Bayern: These are the "divas" of the championship | Football News

Jupp Heynckes spoke out of the box and said there were "divas" and "dear boys" at Bayern. Sky explains which players belong to which group.

It was a scene that was perceived as similar to the Allianz Arena, but it shows what Bayern looks like: Arjen Robben scored 2-0 5-1 against Lisbon, but Robert Lewandowski s & # 39; Is complaining. with the Dutchman because he probably thought that he would have resisted better. Thomas Müller intervened and made a clear gesture to Lewandowski with a gesture: the team is more important than individual interests.

Matthew: "accumulation of ego-AG"

Everyone thinks about himself, the collective, or the disappointed fans of Bavaria, "wrote Lothar Matthäus before the match in his column" So, I see that. "" Bayern players need to see what they are doing. a coach, "explains Matthäus The question is: do you do this with Niko Kovac? Jupp Heynckes proved that Matthew was able to train the team.

Ironically, Heynckes revealed before the game in Lisbon the details of his stay in Munich. "There are good guys and divas," said the 73-year-old West German newspaper"Niko Kovac does not only have it in Munich."

Ancelotti: Kovac has the same problems as me

It was the same with Carlo Ancelotti. His successor must "tackle the same problems that I have known," said the Italian on the eve of the first-clbad match of Naples against Red Star Belgrade. At the end of October, the star coach had stated during his stay in Bavaria that he had "only four or five players on his side at the end".

Kovac is supposed to behave the same way. "They were four against me," said the 47-year-old at the press conference after the Benfica match, "but they have not talked about those who are already on our side somewhere." Ribery's embrace was "pretty clear, there are many in the team".

Köhler: James "high in the divorces table"

Whether they are for or against the coach, who are the "dear boys" and who are the "divas" Heynckes talked about?

Köhler sees "James far in the divorces chart" of Bayern. The injured Colombian recently told Kovac that Bayern was not Eintracht Frankfurt. Sandro Wagner is also an extravagant guy, who gave an interview against Dusseldorf 3: 3, which could be interpreted between the lines as a criticism of the coach.

Hoffmann counts next to Lewandowski as well as Robben and Ribery to the divas. "The good guys are Niklas Süle, Serge Gnabry, David Alaba and Joshua Kimmich." However, Alaba and Kimmich have not repeatedly respected the tactical requirements of the coach, Köhler notes. As easy maintenance is also Javi Martinez.

Too little boss support

Although it is certainly beneficial to have idiosyncratic characters in the team, "because with 23 model students, you will not succeed, but with 23 solitary fighters not," says Hoffmann. It is important that coaches, sports director or president continue to intervene.

But that's where the problem lies with the Bavarians. Kovac receives too little support and can not afford to sit on the bench simply because of the current injury situation, as have other harbading players, at the same time. like other coaches from Bayern.

"Pep Guardiola replaced Toni Kroos once, Kroos threw the shirt – and what does Guardiola do?" Kroos spent two games on the bench, there was a silence in the box, "Köhler remembers the time spent with the Spanish coach.Heynckes also managed to cope with the whims of the stars.

"Changing Renato Sanches or Leon Goretzka is not that difficult," says Köhler, "Robben, Ribery and Alaba fear an uproar, the question is: does Kovac have support, and here we are with Uli Hoeneß."

"Bayern has always been a club of players"

Some players should rather confide in the president than go see their coach or their sports director if they have a problem. Hoeneß had counted the coach after the 3: 3 against Dusseldorf Saturday, but publicly, instead of giving him the support that he had announced a few weeks earlier, with the words that he would defend Kovac " to death".

Hoeness's approach may not be satisfactory for everyone, but Bayern has become one of the most successful clubs in Europe with exactly this pattern of bosses. Or as Uli Köhler puts it: "Bayern has always been a club of players".

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