The fans are still looking forward to the games of the German teams in the Champions League. But if Bayern fail in Madrid, the time of apparent calm in Munich will be over. Then Max Eberl and Bayern will have to deliver quickly on the coaching question.
It is surprisingly quiet around FC Bayern Munich. Even though the drama surrounding the almost tragic search for a coach has dominated the headlines surrounding the record champions for weeks, fans and the media are surprisingly reticent when it comes to blaming those responsible for Bayern’s unsuccessful search for a new coach. That was already different.
But it is probably just the calm before the storm that is currently keeping the events on Säbener Strasse under control under a cloud of haze. If it weren’t for the Champions League second leg at Real Madrid this Wednesday evening (9 p.m. on DAZN and in the live ticker on ntv.de) The coaching discussion would certainly be conducted on a completely different level. The record champions are currently spared many unpleasant questions. But the handbrake that has been put on – all officials should prepare for this – will be released at the exact moment when no other topic distracts from the coaching antics. And one person in particular should prepare for this moment: Max Eberl.
Nothing stays behind closed doors
So far, the new man in the position of sports director at FC Bayern can only be said to have done a really good job. Immediately before he took office, Bayern declared that they no longer wanted to continue with Thomas Tuchel next season. Not an easy time to start for Max Eberl. But in the last few weeks, the native of Lower Bavaria has managed to overcome every embarrassment in the search for a coach in an extremely relaxed manner, always openly and, above all, with great honesty.
The fact that at Bayern nothing, absolutely nothing, can take place and remain behind closed doors for long is an experience that Max Eberl had to experience directly and directly for the first time in his career. In Gladbach, as manager, he had to convince his coach Lucien Favre, who was sitting on his packed suitcases, several times to stay at Borussia and here and there even had to collect it himself at the airport – but the local newspapers, let alone the national ones, never reported on these strange stories. In Munich the situation is completely different.
“The question that seems to interest all of Germany”
Because even though Eberl tried from the start not to name any names or comment, all coaching candidates have been in the media since day one. Eberl knows how to correctly assess the shark tank FC Bayern, which is always comprehensively exploited in all its facets by the media, for example when he says about the discussion – “I know, it’s the question that feels like the whole of Germany is interested” – but it is But it’s another matter to draw the right conclusions from it and then act accordingly. Just imagine if Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamidžić were still in charge at FC Bayern – the fans and the media would work on them without question.
How dramatic and extraordinary the current situation surrounding Bayern’s coaching search is is shown by the simple fact that there has never been a situation like this in the almost 60-year history of the record champions in the Bundesliga. Of course, Max Eberl has also played his part in the failure of the planned commitments in the last few weeks. Because if negotiations with two coaches were so specific that in the end there had to be correct and publicly communicated cancellations due to decisions for another option, everything simply cannot have gone smoothly on the part of Max Eberl and Christoph Freund. But that’s precisely why it’s all the more astonishing how relatively quiet things are at FC Bayern at the moment.
First time goal failed
A situation that Bayern officials are hopefully aware of and enjoying. Because if things go wrong in Madrid on Wednesday and no new coach has been presented for next season, Max Eberl will once again be able to experience a completely different strength of the media storm. It’s understandable that all Bayern officials wanted to avoid this hurricane. But with the signing of a new coach in April, nothing has happened.
One can only hope for Max Eberl and FC Bayern that either the team reaches the final at Wembley on Wednesday or that one of the doors that Eberl was talking about will open quickly – and that behind them will be a man who is everyone The wishes and hopes of the people of Munich combined in one person. Otherwise, you don’t have to be a prophet, it will become increasingly difficult for Max Eberl to moderate the difficult situation at FC Bayern as charmingly and confidently as in the past few weeks.