2023-05-31 17:49:46
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge primarily wants to be an adviser when he returns to Bayern as a member of the supervisory board. The longtime boss urgently urges calm in the club. The football team needs a hierarchy again.
The 67-year-old was appointed to the now nine-member supervisory board around Honorary President Uli Hoeneß after the great leadership tremor with the replacement of CEO Oliver Kahn and sports director Hasan Salihamidzic on Tuesday. “What I will not do is intervene operationally,” said Rummenigge in an interview with the German Press Agency.
“I need it”
Rummenigge complied with a request from President Herbert Hainer and his longtime companion Hoeneß for support in the current situation of the German soccer champion. “Now I feel the need to support the club where I have spent 40 years of my life as a player, vice president and chairman of the board,” said Rummenigge.
He hopes that after the appointment of Jan-Christian Dreesen as Kahn’s successor, the supervisory board will be able to “quickly present a solution” in the search for a new sports director or sports director.
Functional team instead of stars
After the turbulence of the past few months, it is important “that calm returns to the club quickly”. FC Bayern has always been successful as a “unit”. From his point of view, it is important in the sporting area “that we create a hierarchy in the team again”, one like when we won the Champions League in 2020.
“You don’t always have to blow hundreds of millions of euros into the transfer market. Rather, it has to be a functional team,” said Rummenigge on calls for new, expensive stars.
However, the former world-class attacker sees a need for a new center forward of international stature: “The number ninth will definitely be a position that FC Bayern will be looking at.”
Nevertheless, you don’t always have to “just reach for the top shelf” with newcomers. And one shouldn’t forget that Robert Lewandowski, who switched to FC Barcelona a year ago, was “the world footballer in this position” in the team.
“Consider Jan-Christian qualified for one hundred percent”
Rummenigge is also convinced that Jan-Christian Dreesen will become a successful CEO at Bayern Munich as the successor to Oliver Kahn. “I think Jan-Christian is one hundred percent qualified. And I also think he’s absolutely the right man to get the big ship Bayern Munich back on track,” said Rummenigge. The 55-year-old Dreesen had successfully led the record champions as CFO through the Corona crisis, among other things.
Rummenigge “didn’t say anything negative” about Kahn (53), who had replaced him two years ago as CEO and now had to leave early. He has felt “great gratitude” towards the former international goalkeeper since 2001. Back then, Kahn saved three penalties in a shoot-out and was the decisive player in FC Bayern’s first Champions League triumph in the final against FC Valencia. “We wouldn’t have won without Oliver Kahn. That’s why we’re all grateful to him and always will be.”
Dreesen is now at the top of the club “for a paradigm shift,” said Rummenigge: “The club has been managed or led by former players for decades, Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeneß, myself. Jan-Christian is originally a financial expert, was previously on the bank board.” (dpa)
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