Radio Müller has spoken!
Barring some miracle, Thomas Müller has played his final Champions League match. Müller will finish third in appearances (163), sixth in goals (57), and sixth in assists (30). Müller had hoped to finish his Champions League career by hoisting the trophy at the Allianz Arena. Instead, Müller played the full 90 minutes in Bayern Munich’s 2-2 draw against Inter Milan that ultimately saw the German giants eliminated in the quarterfinal stage.
Sport Bild dropped an interesting tidbit regarding Müller’s behavior immediately following the match (via @iMiaSanMia).
In the dressing room after the Inter second leg, which was his last Champions League game for Bayern, Thomas Müller made a symbolic ‘passing of the baton’. Müller deliberately took Aleksandar Pavlović and Josip Stanišić next to him, both homegrown players like himself, and told them: ‘You have to keep going. Things go on. You can still win many titles here. Now is your time.’
It is peculiar that Müller singled out the younger guys like Pavlović and Stanišić, rather than the locker room leaders like Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka. On the other hand, if Müller followed the script it wouldn’t really be his style either.
Servus, Thomas!
