Eleven months after arriving at the Allianz Arena, Thomas Tuchel already has an expiration date at Bayern Munich. It will be at the end of the season when the German coach, who arrived to replace Julian Nagelsmann, says goodbye to the biggest team in Germany. In this time, Tuchel has not achieved a defined style of play or results up to what was desired. Distrust of the management has increased in recent weeks until three consecutive defeats in seven days have forced them to make a decision. Tuchel will leave the club a season earlier than he had signed in the contract.
The Bavarian club announced yesterday that the separation is by mutual agreement, but it is clear that Bayern wants to end the relationship. The absence of a guaranteed replacement (Xabi Alonso, Flick and Zidane are the favorites for the position) means that they have chosen to keep him until June.
“You’re not as good as I thought, I’ll have to adapt to your level,” he said of his players after losing to Lazio in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, which opened the door to bat a conflict with the dressing room that the German media already predicted. Days before, Bayer Leverkusen coached by Xabi Alonso had inflicted a severe penalty (3-0). The defeat left them eight points off the lead. Finally, at the weekend, Bayern conceded their third consecutive defeat at home to modest Bochum (3-2), where captain Joshua Kimmich was about to come to blows with Tuchel’s assistants. It was then that the board stepped in to try and prevent this free fall from continuing. The ad wants to decompress a dressing room with a rarefied atmosphere.
Despite the fact that after his arrival he was able to conquer the Bundesliga, the product of the defeat of Borussia Dortmund, this season he struggled from the start. First he lost the Super Cup against Leipzig. He was then eliminated from the German Cup against a third. In the Bundesliga it has been clearly inferior to Bayer and only in the Champions League has it shown its face, but the classification for the quarters is in doubt.
As already happened with PSG and Chelsea, Tuchel leaves early and through the back door of another European giant. Its prestige is increasingly being discussed, even though its record includes the 2021 Champions League, won by the London team.
