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FC Bayern reacts to rangnick rumors
FC Bayern reacts to rangnick rumors
03/28/2025, 11:17 a.m.
What’s next for Ralf Rangnick? In Austria, the national coach gets plenty of headwind. A possible end does not seem to be excluded. Just as little as a “Bayern-hammer”, the record champion should think about the personnel.
The scraps fly in Austrian football. The beautiful times that the national team and coach Ralf Rangnick experienced last summer are forgotten at the European Championship in Germany. The wind has turned with force and now blows the boss coach in the face. So he heard from Interim President Wolfgang Bartosch that he “takes unpredictable steps”. In his words, there were also doubts about the teamwork of Rangnick.
Does what a great love story ended as a dirty spouse? You don’t know. But what you hear: With the Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern, two potential new partners for Rangnick are on the lurk. BVB should therefore contact the trainer in January. In concrete terms, however, nothing became of the conversations. From the Rangnick camp it was said that it was never a commitment, but about the player market. You don’t know how specifically things are in Munich. As the magazine “Profile” reports, it should apparently be a job as a “mastermind”. The “picture” becomes more detailed: The role should correspond to the model of Jürgen Klopp in the Red Bull empire.
A candidate at BVB for two positions?
“He has already done a lot in football and a lot of passion for this and various positions. I think he is very happy in Austria, also with the team,” said Bayern sports director Christoph Freund. The sporting management area at FC Bayern is mainly staffed by sports director Max Eberl and sports director. In the meantime, he does not know whether the name at FC Bayern or Borussia Dortmund. According to “Sport Bild”, Rangnick at Borussia Dortmund should be in discussion for the summer, possibly for the post of the sports director. The 66-year-old was speculated as a coaching option before the commitment of BVB coach Niko Kovac.
In Munich in particular, honorary president Uli Hoeneß should be able to inspire a possible ranking engagement. Rangnick’s tasks could include the further development of the young area and the scouting department. In Munich, they have long been impressed by the ideas to prominently integrated the football professor. Already in search of a successor for Thomas Tuchel, Rangnick was prominently prominent in the race. But then he had canceled and decided to stay in Austria.
“The sporting success concealed a lot”
But there, however, the mood is apparently finally turned over, as the media say. According to an insider, they wanted to get rid of rangnick. Interim President Bartosch apparently sees it differently despite his critical words: “Rangnick is out of the question,” he said in the ORF interview. “We want to qualify for the World Cup and should all pull together. The fact that there can be disagreements is in the nature of the matter.” Before that, he had told “profile”: “Rangnick is very difficult. I try to maintain contact, but he always takes his own, unpredictable steps.”
Lower Austria’s head of Lower Austria, Johann Gartner, let it really clatter: “Viewed soberly, we are not more with Rangnick than under Foda (Ex-coach Franco, note the editor). Its playing style can be calculated. I lack the gates and the results. I expect new ideas from the team manager. The sporting success has concealed a lot. But the mood turned. “
