Kicker: Bayern players appreciate Tuchel and Bayern’s board acknowledges Tuchel was correct about the problems he identified. “The construct inherited by Tuchel was extremely fragile”

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1. >Georg Holzner, Kicker: Regardless of who the new coach will be, the people in charge at Bayern have recognized that Thomas Tuchel was not fundamentally wrong in his assessment of the squad. The players who have been protected for years were confronted with reality. Tuchel ruthlessly addressed the club’s real problems and made them clear to the bosses. The club will certainly benefit from that in the long term after three years of mismanagement and personal vanities. Ultimately, many players appreciate Tuchel’s approach, as well as him as a coach, both professionally and for his directness. The majority of the squad is aware that missing out on the title this season is not a big surprise. The construct inherited by Tuchel was extremely fragile and could not be smoothed out within a year

2. Also sind die Bosse Tuchels Meinung und die Spieler sehen es angeblich auch ein? Dann hätte man ja keine Trennung gebraucht, sondern hätte Tuchel helfen müssen die Missstände zu korrigieren.

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4. Quite a load of bullshit. His notoriously poor man management and bad personnel decisions directly led to poor results and his dismissal. He was simply in way over his head with this job and it was obvious from his first string of games back in the previous season.

   *”The majority of the squad is aware that missing out on the title this season is not a big surprise.”*

   This takes the cake though. It is a MAJOR surprise, up until the game in Leverkusen Bayern were firm favorites to win the league title. Before round 1 in August I would say overwhelming favorite as betting odds shown.

5. Well, that is a positive. Many fans, that aren’t too high on their own kool-aid, have been pointing out many of the flaws for well over 1,5 years now.

   This is simply the year when a lot of things did not miraculously work out and the sand castle finally crumbled.

6. Tuchel was criticized for many things, but aside from the Bayern bosses hardly anyone disagreed with him on his judgement about what the squad is missing. His communication on that wasn’t really fitting, though.

   However, Tuchel also didn’t really help finding some good replacements. He is too focused on PL players which are valued way too high and his continuous complaining about a holding 6 let everyone raise the price tag even more. I’m fairly convinced that any central midfielder with some good passing ability would have benefited us greatly, but he was searching for a player that just wasn’t available in the market.

7. We need a lot of investment before next year. Especially with Xabi staying in Germany.

8. I mean, obviously there are some issues apart from the coach, but they still play worse than under „Nagelsmann without a 9“. He didn‘t solve ANY problem.

9. Tuchel also asked, begged, for a DM since he arrived last April. The summer DM move was a catastrophe. Then in the winter the club decided it didn’t want Paulinha because it had eyes for Zubimendi. Now the most recent reports are that he’s probably going to end up elsewhere which means we’ve wasted a year for nothing other than lack of planning. It’s crazy to think how much differently things could have been if we’d just given him what he wanted at the position.

   Pavlovic saved / prolonged a few people’s jobs imo. Now that we finally found a ball-progressing midfielder, we need a destroyer next to him. Goretzka is doing the job but Paulinha would have been perfect.