Bundesliga
Nagelsmann advisor Struth criticizes FC Bayern
Advisor Volker Struth has criticized the way Nagelsmann separated at Bayern. photo
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Julian Nagelsmann’s advisor, Volker Struth, has criticized the record German champions FC Bayern Munich for the way they parted with the 35-year-old coach.
Julian Nagelsmann’s advisor, Volker Struth, has criticized the record German champions FC Bayern Munich for the way they parted with the 35-year-old coach.
“I’ve never met the “how” like this before,” said Struth in the “Phrasen Mäher” podcast of the “Bild” newspaper. The course of the separation from Nagelsmann at the end of March caused a lot of discussion.
The 57-year-old Struth reported that he had just been in a Cologne restaurant and was drinking wine when a journalist called him and said: “But that went quickly with Julian”. The native of Cologne added: “I didn’t know what he wanted from me.”
Decision “still wrong”
Nagelsmann was then contacted. “Julian didn’t know anything either and said along the lines of: Do you want to tease me,” said Stuth. The advisor was particularly annoyed that he only found out about the exemption from the club “24 hours later”.
Bayern parted ways with Nagelsmann after a 1-2 draw at Bayer Leverkusen. Struth wouldn’t have bet his fortune “that nothing would happen.” But he still thinks the decision is “wrong” because Nagelsmann is a “very, very good coach”. “I think he’ll prove that in the next 15, 20 years, when he starts again somewhere.”