Lucien Favre has shown in the Bundesliga that he is capable of great things, which is why he almost ended up at FC Bayern, as he explained in an interview
Lucien Favre has been on the sidelines as a coach in the Bundesliga for 307 games. He won 152 of them, giving him an overall points average of 1.7. As Borussia Dortmund coach, he also won the Super Cup in the 2019/20 season after finishing runner-up in the previous season
However, it was not this season that he attracted attention at FC Bayern. Years earlier, he had saved the Borussia Mönchengladbach team from relegation to Bundesliga 2 by the skin of their teeth and led them to the Champions League the following season
The result: „A delegation from Bayern Munich“ visited him in Düsseldorf in 2012, but shortly afterwards he extended his contract with the colts until 2015. At the time, he was still working with the current Bayern sports director Max Eberl on the Lower Rhine. Today, Favre, whose last stop was at OGC Nice, has ended his career
Did Favre have a Bayern clause?
Despite the contract extension at Borussia, Mönchengladbach did not breathe a complete sigh of relief. The Bayern rumours persisted, and not without reason, because as BILD reported at the time, Favre is said to have had a Bayern clause in his contract
Eberl, who had helped negotiate the contract at the time, did not want to answer the related question clearly at the time. „Above all, we are happy that Lucien will remain our coach. But I will not comment on the internal contents of the contract,“ explained the now 50-year-old. Favre himself was also evasive in this regard: „There are several things in every contract. I have to score points next season, that’s clear.“
He could have been the successor to Jupp Heynckes in Munich, but instead Pep Guardiola came to the Isar, a man who impressively won three championships in a row with Bayern. In the end, it was not a mistake for the Bayern bosses not to sign the Swiss.
