“I have very little understanding for that. I find it absolutely baseless, but okay,” said Tuchel on Saturday on Sky before Munich’s league game once morest Eintracht Frankfurt. “It’s so far removed from reality that I wouldn’t have reacted to it at all if it hadn’t come from Uli Hoeneß.”
Hoeneß (72) was quoted from a panel discussion in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” as saying that Tuchel “has a different attitude. He doesn’t think that he can improve on (Alphonso) Davies, (Aleksandar) Pavlovic or (Jamal) Musiala . If it doesn’t work, you should buy another one.” Hoeneß, on the other hand, said “you should work hard on them and give them self-confidence.”
Criticism is “miles” away from reality
Tuchel, who has to leave Munich in the summer and may be replaced by the current ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick, reacted angrily to the criticism. This is “so far” from reality that he doesn’t even know how to answer it. Especially since Bayern face Real Madrid in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League next Tuesday. This gives the criticism “a bit of a different note,” said Tuchel.
Hoeneß’ words would touch on his “deepest understanding” as a coach, said Tuchel, and listed examples of the names of young players at the time from his stints at Mainz, Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea that he and his coaching team had supported. He was “a little bit” hurt in his “coaching honor”. “If we have proven something in the coaching team over the last 15 years,” said Tuchel, it is that “young players always have a place” in training and in games.
