Things are really not going well at Bayern Munich. Even the sporting balance sheet in these wet and cold spring days reads disastrous: Eliminated in the DFB Cup against SC Freiburg. In the Champions League after the 0:3 defeat at Manchester City with hardly any realistic hopes of progressing. And in the championship they may lead the table, but BVB from Dortmund proves to be a tough pursuer – and the fickle performances of the Munich star ensemble mean that winning the championship trophy again is by no means a sure-fire success.
But even more than the puzzling range of fluctuation in performance on the field, Bayern have contributed to a catastrophic public image in recent weeks with numerous side-war scenes.
Possible argument in the Bayern dressing room after the game against Manchester
The highlight of the unnecessary annoyances is now the rumored argument that is said to have taken place between Bayern professionals Leroy Sané and Sadio Mané in the dressing room after the defeat at Manchester City. There is talk of a slap on the lip that Mané is said to have missed his fellow striker.
In the meantime, the club has reacted and suspended Mané for the upcoming Bundesliga game against Hoffenheim. In addition, the Senegalese must pay a fine of an unknown amount. For comparison: When a similar incident occurred between Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben in 2012, the Frenchman was fined 50,000 euros.
But regardless of the rapid crackdown on Bayern officials, memories of the image of the former “FC Hollywood” have long been awake. And what should annoy CEO Oliver Kahn and sports director Hasan Salihamidzic the most: Sometimes it was the Bayern managers themselves who started the discussions off the field with their decisions, as an overview of the secondary war scenes at the German record champions shows.