Burned money from FC Bayern? Hasan Salihamidzic defends himself and admits mistakes

“I don’t want to know …”
Burned money from FC Bayern? Hasan Salihamidzic explains himself

02.04.2025, 6:39 a.m.

FC Bayern wants to and must save. Many ex-sports director Hasan Salihamidžić chalide that the player budget is so high. He defends himself – and reports on a conciliatory conversation with Uli Hoeneß.

Ex-sports director Hasan Salihamidžić said he has spoken out with club legend Uli Hoeneß and also defended his decisions as a functional of FC Bayern Munich. “I am at peace with FC Bayern. It took me time to sort everything that happened,” said the 48-year-old of the “Sport Bild”. In November he drove too Hoeneß to Lake Tegernsee – and after a round sheep head “Uli and I stayed in pairs, and we spoke out”.

Salihamidžić and CEO Oliver Kahn were released from their tasks two years ago shortly before the end of the season. On the last match day, FC Bayern still secured the German championship. In contrast to Kahn, Salihamidžić was also on site in this game in Cologne. Salihamidžić reported regularly with the former CEO.

Ex-sports director finds criticism of squad costs unfair

Salihamidžić also expressed criticism that he had to be responsible for the astronomically high salary costs of the current Bayern squad due to excessive contracts at the time. “You always have to see this in connection with the time when the individual contracts were concluded,” he said. As a Champions League winner, it was the task to keep the best players in the team.

“Even if it was a lot of money in the end, the players were in the best football age – whether Kingsley Coman, Leon Goretzka, Serge Gnabry, they all had offers from top European clubs. I don’t want to know what would have been going on if we had to have one of them leaked off,” said Salihamidžić. “The truth also includes that in the transfers summer 2022 we first took more than 100 million euros in the history of FC Bayern.” Nevertheless, he admitted: “Of course we also made mistakes, as was the case before us and will be the case in the future.”