The serious injury to Alphonso Davies continues to heat the minds at Bayern. Even the otherwise prudent sports director talks in Rage.
Alphonso Davies’s cruciate ligament rupture is still high waves at Bayern. Because the team of doctors of the Canadian national team missed the diagnosis of serious injury, which only occurred after Davies’ return to Munich, Bavarians are now also facing legal consequences in the form of a lawsuit.
Board boss Jan-Christian Dreesen told the “Bild”: “We expressly reserve legal steps.” And sports director Christoph Freund again followed the Bavarian matchday press conference on the Bayern matchday press conference in the Causa Davies.
“It is not correct how this has gone. We just want to educate it without gaps. We want to know how it really went. He complained about fatigue before the second game. His commitment was borderline,” said Freund, who was almost talking about his circumstances on this explosive topic. So you have never experienced the Bayern boss in Munich.
“Then there is this injury and the Phonzy flies back with the plane for 12 hours. We assume that it was just a blow and it is not bad. Then something comes out,” the 47-year-old continued in a certain tone. The topic also rummaged the otherwise rather calm and prudent friend emotionally. “I think that’s just negligent. This is not professional. It doesn’t work. You have to talk about that, you have to educate that,” he said.
Freund continued to breathe his anger. Conversely, there are always allegations of the national associations towards Bavaria. Most recently, South Korea’s national coach Myung-Bo Hong made FC Bayern publicly responsible for the failure of defender Min-Jae Kim. “Munich failed to properly protect him in terms of injury prevention,” said Hong from the World Cup qualification game against Oman last Thursday. Kim plagues problems on the Achilles tendon, according to coach Vincent Kompany, FC Bayern expects a forced break lasting several weeks.
Freund continued as follows in his fire speech: “We are extremely looking at our players. Health is the most important thing. We do a lot, a lot. And then something like that happens. Of course that’s hard.” And further: “And then the club is also publicly accused of prohibiting the players to go there and there.”
Freund opposed this: “We enable them to do almost everything, but we want fit players. And then something comes out. It’s really, really bitter.” Finally, the Austrian did not forget to emphasize: “By the way, we are the employer and also pay the players. That is why we will do it exactly.” So the last word in the Davies case is far from being spoken.
However, the topic draws a lot more, overarching circles. Freund also criticizes how closely the schedule is clocked by the World Association FIFA and European Association UEFA: “I find it fundamentally borderline. We know how many games the top boys have. They then have a stop.
As a concrete example, he cited the quarter -final second leg in the Nations League between France and Croatia “two days after the first game with the stoppage time and extension 120, 130 minutes,” said friend. According to Freund, such a clock of the games could “put the clock after” when the next injury to a player would come. “You basically have to think about it. It’s not just about Bayern Munich, it’s about the health of the players. You have to discuss that really,” said Freund.
