Saturday 17th April 2021
“I want to get out of my contract”
Flick now officially wants to leave FC Bayern
Coach Hansi Flick will leave FC Bayern Munich at the end of the season. This was announced by the coach of the German record champions after winning the Bundesliga at VfL Wolfsburg. He has already taken appropriate steps.
Hansi Flick ensures clarity in the game that has been simmering for weeks about his future – and what the successful coach announces should hardly satisfy FC Bayern: Flick no longer wants to be the record champions’ coach after the end of the season. He has already asked his bosses to terminate his contract, which is still valid until 2023, and he has already informed the team, said Flick after the 3-2 win in the top game on the 29th matchday of the Bundesliga in Wolfsburg.
“I would like to get out of my contract at the end of the season. That is a fact,” said the Bayern coach at “Sky”. He announced the decision to the club shortly after the Champions League out last Tuesday against Paris Saint-Germain, and he informed his players today, Flick revealed. Before the game, when asked if he could say goodbye after the championship, the coach cryptically replied: “That’s your thesis, I don’t have to answer it …” The club has not yet responded to Flick’s spectacular explanation.
But the leading players reported immediately: “The reasons are not important to us, it was an emotional story for all of us because we had such a successful time,” said captain Manuel Neuer. “It was particularly important for him that he tell us personally.” Thomas Müller understands the outgoing coach: “He left a lot of energy in the intensive year and a half. To be a coach at Bayern you need a thick skin. You are asked a lot and you always have to stand by your team.”
“It was important to me …”
“It was just important to me that the team find out about this from me, because there is already one or the other of floor radio”, said Flick, whose contract in Munich is still valid until 2023. “I’m absolutely thrilled with this team.” He also wanted to “thank the club that gave me the opportunity to train this team.” Flick took over the team in autumn 2019 as the successor to the dismissed Niko Kovac and rose from the interim solution to a successful coach: In his first season he won six titles, including the Champions League.
The trainer is apparently worn down by the long-term clinch with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic, which has been going on for months. “I prefer the first,” answered the coach when asked whether he prefers harmony or friction. “If it works in harmony, the chance of success is more promising.” Bayern’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was also annoyed recently: “We all have to pull together, have to work together harmoniously, loyally and professionally,” the Bayern boss confessed: “That is my clear demand on the sporting leadership. That is what FC has Bavaria always excellent. ” Salihamidzic and Flick argued for a long time internally and recently also publicly about which players were brought in and who had how much say in the transfers. Even after the final whistle on Saturday, Salihamidzic had to follow his coach to the bench at VfL Wolfsburg to congratulate him on one of the most important victories of the season.
Should the club comply with Flick’s wish for an early termination, he, Flick, would be free to take over the office of national coach. Joachim Löw’s long-time assistant is the DFB’s ideal solution for his successor.
Future “not at all clear”
The future is “not at all clear,” said Flick on Sky. There has not yet been a conversation about the German national team. “Of course the DFB is an option that every coach has to consider.” Rummenigge had categorically ruled out the release of his coach to the portal “The Athletic”: “You (the DFB) will have to plan without Hansi. My experience tells me that coaches who work well at Bayern have to be cared for and kept for the long term.” That was before Flick’s announcement, however.
After the Champions League game in Paris, Flick had explicitly avoided making any public commitments to FC Bayern: “I just keep having the situation to evaluate everything and constantly face new challenges or to ask me how you can do it.” tackle, and and and, “he said in an interview with” Sky “expert Lothar Matthäus. “My family would always support me, no matter what I would do. They will always stand behind me. That is why it doesn’t matter to them whether I have a different rhythm at the DFB.”
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