By Martin Volkmar
Demonstration of power in front of the cameras: Uli Hoeneß must have been aware of the impression made by his appearance at Bayern’s first training session after the bankruptcy in Mainz.
Namely the one you have had since the Champions League knockout against Manchester City in Munich at the latest: that the honorary president takes matters into his own hands again.
Hoeneß, at least that’s what it looked like, explained his view of things to coach Thomas Tuchel on the pitch and at the same time demonstratively strengthened his back after his false start.
FC Bayern: Does Kahn still have the say?
Actually Oliver Kahn’s job, but not only since Hoeneß’ training visit has the question arises as to whether and for how long the nominal CEO will still be in charge of the record champions.
After ran-After the latest developments, his prospects of being able to convince the Supervisory Board of his whereabouts at the meeting currently scheduled for May 22 are poor.
Accordingly, Hoeneß is said to be the driving force behind the discussion about Kahn’s early replacement.
Matthäus: “Hoeneß has been dissatisfied for many months”
“Several people have reported to me that Uli has been dissatisfied with the cast that he has installed in the executive floor for many months,” said “Sky” expert Lothar Matthäus recently.
However, Kahn, who still has a contract until 2024, wants to fight for his job as CEO and aggressively represent his point of view.
Among other things, according to “Sport Bild”, he will present a new record turnover of 835 million euros in the supervisory board meeting.
FC Bayern: Allegedly already talks with Hellmann
Apparently, the search for a successor has already begun.
How ran learned, a favorite emerged on the supervisory board: Axel Hellmann, currently spokesman of the board of league competitor Eintracht Frankfurt. According to “Sky” information, there should even have been talks.
Of course, there is no confirmation of this, because the 51-year-old has a contract with Hessen until 2027. However, Hellmann has reportedly been thinking about saying goodbye for a long time, partly because of a conflict with the boss of the supervisory board, Philipp Holzer.
So far, however, a change to the top of the German football league was expected, which he has been leading interimly as a double head since the separation from Donata Hopfen with Oliver Leki from Freiburg.
Watzke would like to have Hellmann at the head of the DFL
DFL boss and BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke wants to make Hellmann, who has been on the Frankfurt board of directors since 2012, the new full-time managing director of the league and thus install it there as a permanent solution.
According to his critics, he recently constructed a conflict at Eintracht in order to get out of his current contract prematurely.
Even before the discussion about Kahn’s future, the Bavarians had campaigned for Hellmann’s installation at the DFL because they had a high opinion of the business lawyer.