The German club decided to sack Nagelsmann despite eliminating PSG from the Champions League.
Bayern Munich sacked coach Julian Nagelsmann despite the team winning all eight of its Champions League games, scoring 22 goals and conceding two, and eliminating Messi and Mbappé's Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 series two weeks ago with a resounding 3-0 aggregate win.
What happened? The coach complained because information was leaking inside the dressing room and he did not feel supported by the management. In the last game, the Bavarian team had lost 2-1 to Piero Hincapie's Bayer Leverkusen. They had fallen one point behind Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, but that was not the decisive factor.
The background to the decision
"It is always important for me to be able to look at myself in the mirror at night, that I have treated my players and my fellow coaches well. This person won't be able to look in the mirror, because it's just not right. It wasn't specific training work that was published, it was the game plan against Bochum," Nagelsmann, 35, had said after the publication of information he felt should not have been aired.
Former Bayern manager Hasan Salihamidzic had said after the loss to Leverkusen: "This is not what Bayern Munich stands for. We lost everything, we let ourselves be overwhelmed by a team that had just come from playing on Thursday. I've rarely experienced so little drive, so little mentality, so little assertiveness."
Nagelsmann's departure also comes as a surprise because in mid-2021 the club had decided to pay RB Leipzig 25 million euros to terminate his contract with the club until 2025. The replacement has already been decided: although it is not official, the press has already reported that Thomas Tuchel, also German, who was sacked from Chelsea, will take Nagelsmann's place,
Nagelsmann had been at the center of a controversy when it became known that he had started a sentimental relationship with a journalist of Bild, a very important media in Germany. Immediately after images of his relationship with Lena Wurzenberger were published, the woman was removed from Bayern's coverage. But this episode complicated the DT's employment situation.
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