For a long time, Oliver Kahn was preparing to take over the position of power at Bayern. This ‘initiation’ lasted for almost two years, since it became clear that Karl Heinz Rummenigge was stepping down from the position of CEO, but it seems that all this did not result in the right way.After Bayern were rather easily eliminated by Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the Champions League – and thus stuck on the same step in the elite competition for the second time in a row – the question of the responsibility of the Bayern bosses was raised in Germany for the first time.It started with a banner in the stands, hung before the start of last night’s games (“Kahn & Brazzo: heroes yesterday, losers today”), and continued this morning with the first rays of sunlight that fell on Munich. The always knowledgeable Jan Age Fjortoft initiated the ‘avalanche.'”According to my knowledge there is a process going on at the club and it is a matter of time before Oliver Kahn is replaced. The first candidate to succeed him is Philipp Lahm, but he currently has a job that he does not want to leave – he is the CEO of Euro 2024,” wrote Fjortoft.##NAJAVA_MECA_7190515##There is no doubt that it was stormy in Zebener Strasse this morning. Meetings were scheduled one after the other, reportedly the retired Uli Hoennes was also seen in the club, who is said to be still very influential, but there are no concrete and radical steps for now. President Herbert Heiner confirmed this, characterizing Fjortoft’s information as rumours.However, it is clear to everyone that the biggest crisis in the last ten years has hit Bayern and that it is very possible that Julian Nagelsmann will not be the only one to pay the price. Slowly, but very openly, the media is also turning against Kahn and Salihamidzic.Thus, Bild listed the key sins of the first man of the Bavarian giant in three points and in the text entitled “Kahn must answer for this”.1. Kahn failed to meet the wage demands of the most important defensive player David Alaba in the summer of 2021 and let him go to Real Madrid without compensation. And then he invested 120,000,000 euros in uncertainty – by hiring Upamecano and De Ligt.2. Kahn brought in Nagelsmann in 2021 for record compensation for a coach. Nagelsmann did not live up to expectations, and even managed to lose first place in the Bundesliga. The idea was to perform better under Tuchel. Hopes were quickly dashed. The unrest became even greater. Only two wins in six games, locker room incidents.3. Kahn sold Robert Lewandowski last year and entered the season without a world-class centre-forward. The consequences are clearly visible – the team’s top scorer is the teenager Musiala, the team is obviously struggling.Fans’ banner dedicated to Kahn and Salihamidzic at last night’s gameBild does not dispute that there were difficult discussions in the club rooms during the day, that is, that the conclusion of the Supervisory Board was something like this: Goals and objectives can be missed, but not the basic values of this club. As well as management policy.”The same should apply to Kahn as to Nagelsmann: he must be judged by his results. And since Nagelsmann has been fired, it must inevitably be concluded that Oliver Kahn’s position is very much in jeopardy. His contract expires on December 31, 2024, and no one in the following period will mention the extension of cooperation”, the same source states.In addition to the lack of sports results, there is something else to complain about – the lack of closeness and harmony among the employees. It is said that not much remains of the family atmosphere that prevailed under Hoennes and Rummenigge.At first, the Germans even wrote that Uli Hoennes could be activated again, but later in the afternoon that information was denied.A rumour is doing the rounds at Säbener Straße. Accordingly, Uli Hoeneß is said to be considering installing his son Florian as Oliver Kahn’s successor. Uli Hoeneß didn’t want to comment when asked if the rumour was true [@BILD] pic.twitter.com/7y5vgE8u7x— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) April 20, 2023 Interestingly, the media have spared Hasan Salihamidžić for now, although he is perhaps more directly responsible for activities on the market…Maybe it’s too early to judge Oliver Kahn for hiring Thomas Tuchel (and replacing Nagelsmann) – it will certainly be more appropriate to talk about it at the end of the season – but some facts are already guiding us towards forming a ‘final’ opinion.Nagelsmann had an 8/8 score in the Champions League. He successfully got out of the toughest group, defeating both Barcelona and Inter twice (conceding only two goals), and then kept a clean sheet against one of the biggest favorites of the competition – Paris Saint-Germain. He was fired after the third defeat of the season and going on vacation at an inconvenient moment.Thomas Tuchel took over the team twenty days ago and experienced three defeats, as many as Nagelsmann in eight months. The former Chelsea coach was eliminated from two competitions. In addition to the Champions League, he was also eliminated from the German Cup.And it is well known what and how much is valued in Munich. Hoennes once explained it:”In the long term, the domestic title has become too small of a goal for us. The season cannot be considered successful if we are not among the four best teams in Europe.”Mane and Sane don’t do the job for Bayern – maybe it’s time for KaneDo we need a better ‘scale’ to measure Tuchel’s performance so far?Also, not counting the first match against Dortmund in which the new coach did not experiment a lot – because he didn’t even have time, he only did one training session with the team before the Klassiker – Bayern didn’t manage to score more than one goal in any game under Tuchel’s guidance?! And one more thing: in those five meetings, no offensive player managed to score a goal, while the number of duels won fell below 50 percent?! This latter data is shocking, considering that the volitional moment (at least in the first few games) in each team usually increases with the change of coach.Those are the facts. And now a little about the impression…In the simplest terms, Tuchel slowed Bayern down, made them less dangerous in the final third, far less attractive, predictable…Bayern Munich since Thomas Tuchel took over:❌ Eliminated from the DFB Pokal by Freiburg❌ Eliminated from the UCL by Man City❌ One win in their last five matches all competitions pic.twitter.com/eOqMvtOaqx— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) April 19, 2023 Should we go back to Kahn’s segment explaining Nagelsman’s dismissal?Basically, he said that at Bayern it is not only victories that are important, but also how they are achieved. In translation, the young expert was criticized for the lack of attractiveness in the game.And if that’s the case, why did the choice fall on Thomas Tuchel?!But again – that ‘little detail’ is not Tuchel’s fault – everyone knows his philosophy very well – it’s the fault of the people from the administration.The conclusion: no matter how early it is to assess the success of the Bayern – Tuchel merger, it is hard to escape the impression that this did not go well. The same could be true of Kahn’s management.”The crisis is already rooted. The change of coach, it is now clear to everyone, was a mistake. Kahn and Salihamidžić hit the wall this season,” underlined the Bild columnist.
