Uli Hoeneß on Thomas Tuchel’s lack of interest to develop young players: “I don’t blame him. He has a different attitude. He doesn’t think he can improve Davies, Aleksandar Pavlović or Musiala. If it doesn’t work, you buy someone else. I think you should work hard on them and give them confidence.”

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1. While we can all agree that the club really intends to build young players up — they’ve said this repeatedly over the years — I think there has been a conflict in the strategy. Maybe going forward this will change.

   Young players got fewer opportunities and shone less brightly during Nagelsmann’s tenure — Gravenberch didn’t play, Musiala was inconsistent, no youngsters from the academy broke in, Tel barely featured — so I wonder what Uncle Uli’s excuse was for Nagelsmann inasmuch as he sanctioned for Nagelsmann’s return?

2. Da fuck is he on about

3. If Uli wanted to undermine Tuchel for not keeping him at the end of the season, please did it better. Moose and Pavlovic had no problems under Tuchel, Davies had been the same for 2, 3 years regardless of coaches. Also, pushing agenda like this near the UCL semi final game is kind of a dick move for both the team and the coach, while the club is struggling to find the next manager. Managers will think: “Oh, so if I don’t do right or have conflict with the board, they can just freely have an interview and talk shit about me now”. No protection whatsoever.

4. Maybe Uli should stay at lake Tegernsee and let the guys in charge do their work and shut up on any topic in public. It just makes the work for the executives harder with every word he says to journalists.

5. Uli and Beckenbauer are why decent people like me could never be Bayern fans.

6. Musiala is a regular starter and Tuchel has made Pavlovic a thing in the first place.

   Davies is simply mad overrated. Riding the coattails from one good half season during the pandemic. Hes fast, but his game has so many deficiencies. Ive said it a year ago, if someone bids 70m for the guy Bayen should jump on that and never look back

7. While I certainly do t agree with the timing of this piece and making it public in the first place, I kinda agree.

   – Musiala is a starter, yes, but I haven’t seen much development from him, still got the same problems with his decision-making and isn’t particularly more stable/consistent

   – Stanisic was basically never used last season under Tuchl and for this season, Tuchel was fine with loaning him out

   – Tel hasn’t started enough games, for how good he looked. ALL of us were (and are) constantly berating TT for not starting him

   – Zaragoza has effectively been side-lined, reportedly for his language problems, and subsequently looks to have lost all his confidence

   – Davies is probably more about his mind and wanting to leave, than about Tuchel.

8. Wrong. We developed Müller and Kroos. Kimmich became a star here as well