Declan Rice? Dusan Vlahovic? FC Bayern needs new players, but no longer has a sports director. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who has just returned, will now fill the gap – together with coach Thomas Tuchel.
Thomas Tuchel saw that the championship was suddenly approaching again, unexpectedly, a gift that you really can’t refuse. He felt the moment had come to forget everything he knew about football. Rarely has it mattered so much in which basic order his team played, it was now just a matter of scoring a goal. Tuchel would in this 85th minute of the game all in he would be the replacement for Jamal Musiala and Mathys Tel. However, there was one thing he knew about football that he couldn’t forget: there can only be eleven players in a team at a time, so he had to drop two players. He didn’t need full-back Mazraoui anymore, okay. But who else?