Bayern also had its (extra-sporting) worries
If the leaders of Bayern did not appreciate Serge Gnabry’s Parisian escapade at Fashion Week on days left free by Nagelsmann on the weekend of January 21 and 22, they tasted even less the spectacular media load of Manuel Neuer.
Yet injured and unavailable on Tuesday at the Park, the goalkeeper and captain was talked about via two interviews in The Athletic and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Neuer criticizes the Bavarian club for the dismissal of the goalkeeper coach since his arrival in the summer of 2011, and close friend, Toni Tapalovic, “a blow when I was already on the ground”, “as if I had been ripped off the heart”.
Like CEO Oliver Kahn, sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic immediately stepped up, blaming Neuer for thinking about his interests before those of the club. The two men, however, calmed things down, to prepare for the first leg in Paris more calmly.
