Now Uli Hoeneß is talking about the background to the separation of bavaria Board boss Oliver Kahn, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and ex-coach Julian Nagelsmann.
In the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the current member of the supervisory board revealed that no one was informed by Kahn and Salihamidzic that they wanted to fire Nagelsmann.
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Hoeneß when asked if he was involved in the decision to fire Nagelsmann: “No, nobody.”
Hoeneß continued: “Herbert Hainer, as chairman of the supervisory board, was also informed far too late. And that just doesn’t work. On the Wednesday before the final separation, Hasan stood at my door and said: ‘We want to do it, and actually we’ve already decided on it.’”
Hoeneß agreed with the bosses at the time that Nagelsmann had to be talked about. But, according to Hoeneß: “… I think the time ten days before the Dortmund game is wrong.”
What the ex-president generally criticizes about Oliver Kahn’s leadership style is his lack of communication. Hoeneß on Kahn’s tenure: “Oliver has called me maybe five times in the whole time.”
But ex-coach Nagelsmann doesn’t get off well with Hoeneß either: “I didn’t think it was good that Julian Nagelsmann went skiing at all in such a crisis situation after the 2-1 draw in Leverkusen (March 19, 2023, Matchday 25). That should not have happened.”
Added to this was Nagelsmann’s fresh relationship with a former BILD reporter. Hoeneß: “It’s a very personal issue and a private matter that has to be respected. But it is understandable that such a constellation is anything but optimal for a club.
Ex-Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann with his girlfriend Lena Wurzenberger
Nagelsmann had to go – on March 24, Bild.de headlined: Nagelsmann fired, Tuchel becomes Bayern coach! – and at the end of the season it was over for Kahn and Salihamidzic.
Finally, the supervisory board pulled the ripcord because of Kahn and Salihamidzic before the last Bundesliga game in Cologne. Hoeneß on the conversation when Hainer and he informed Kahn of his dismissal: “It got loud for a while. The news that he wasn’t going any further didn’t come out of the blue: we had repeatedly hinted to him that this possibility existed. After three quarters of an hour he rushed off.”
And Hoeneß reveals that the fans even traveled to him to talk to him about the club’s future: “They came to me at Tegernsee.” There he discussed with the Ultras: “Even the people from the ‘Schickeria’ said: ‘Please make sure that our FC Bayern runs straight again.'”
Hoeneß felt almost forced to act instead of leaving the reins of action to Kahn and Salihamidzic, as he reports to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “When I see how we are almost shown in the second half against Leipzig in our own stadium ( 1: 3 on the 33rd match day, ed.), I can’t let go! Maybe I’m just not allowed to go to the stadium anymore. But that wouldn’t be a solution either.”
Kahn got loud, how did Salihamidzic react to the news of his dismissal? Hoeneß: “I had already told Hasan how it could happen. It didn’t surprise him.”
On Matchday 34 the bombshell burst, Bayern announced that Kahn and Salihamidzic were gone – just minutes after surprisingly winning the championship 2-1 in Cologne (Dortmund only played 2-2 against Mainz).
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