New details about the altercation between Joshua Kimmich and assistant coach Zsolt Lőw after the Bochum game – The Hungarian is actually the one member of the coaching staff with whom Kimmich has the best contact; the two exchange ideas regularly. But after the final whistle, Kimmich was very angry and shouted towards Lőw: ‘One of you has to explain that to me!’. After the substitution, Kimmich is said to have shouted from the bench: ‘How can you take me off?’. The coaching staff’s reasoning was not convincing for Kimmich: the plan was for Leon Goretzka to act as the sole defensive midfielder in front of the defense, with two more attacking players in front of him. On Monday, there was a conversation between Kimmich and Tuchel at Säbener Strasse about the incident. But the meeting failed to change the mood between the

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  1. Was pretty obvious that things are not going THAT well when Kimmich came out and said he can play the 6 after Tuchel was very direct about needing a 6 cause nobody fits the role in our squad

  2. He’s not a good defensive midfielder, but he is an elite creator. All his stats point towards that. He is wasted as a 6, but would be ideal in a Toni-Kroos type role, next to a real CDM destroyer. The thing is, it seems he only wants to be a 6 which complicates things for him and the rest of the team.

  3. I don’t really like Kimmich. The way he behaves…
    You know there is this kind of Van Bommel/Effenberg behavior that gives you massive goosebumps
    But Kimmich is just cringe tbh

  4. Kimmich always has been very ambitious. He is the type of guy who wants to win everything and wants everybody to give 110% all the time. Even if he made a mistake here, I understand he is frustated when it doesn’t work out like he wants to.

    I also think Kimmich should stay in case of a rebuild because we need players who are like him. He has the “bayern gene”.

    Pavlo is a very big guy with good defensive stats. Let him play as defensive 6 and Kimmich as a playmaker.

  5. normally i’d say that this could be a good opportunity to ask himself what’s going wrong atm and how he can improve. sadly i doubt he has the capability for self-reflection.

  6. >How can you take me off?

    brother, it would have been criminal to *not* take you off

  7. This is the guy that has been stinking up the field this entire Season so far. Demanding from the Coaching staff to field him even if he fucks up. Now you know why this season is so ridiculously bad.

  8. lol i really hope eberl cleans house. the amount of money we can make off dead weight and rebuild is going to be great.

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