Apology not accepted
Tuchel rages against Hamann and the “Bild” newspaper
February 3, 2024, 8:42 p.m
During a visit to the fan club, Thomas Tuchel answered a question about coaching jobs abroad by saying that it would generally appeal to him. Sky expert Dietmar Hamann uses this for a verbal attack and then has to row back. But the FC Bayern coach rejects the apology.
Thomas Tuchel rejected Sky expert Dietmar Hamann’s apology after his critical statements towards the Bayern Munich coach and followed up in the ongoing dispute with the ex-national player. “The things that happened when I visited the fan club were taken completely out of context. Statements were deliberately made that were not true,” said Tuchel in a pool after the 3-1 (1-1) win against Borussia Mönchengladbach -Interview with ran, Sport1 and ZDF. “We were all shocked at what he made of it, it doesn’t matter whether he apologized,” Tuchel continued: “I don’t buy it from him – and that’s why (the apology, editor) also not relevant.
During a visit to the fan club last Sunday, the 50-year-old answered a general question that he would be interested in foreign countries again and emphasized that Spain in particular had “an exceptional league”. Hamann sharply criticized this statement. Bayern then complained in a statement on Monday about “unobjective statements” about Tuchel, without mentioning Hamann’s name. “He didn’t say that he would like to train in Barcelona or Spain. I would like to apologize to Thomas Tuchel and Bayern for that,” said Hamann.
After the success over Gladbach, Tuchel also complained more generally about what he saw as the “extremely personal” and “unobjective” reporting. The “newspaper with big letters” recently “overheard” him “bitching to himself” during the game in Augsburg (3:2). “For me, a limit has been crossed.”
The trainer’s health situation was “all good” again. For reasons of consideration and caution, he came to the game wearing a mask. “Normally I shouldn’t be contagious anymore,” he said on Sky before kick-off. Apparently there was a virus in the FC Bayern coaching office recently, Tuchel said and replied with a smile to the question of whether the voice was enough for 90 minutes: It wasn’t that important, in the full Allianz Arena “nobody can hear me anyway.” -The words after the final whistle should resonate.