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Bavaria-Trainer Thomas Tuchel (50) had on Saturday evening after the 4-0 win Dortmund The conversation with Sky presenter Sebastian Hellmann and expert Lothar Matthäus (62) ended prematurely.
The reason: the recurring criticism of the last few days and weeks from Matthäus and Didi Hamann (50). To which Tuchel reacted with a lot of sarcasm before and after the BVB game.
When moderator Hellmann addresses Matthäus’ criticism again at the end of the interview and he wants to comment on it himself, Tuchel takes off the microphone, leaves the table and leaves with Bayern press spokesman Dieter Nickles.
Now Bayern President Herbert Hainer (69) defends Tuchel’s reaction!
Herbert Hainer has been Bayern President since November 2019
Hainer on “Magenta Sport” during the Bayern women’s game against Wolfsburg (2-1) about Tuchel and his argument with the Sky experts: “Everyone can express their opinion and criticize. Sometimes you had the impression that everything was in ruins and that we were playing against relegation. We haven’t lost a game yet and have won every game in the Champions League.”
And further: “Yes, we were eliminated from the cup. Not good, but that can happen. I think it’s good that Thomas has now put up a stop sign. I like that he is so defensive. He has enough pressure like all of us at Bayern.”
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These Hainer statements explicitly refer to Tuchel’s reaction to the media scolding before and after the Dortmund game. When it came to transfer questions, Tuchel had sometimes been in too much of a chatting mood for the Bayern bosses.
Honorary President Uli Hoeneß described Tuchel’s statements about the club’s transfer policy in the summer as “unwise”. Tuchel had previously called the Bayern squad “thin”.
Hoeneß on the justification for his attack within his own ranks: “Because I don’t make my own team look bad by saying that we are too thinly staffed, we are this, we are that.” Hoeneß explicitly contradicted Tuchel in his squad Analysis: “If you see every weekend what we have on the bench – only national players – then we don’t have a thin squad.”
Hainer also talks about 100 million striker Harry Kane (30), who scored three times in the 4-0 win in Dortmund and has a total of 15 Bundesliga goals in ten games: “We all hoped that he would help us and it was our clear priority to get a new number 9. Harry Kane is one of the best in the world. He has proven that for many years. The fact that it has such an impact is of course special.”