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“Annoy me insanely”: Hoeneß about statements about Müller
04/14/2025 – 00:04 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The honorary president of the German record champion talks about the farewell of Thomas Müller – and admits his own mistakes. A detail is particularly surprising.
Uli Hoeneß expressed public regret for his own statements about the future of Thomas Müller – and also revealed at what time he already knew about the attacker at Bayern.
The 73-year-old said on Sunday evening in the program “Blickpunkt Sport” in the BR: “I am incredibly annoyed that I said that because I actually wanted to build a bridge to Thomas.” Because: “At the time I already knew that his contract would not be extended.” So Hoeneß was already informed about the upcoming farewell to the crowd favorite at the end of February.
Background: At the premiere of a documentary to the veteran of FC Bayern at the end of February, the honorary president said: “A Thomas Müller who is constantly sitting on the bench can not be a solution”-and thus suggested the end of the career to the 35-year-old. Even more: Müller is “suitable to do every job with a certain start -up time at Bayern.”
Interesting now on the new Hoeneß statements: Bayern sports director Max Eberl recently explained in the “Doppelpass” at Sport1 that Müller from Bayern club tour had only been informed of the decision in mid-March.
Hoeneß now clearly: “We made mistakes that the Thomas has given Thomas the feeling that you may extend the contract.” Even more: “When the conversations that the sporting management had held with him were conducted, the decision was actually made that the contract was not extended.” This fact caused unrest. “Thomas was not prepared for this and was of course angry.”
Overall, the decision was “poorly communicated. You have to dress the shoe.” However, Hoeneß would also have liked “if (Müller, editor’s note) had made the decision and not FC Bayern.” Already at the farewells of Franz Beckenbauer or Gerd Müller it “crashed in the end because they just didn’t want to see that they are no longer as good as they would like it to be.”
