Former FCB coach Ottmar Hitzfeld comments on the debate about Alexander Nübel’s future in Munich and praises Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann. Thomas Helmer looks back on his unwanted Bayern move. The news and rumors about FC Bayern Munich.
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FC Bayern, News: Hitzfeld talks about Manuel Neuer
The former Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has spoken out on the discussion about FCB goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and his competitor Alexander Nübel, who is currently on loan to AS Monaco.
“Manuel Neuer will play for a very long time. There is no end in sight for him,” said Hitzfeld in the Sport1-Podcast “Meine Bayern-Woche”: “He is in top shape and well trained, and has an incredible amount of experience. His goalkeeping game is excellent and his reflexes are also good.”
Looking at Nübel, the 72-year-old made it clear: “If you’re the goalkeeper behind Neuer, you know that you won’t get to play.”
Hitzfeld knows the problem with an ambitious number one goal from his time with the German record champions himself: “I also had the problem with Oliver Kahn,” says the ex-coach: “I wanted to leave him outside and let Bernd Dreher play. Once I did that too. Then Oliver went out of the dressing room and slammed the door. But it’s also clear, because everyone wants to set records. It speaks for Neuer that he always wants to play. “
Hitzfeld had coached Bayern from 1998 to 2004 and again from 2007 to 2008, winning five German championships and the 2001 Champions League.
FCB, News: Thomas Helmer didn’t want to go to Munich
In 1992, Thomas Helmer, now a moderator, changed Sport1-Double pass, from Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich – apparently not entirely voluntary, as he is now at Sport1 revealed: “Many said yes, I really wanted to go to Bayern. That’s not true.”
Helmer continued: “We talked about how things should go from here,” he said of a visit from former BVB manager Michael Meier to his apartment at the time. “Afterwards my ex-wife said: ‘They don’t want you anymore.’ Then it actually started, “remembers Helmer.
The 56-year-old looks back: his wife “would never have left Dortmund because her family lived in Dortmund. It was always presented a little differently.”
After all, the defender stayed with FC Bayern until 1999. He played 244 competitive games in which he scored 31 goals and provided 17 assists.
FC Bayern, News: Hitzfeld praises Nagelsmann: “Can shape an era”
Ottmar Hitzfeld has praised today’s FCB coach Julian Nagelsmann in the highest tones. “The expectations at Bayern are still enormous, but I trust Julian Nagelsmann that he will win many titles and shape an era,” the 72-year-old told im Sport1-Podcast “My Bavaria Week”.
Nagelsmann made “a very good impression” on him, continued Hitzfeld: “He is technically top and has gained a lot of experience as a young trainer. He continues where Hansi Flick left off, because it was already outstanding under Hansi . “
FC Bayern: Tuchel apparently met Salihamidzic for over three hours
In February 2018, Thomas Tuchel allegedly met for over three hours with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic from FC Bayern in his house in Grünwald to sound out a possible coaching engagement in Munich.
