{"id":965644,"date":"2026-05-17T01:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:31:47","slug":"manuel-neuers-germany-return-a-slap-in-the-face-as-bayern-legend-criticises-julian-nagelsmann-decision-to-name-retired-goalkeeper-in-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965644\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Neuer&#8217;s Germany return &#8216;a slap in the face&#8217; as Bayern legend criticises Julian Nagelsmann decision to name retired goalkeeper in World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamann joined the chorus of disapproval, drawing a sharp distinction between Neuer\u2019s situation and previous high-profile returns like that of Toni Kroos. Hamann believes that rewarding a player who did not participate in the qualifying rounds sends the wrong message to the rest of the squad ahead of such a major tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn&#8217;t do it,\u201d Hamann explained. \u201cBaumann played the qualifying stage. That&#8217;s different from Toni Kroos, when there was no qualifying. But now, after the last day of the season, to say: Neuer is back, I don&#8217;t think is a good idea.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ballack told DAZN: \u201cThe signs are increasing that he will be there. If he&#8217;s there, he&#8217;ll be number one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamann joined the chorus of disapproval, drawing a sharp distinction between Neuer\u2019s situation and previous high-profile returns like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,250402,269640,1514],"class_list":["post-965644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-m-neuer","tag-o-baumann","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116587337217240705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}