Thomas Müller at a press conference. Matthieu Mirville / PANORAMIC
Two years after his video addressed to Parisians perceived as arrogant, Thomas Müller wanted to explain himself and give his version.
The story dates back to the spring of 2021. As Bayern Munich prepare to challenge Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, barely a year after the 2020 final won by the Germans (1-0) , Thomas Müller (33) split from a video posted on his social networks. He filmed himself there, smiling, happy to find the Parisians. His message, punctuated by a “Byewhich many perceived as arrogance had drawn some criticism. Unfounded when you know that the Bayern player is a very quiet man and always far from controversy.
Asked yesterday about this, the man with ten World Cup goals with his selection, wanted to clarify the situation at the microphone of Canal +: “I understand, thanks to my French teammates, that people in France took my “goodbye” as “goodbye, you’re out”. But my level of French is not good. I just wanted to say «Goodbye» on camera, as we do at the end of the video and the interpretation was different. But I have no problem with that. I’m always happy to face PSG and to play against France. I like the French. Maybe they don’t like me much since then” he said with a smile.
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Focused on the decisive match to come (Bayern’s 1-0 victory at the Parc des Princes), he then announced “I will do everything to win tomorrow. I don’t ask that they like me, just that they understand that I didn’t mean to laugh“. The subject is closed.
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