FC Hollywood never sleeps.
Details on the reported strain in relations that is developing in the Bayern Munich front office have supposedly emerged. Executive board member for sport Max Eberl is reportedly under pressure this summer to generate revenue through transfer sales and numerous names to potentially replace him are floating around the media.
From Tz, as captured by @iMiaSanMia:
Max Eberl has already drawn up a list of players to sell in the summer due to the need to cut costs and has even presented it internally in order to generate revenue in the upcoming transfer window. If that fails again, Eberl will be ‘on thin ice’ and his future will be uncertain. Ideas about how to replace a potential Eberl departure are already being considered in the background. One option is sporting director Christoph Freund. The Austrian maintains a particularly good relationship with CEO [Jan-Christian] Dreesen.
Mario Gomez’s name also comes up in this context. The former Bayern striker has already been considered as a possible Bayern CEO last year. However, Gomez feels extremely comfortable as the third most powerful man in Red Bull after Oliver Mintzlaff and Jürgen Klopp. Another name that is regularly discussed in Munich is Ralf Rangnick. However, Eberl still has time to prove he’s the right man for the job. His contract expires in summer 2027
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Honestly, what is Bayern even doing here.
Bayern had Freund — and brought Eberl in place above him because the club felt that was necessary. In little over a year Eberl has navigated a minefield of contract extensions with aplomb, securing the likes of Davies and Kimmich against odds and locking down the star of the future, Jamal Musiala, while he was at it. Where would Bayern’s outlook be if one or all of these players were instead on their way out?
In the summer transfer window Eberl brought in an expensive player, João Palhinha, that the club laid the groundwork for and reportedly felt obligated to come through on prior to his appointment. And he is still dealing with contract extensions handed out under a previous regime which are now judged to be extraneous.
What’s the point of having reports like this leak out to the media? Bayern could quash all of this yesterday — but the club doesn’t seem to mind having its board member for sport operating under this kind of public scrutiny. Maybe they don’t need the position at all. Or maybe the scrutiny should really land on the shoulders of those who keep firing people to execute a long-term vision and then tiring of them before they have a chance to get going.
Or maybe the board is right and there is no need to keep rowing in the same direction consistently for several years. Just one more firing, that will solve everything. Just one more.
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