He Bayern suffered, for the first time in a long time, but triumphed again. There are already four drinks in this atypical 2020. Salad bowl, Pokal, Champions and now the European Super Cup. In 2013, the Bayern Heynckes already he got it. It was the icing on the cake for that generation of legends as they are Schweinsteiger or Lahm that, shortly after, they ended up hanging their boots. The Kimmich, Goretzka and Gnabry careers, none older than 25 years, have just start. There are Bayern for a while. And his reign, taking into account the level he has already reached, looks like it will go on for a long time.
“It may be that we are living the beginning of A new age“, He said Herbert Hainer, president of the Bavarian team, a few weeks ago. He architect of everything that is happening to Bayern is Hansi flick. D-Day is November 2, 2019. Bayern suffers a very hard thrashing by 5-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt, which puts an end to the Croatian's stage in Munich. TO lack of big names in the market, the leadership of the six-time European champion hands over the reins of a broken team to Kovac's second. Ten months later, Flick is already eternal in the Bavarian capital. He created a beast that has won all his matches since February.
He knew how to fit the pieces that the club's sports management, led by Hasan Salihamidzic, had acquired over a few years that served to build the Bayern of tomorrow. So much about him pitch like in the noble plant. Players like Gnabry, Sané or Süle to fill the void left by Robben, Ribéry or himself Schweini, footballers who had marked an era at the Allianz Arena. They just needed someone who knew get the juice out of them and Flick did it. In the noble plant, more of the same. Salihamidzic is chosen to walk in the footsteps of the legendary manager Hoeness, Oliver kahn is already part of the board of directorsa and will inherit the role of CEO Rummenigge in 2022.
“A club like Bayern have to chase the goal of securing the future. Those who come will continue to keep the club at the top. I have no doubt “, Rummenigge explained. Along with Hoeness, he always based the club success in a solid and stable economy. Year after year, Bayern runs a surplus. The box is full. And now it serves as a lifeline in a crisis that has placed more than one rival on the precipice. “Am convinced of what we'll go out with a black eye of this, “believes Rummenigge. The club's supervisory board approved a budget of 200 million euros for transfers, but virus forced to lower it considerably.
Nübel and Kouassi came free, 45 kilos were invested for Sané. A side is sought, but not for more than 20 million. Austerity. That is the key to a club that, in its day, also understood that it had to reorganize your quarry. To do this, the Bundesliga champion built a training center that, little by little, is paying off. Musiala, 17-year-old English pearl, scored the goal that closed 8-0 at the start of the Bundesliga against Schalke. Zirkzee, Singh, Batista-Meier and Dajaku are more products of a factory that already feed the first team. And the second, who was proclaimed champion of the third division of the Bundesliga. There is future.
“We want to cycle“were the words of Kimmich, undisputed leader of this golden generation at the Allianz Arena. He secret is in their friendship. Players like Goretzka, Gnabry, Süle or Kimmich himself they know of the lower ones of the Mannschaft, where they began to share costumes and became friends. Each one made their way to meet again at Bayern, where they reflect that trust and closeness on the pitch. Under Kovac's orders, when things were not going so well, there was talk of a locker room full of egos. Today they are “eleven bosses on the grass”, how says Goretzka. And they are here to stay.