximum out of the team (6 titles),” they justified Initiators of their petition.
Every medal has “two sides”, explained the former adidas boss and indirectly referred to the quarrels between Salihamidžić and the coach Hansi Flick, who was willing to leave: “We all, including myself, shared the great performance of the team and the excellent We have been pleased with football for the past 18 months, and we understand that a coach would like a squad with preferably 30 top stars – we all do. But we have Corona, we have to calculate with a loss of sales of around 150 million euros. “
FC Bayern is “still well positioned economically, but the drag marks are considerable,” said Hainer. The task of a sports director is to take into account not only the sporting aspects, but also the economic ones: “It is fundamentally inherent in the system that a coach has more focus on short-term success, and a sports director also has to calculate in the medium to long term.”
In this context, Hainer made it clear that “we all make decisions together, also when it comes to the composition of the squad. And together we will also ensure that we a) calm down again and b) continue to write our success story in the future . “
Between Flick, who took over FC Bayern in late autumn 2019 and has since led to six titles, and Salihamidžić there has been an increasing number of crashes in the recent past. Last Saturday, after the 3-2 win at VfL Wolfsburg, Flick announced on TV that he wanted to leave the club until 2023 despite the contract. The Bayern management publicly reprimanded the coach the next day and referred to an agreed meeting after the Bundesliga game at Mainz 05 on Saturday – in which FC Bayern can make its 31st championship perfect early.
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