Jan-Christian Dreesen acted as the successor to Oliver Kahn

Jan-Christian Dreesen is apparently a candidate to succeed Oliver Kahn as CEO of FC Bayern Munich. report that tz and Evening News consistent. Accordingly, this personnel had already been discussed internally in the past few weeks.

The future of Kahn, who has come under massive criticism, is to be decided at the upcoming Supervisory Board meeting on May 30th. Dreesen has been CFO of FC Bayern since 2013 and Deputy CEO since 2014.

Last September, however, the Munich team announced that the 55-year-old would leave the club after his contract expired at the end of June. “I had a fantastic ten years at Bayern,” he said at the time. “After long and careful consideration, I have now decided to redefine my personal goals after this extraordinary decade.”

Most recently, Dreesen was traded as a possible new DFL boss. Since Donata Hopfen left, Axel Hellmann from Eintracht Frankfurt and Oliver Leki from SC Freiburg have managed the league association on an interim basis. Before joining FC Bayern, Dreesen worked for Hypo Vereinsbank and Schweizer Bank UBS.

Dreesen is another name on the long list of people who have already been traded as possible successors to Kahn: Hellmann, Christian Seifert, Philipp Lahm and Oliver Mintzlaff are probably all unavailable. There was always speculation about a possible return of Kahn’s predecessor Karl-Heinz Rummenigge or the engagement of Uli Hoeneß’ son Florian.