The two former Bayern Munich players exchange pleasantries through the media regarding the circumstances of the recent dismissal of Julian Nagelsmann.
Two former giants of Bayern Munich, the current chairman of the club’s management board Oliver Kahn and the consultant for Sky Sports Lothar Matthäus engaged in a heated exchange this weekend over the dismissal of the coach Julian Nagelsmann.
«Lothar has established himself since the end of his career as the chief critic of German football. But if we criticize him, he does not accept it and indulges in baseless and absurd statements“, estimated Sunday Oliver Kahn on television Bild-TV.
«He’s like that Lothar, and that won’t change“Adds the former Bayern goalkeeper (1994-2008).
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The subject of the falling out between Kahn and Lothar Matthäus, who were long teammates in the 1990s at Bayern, concerns the circumstances of Julian Nagelsmann’s surprise dismissal from the post of Bayern coach, formalized on Friday 24 March, when rumors circulated in the press the night before.
Nagelsmann had been summoned on Friday by the management to inform him of the decision to separate from him.
«I just say what I hear, see and feel. The chronological sequence described by Kahn does not work“, Reproached Matthäus, emblematic player of Bayern from 1984 to 1988 then from 1992 to 2000 and consultant for the broadcaster Sky Sports, on Saturday before the Klassiker won by Bayern 4 to 2 against Borussia Dortmund.
«I know Oliver Kahn is lyingMatthäus then added at half-time to the t-online website.
On Sunday on Bild-TV, Kahn reaffirmed that he had told the truth, however calling it “catastrophedisclosing as early as Thursday, March 23 the information to part ways with Nagelsmann. “We regretted it, but we didn’t want to tell Julian on the phone. It would have been in bad taste», Kahn insists.
In the pre-match, the two men, powerful in German football, were strongly opposed, the Sky consultant accusing the current management of ignoring the values of the club and its slogan “Mia san Mia” (literally “we are us»).
«This allegation that we don’t respect the style of FC Bayern, on that I would be very very carefulKahn reacted in front of Matthäus.