Lothar Matthäus is missing in the current sporting misery FC Bayern The Munich football competition in club management. The 62-year-old wrote in his Sky column that there are very successful people from the financial sector in the management team. “They are there, but I lack sporting skills with them. Which of them won championships as a player?” asked Matthäus. And furthermore: “There is no one there who brings with them the smell of the stable.”
If the team had played poorly during his playing days, Franz Beckenbauer, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge or Uli Hoeneß would have woken up the players. But who does that today? Matthew asked. He advocated involving former players such as Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Arjen Robben. “If I want, I will approach these strong personalities at Bayern and find a position for them,” said the 1990 world champion.
Matthäus: “The current situation is affecting everyone at the club”
In this sense, Matthäus warned against having too high expectations of Max Eberl, who will probably become Bayern's new sporting director from March. “With Max comes someone who is responsible for the sport in the Bundesliga He has already done an excellent job. He has a history in the club, but he alone is not a savior and he is not a face of Bayern either,” stated the television expert.
In Matthäus' opinion, Thomas Müller would be a suitable candidate. “A certain Thomas Müller is intelligent, eloquent and very sympathetic,” he explained his idea. He knows the 34-year-old wants to continue playing, “and I don't even want to put him in that situation,” but Bayern Munich has always lived off history.
Matthäus continued: “Something can also be seen in the dispute between Joshua Kimmich and assistant coach Zsolt Löw after the match: the current situation is affecting everyone at the club. Zsolt Löw was my player in the Hungarian national team. He is a calm, level-headed, intense and active coach who you really can't argue with. The more unrest there is in the atmosphere of a club, the more it affects the team's performance. I am convinced that many things happen in the head. If you have been successful for years and then go through a phase like this, you will only come out of it together as a team. We used to play badly, but there was still someone who woke us up, who the players listened to, who we admired.”