After CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen and club president Herbert Hainer, Bayern Munich’s sports director Christoph Freund also strengthened coach Thomas Tuchel in anger with TV critics.
“I think it’s good and right that Thomas made his opinion clear after this criticism went on for weeks,” Freund told the “Bild” newspaper. “FC Bayern has always defended itself when necessary. Thomas has done that now and we are behind him 100 percent.”
Around the 4-0 win at Borussia Dortmund, Tuchel vented his anger at the TV experts from the pay-TV channel Sky, Lothar Matthäus and Dietmar Hamann, and sometimes reacted extremely irritably on live TV. Matthäus and Hamann had previously expressed criticism of Tuchel and the team after Munich’s exit from the DFB Cup at third division team 1. FC Saarbrücken (1:2).
“You can tell when something is bothering you,” Freund said of Tuchel. “We’re playing a very good Bundesliga season, have scored 38 goals and only conceded seven, and we’ve won everything in the Champions League so far. We’re talking about FC Bayern’s best Bundesliga start in eight years. That speaks for itself. ” Dreesen had previously argued similarly and, like Hainer, assured the coach of full support.
