After the clear victory in the Bundesliga’s top game, Max Eberl comments on the sensational reports – and speaks plainly.
Is Jan-Christian Dreesen about to quit as CEO of FC Bayern? The report caused a stir and was a topic of conversation on Saturday. Before Bayern’s top Bundesliga game against VfB Stuttgart on Sky, TV expert Lothar Matthäus already expressed an explosive assumption about the motives behind the news (you can read more about it here).
After the German record champions’ clear 4-0 victory, sports director Max Eberl has now also taken a stand – and it has become clear. “I can’t say anything about it,” Eberl explained in the mixed zone about the report, which states, among other things, that Dreesen insulted a Bayern employee three years ago and threw a newspaper at her. “That’s way, way back.” He doesn’t know anything about the truth of the statement; the whole matter “is of little interest to me or to us.”
And further: “Michael Diederich (Bayern CFO, editor’s note) and Jan-Christian Dreesen in particular work extremely trustingly and intensively together to win football games. That’s what our job is, it’s the order from the supervisory board and from the fans that we have and we want to implement it.”
Eberl, who only started at Bayern in March 2024, emphasized: “What happened in the past – I have no idea, I’m not interested either.” “It has always been the case at Bayern that there are influences from outside, and we as a club want to stand together as a wagon. We will go through this together.”
When asked whether the report had burdened the club, Eberl answered clearly: “No. In fact, we are responsible here for what happens on the pitch, that’s what matters. We try to ignore everything else. The team has that “It’s an excellent job, that’s what we do. We ignore what doesn’t concern us and concentrate on what our job is.”