Generally criticism wakes up gamers and coaches: Matthaus
Kolkata: Oliver Kahn was the mistaken appointment. Hasan Salihamidzic didn’t have the stature. They changed Julian Nagelsmann with Thomas Tuchel when it was not crucial. And Bayern Munich suffered.
Gamers, previous and current, have a tendency to stay to the straight and slender throughout media interactions. Until you might be Mo Salah eager to make your unhappiness public. Or, even at 63, Lothar Matthaus caring as a lot for conference as he did for Diego Maradona’s popularity within the 1986 World Cup last.
“I don’t wish to criticise coaches and gamers however typically it’s a must to do it, possibly to wake them up,” he stated in an interview to HT earlier than Saturday’s Bundesliga conflict between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich which can be telecast on Sony Sport 2.
Matthaus was explaining why he had spoken out in opposition to Nuri Sahin, the Dortmund supervisor. “He was being too good. He preferred to offer all gamers an opportunity and was at all times altering the primary 11. When a coach is new to a group, he has to search out his first 13 or 14 gamers. The remaining has to attend.”
That’s the Vincent Kompany or Nagelsmann method. “Kompany is (additionally) speaking with the captain the identical method he’s speaking with the youngest participant within the squad,” stated Matthaus. For Matthaus, it’s why Bayern are 10 factors forward of Dortmund. “That is, “mia san mia.” The Bayern Munich motto means, “we’re who we’re”, an amalgam of professionalism and caring that has made them champions of Europe six occasions and the perfect in Germany on a report 33 events.
Matthaus made it clear throughout the digital interplay organized by the official broadcasters in India and Bundesliga that nobody will get Bayern like Uli Hoeness and Karl Heinz Rummenigge. Each are again as supervisory board members and the “klima” is once more good, he stated.
It wasn’t when Kahn succeeded Rummenigge as CEO in 2021 and Salihamidzic was the sporting director. “Oliver was in my time the perfect goalkeeper on the planet. However he has a special mentality. He would come to the dressing room and never even say “good morning.” He would prepare like a professional, take his bathe and depart with out a goodbye… He was with us however no one noticed him. He was concentrating on the job,” stated Matthaus.
It was the identical when he was CEO, he stated. “That didn’t make for environment.” At Bayern, it’s essential work together with not simply the gamers however the “the secretaries, the cleansing woman, the bus driver, the man who cleans the boots. Small particulars make the distinction.” And although Salihamidzic performed 234 occasions for Bayern, Matthaus stated he didn’t “have the standing like Hoenesss or Ruminnegge.”
Matthaus stated he didn’t perceive why Nagelsmann was sacked and Tuchel appointed in March 2023. “Bayern have been nonetheless within the German Cup, within the Champions League and, probably, some extent behind Dortmund in Bundesliga. There was “klima” between him and the gamers…Tuchel would talk with one or two gamers and the remainder wouldn’t perceive why he’s not speaking with them.”
Matthaus stated Germany have moved “not one however 5 steps forward” underneath Nagelsmann in 2024. He additionally stated a purpose for the poor efficiency within the 2018 and 2022 World Cup was politics had disturbed focus. A participant ought to discuss politics however “not throughout a World Cup. In Russia and Qatar, they didn’t appear to know why they have been there.”
Tuchel can even succeed because the England coach. “I used to be not saying possibly good issues about Tuchel earlier however that is completely different. A membership job is a day by day job. Now, he has the gamers for 10 days each five-six weeks. And he decides which participant he calls. That is the proper job for Tuchel and I see England as one of many favourites for the following World Cup.”
Since his criticism, if not due to it, Sahin has modified issues at Dortmund. The group is settled and, regardless of an iffy season, they’re doing effectively at dwelling, stated Matthaus. So, a lot as he, a Bayern legend, would wish to present Dortmund that “crimson is best than yellow,” he is aware of it received’t be simple.
