Opinion
Bavaria in crisis
Thomas Tuchel, the difficult one – a blessing for the Bundesliga
Thomas Tuchel doesn’t have much to be happy about at Bayern right now
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The Bundesliga season is still long, but it’s finally exciting again. This is due to the extremely strong Leverkusen team, as well as the stumbling FC Bayern Munich. There, coach Thomas Tuchel stands in his own way – much to the delight of all football fans.
Thomas Tuchel already on the verge of elimination?
Now, ten months later, things don’t look much better for Tuchel and his ambitious record champions: out of the DFB Cup, behind before the second leg of the Champions League round of 16, in the championship: eight points behind the enviably confident factory club from Leverkusen. The 2021 world coach is already facing his exit again.
The crisis at FC Bayern Munich is entering its next week, and the reporting about it has taken on the sound as if the welfare and woe of the German fatherland depends on the club’s sporting success – although many football fans, if not the vast majority, are probably the joy of the series winner’s tumbling outweighs the joy.
The Bundesliga is finally getting exciting again
Because finally, after all the years in which the Bundesliga championship only boiled down to the question of when exactly FC Bayern will be champions – perhaps as early as mid-March or as late as April – a competition is returning that also deserves its name.
Yes, of course: the trophy hasn’t been awarded yet, Bayer can still remain runners-up and Bayern can still win the Champions League. But since the club’s former giants such as Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge withdrew, the club has slowly but surely shrunk to normal levels – despite record transfer spending of almost 190 million euros this season.
Blessings for all football fans
Coach Tuchel, the difficult one, does not have a super top team at his disposal, but rather an injury-prone ensemble of poorly motivated individual experts. Bayern are not the first team that he leads into a sporting dead end despite huge potential. It’s stupid for the club, but a blessing for the supposedly broken Bundesliga and the fans.