After a disappointing 2023/24 season and only third place in the Bundesliga, FC Bayern needs to turn a few screws. A new coach and new players should rekindle the fire in the team and set course for the „Final Dahoam“ in Munich’s Allianz Arena. Former Bayern captain Michael Ballack is calling for fundamental changes.
After an eleven-year run as champions, Bayer 04 Leverkusen put a stop to Munich’s run. However, the fact that VfB Stuttgart slipped past them in the end can be seen as worrying from Bayern’s point of view. For Michael Ballack, the unsuccessful season is a clear sign that some things need to be changed. „After a season without a title, you have to get to grips with the team and make radical changes,“ he demanded in an interview with Sport BILD.
Ballack takes Bayern stars to task: „The construction site is the team“
The appointment of a new coach will be one of the changes that need to be made. However, Ballack is not of the opinion that Munich’s sporting downturn is down to Thomas Tuchel or Julian Nagelsmann. „Even the season before that didn’t go well for FC Bayern, it lost its dominance, and
Consequently, he sees the problem more in the Bayern stars themselves. „The construction site is the team,“ he emphasised. However, Ballack did not include Harry Kane in his criticism, whom he described as the „attraction of the league“ and „king transfer“. Although the Englishman remains without a title, as he did throughout his time at Tottenham, Ballack feels no sympathy. „Of course it’s not funny for him when he doesn’t win any titles and the public are amused by it. But he will win another title in his career,“ he says confidently. However, Kane also needs strong team-mates and a suitable coach.
Ballack takes a critical view of the coaching debate
The headlines are currently still dominated by the unsuccessful search for a coach, which has even led to bosses trying to persuade Tuchel to stay after all. Ballack has a mixed opinion of this back and forth. On the one hand, something like this „causes incomprehension among outsiders“, but on the other hand it also shows „a certain greatness of FC Bayern to jump over its own shadow and say: that was a mistake“.
