When there is a crisis atmosphere on Säbener Strasse in Munich, and that is always the case when FC Bayern does not greet the top of the Bundesliga, then the bosses usually only think of one thing: the smell of a stable. That was the case when the adventurous dazzler Jürgen Klinsmann unsuccessfully coached the team and was replaced by the old master Jupp Heynckes. That was the case when the strict Louis van Gaal sat on the bench and replaced him, of course Jupp Heynckes. That was the case when coaching hope Niko Kovac had to leave and club veteran Hansi Flick followed him. Only after Julian Nagelsmann came Thomas Tuchel; someone with expertise, but without Mia-san-mia in his luggage.
Unfortunately, cups, championships and even Champions League victories do not guarantee success in Munich for other clubs. As Carlo Ancelotti felt (who was once replaced by, sigh, Jupp Heynckes). And although Tuchel’s team still has 13 match days to catch up with Bayer Leverkusen by a mere five points and now only has the conquerable Lazio Rome in front of them in the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday, we are already hearing about possible successors in the Munich area, of course also from someone with a stable smell: Hansi Flick.
A misunderstanding as a national coach, he once even trumped the club coaching legend Heynckes at Bayern: he won a whopping six titles with the Munich team a few years ago. And just as important: He was clearly a Mia from the “Mia san mia” structure and therefore the opposite of Thomas Tuchel. It’s not just in Munich that it becomes clear that the former world coach of the year always gets in his own way with his peculiarities.
And another typical circumstance could more or less soon cost Thomas Tuchel the coaching chair: lack of appreciation. He complained about this everywhere, for example in Dortmund, whereupon BVB boss Aki Watzke said that Tuchel was just a “difficult person”. A dispute that also had to do with the club’s personnel policy, about which Tuchel also regularly complained. Disagreements between him, the team and the club management are the rule, not the exception.
