2023-05-09 06:25:28
I’ll lean out the window. And say: Thomas Müller’s time as a regular player and great leader at FC Bayern is over!
And at the same time I would be happy if I was wrong. Because there are heroes you don’t want to see falter. The World Champion. The fan favourite. The man who, as one of the last, embodies the normal in the brutal professional business. The down to earth.
But you only have to look closely and, above all, listen carefully to feel that the twilight of the gods has long since set in.
Coach Tuchel no longer puts up Thomas Müller. In both games once morest Manchester City, in the 2-0 win once morest Hertha and also in the 2-1 draw in Bremen, Müller only came off the bench. First it was said: “This is not a Thomas Müller game today.” Then the back allegedly pinched. In any case, the regular place is gone.
In a messed-up season, Bayern somehow stagger towards the minimum goal of the championship. So that this doesn’t go wrong too, the big problems are pushed aside for the time being and should only be solved following the last matchday. One of them is obviously called Müller.
Tuchel says: “I love Thomas Müller.” But that doesn’t mean anything. After the 0:3 smack once morest City, he also said: “I’m in love with this team.” That settled down very quickly.
Much more important is what Tuchel says in the next sentence: “But Thomas was also there, it’s getting close now.” Means: The fact that Bayern has to tremble for the title for the first time in ten years, Müller also has his share.
Bayern coaches who don’t let the 121-time international play regularly don’t stay long. Just ask Ancelotti. Especially Kovac. But maybe Julian Nagelsmann too. When Salihamidzic claimed that there was something wrong between the team and the coach, Kimmich and Goretzka publicly contradicted. Müller, who usually likes to talk, kept a low profile.
Of course, Tuchel knows that. And the questions regarding Thomas Müller are already annoying him. He understands that, “I have a little less understanding for a hundred questions on the day of the game.”
What to do? A man who has won eleven German championships for Bayern and has already played for the club at the age of ten is not simply dismissed. There will certainly be some kind of policy discussion. And only if Müller accepts his role, that he will probably only come off the bench for the most part in his last year of contract, Bayern won’t start the new season with a huge problem once more.
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