“It was designed that way” – Goretzka reacts to alleged Bayern trouble
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After Bayern’s win against FC Barcelona, Leon Goretzka was annoyed by media reports that implied a dispute with Nagelsmann.
Ahead of the Champions League game Bavaria against Barcelona FC reported the IMAGEthat Leon Goretzka should have reacted with anger and incomprehension to his reservist role. Nagelsmann had made it clear early on that Marcel Sabitzer was next to Joshua Kimmich will start. After the final whistle, however, Goretzka shot vigorously against the media landscape. According to the player, there was no disagreement between him and Julian Nagelsmann and he accepted his role.
After 45 minutes Nagelsmann redeemed his protégé and replaced Leon Goretzka for Marcel Sabitzer. What followed was a decent performance, with which the 27-year-old should have come a little closer to a regular place. After all, this and nothing else is the claim of the German international.
After his long injury, the player accepted against the IMAGE-Reports that he is currently unable to start every game. The tabloid had reported at the start of the week that Goretzka was offended with demands for a regular place in the dressing room and with Coach Nagelsmann. However, the player refuted this after the Barca game and took on the media.
“I actually decided not to say anything about it, but I can’t help it. I don’t think that was okay during the week. A sentence I used was completely out of place,” Goretzka raged in an interview with Amazon Prime. “All these alleged problems in the dressing room are designed in such a way that I was really annoyed,” continued the midfielder. According to Goretzka, everyone “gets along great in the team” and everyone knows that “everyone will play from the start”.
Goretzka denies bad mood: “Have no problem at all”
The trigger for the theater was Goretzka’s sentence after the Inter game that he was now ready for the starting XI. This was seen by some media and in the environment as an affront to Nagelsmann and Sabitzer. In an interview with Amazon Prime However, he made it clear that he also accepted the Austrian’s performance and praised him for doing his job “superbly”.
In addition, everything is in balance with the coach. “We don’t have a problem at all. I don’t have a problem with the coach, nor with the fact that I didn’t start today. I was out for six weeks, then played 90 minutes. The fact that I don’t start two days later is that totally normal,” he explained.
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This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as “It was designed that way” – Goretzka reacts to alleged Bayern trouble released.