Bizarre fashion week appearance: FCB boss Nagelsmann increases pressure on Serge Gnabry

Bizarre fashion week appearance
FCB boss Nagelsmann increases pressure on Serge Gnabry

For FC Bayern, a win is a must in the first home game of the year, and one star is particularly important. Serge Gnabry does not rely on regeneration after the 1-1 draw in Leipzig. He visits the Fashion Week in Paris and presents himself as a fashion icon. Coach Julian Nagelsmann is not happy.

Serge Gnabry showed up in an artistically painted one-piece suit with a huge handbag – tone on tone, of course. Then the fashion-conscious international wore a silk headscarf with a black coat. The FC Bayern star drew a lot of attention in Paris when he made the famous Fashion Week his catwalk on the record champions’ Sunday off.

However, the 27-year-old’s short trip did not cause much enthusiasm – especially between the 1-1 draw in Leipzig on Friday and the game on Tuesday (8.30 p.m. / Sky / Sat.1 and in the ntv.de live ticker) against 1. FC Cologne has little time to regenerate. Trainer Julian Nagelsmann avoided overly critical words on Monday, but made a clear announcement to Gnabry and Co. for their leisure time activities.

There are “no conditions” at FC Bayern, Nagelsmann emphasized, but: “I have to justify my days off to my bosses myself. When the social channels are full of various shootings, the chain of argumentation goes to waste.” That’s why, according to the Bayern coach, it’s all the more important “that the right answer is given on the pitch”. If the performance is good, “it’s okay, if not, I have to address it”.

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After the mixed start in Leipzig, Gnabry is not the only one who is responsible and in focus. Against Cologne, which is the team of the hour after beating Bremen 7-1, Nagelsmann demanded better processes and more speed from his team. It was “quite strange in the room” against RB. He therefore “clearly addressed what we can do better”.

First and foremost, FC Bayern must “bring emotionality back onto the pitch. We have to defend ourselves.” Especially since his colleague Steffen Baumgart has a team “with very aggressive counter-pressing. They like football. They can score seven goals,” said Nagelsmann, “but they can also get four.”

Baumgart knows that. FC have an opponent “in front of them who has beaten other teams with a similar result. We know what to expect.” Games like the one against Bremen would “happens. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative. We’ll see who has the moments on Tuesday.”

With a five-point lead over the competition, Munich, who have won 15 of their last 16 games against Cologne (one draw), are already the autumn champions before the last game in the first half of the season – for the 26th time. But the fight for the title has already been decided, at least for Bayern’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß: “I’m 100 percent certain that Bayern will become German champions, and I don’t care much about anything that comes after that.”

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