Former Bayern Munich boss Julian Nagelsmann knows a thing or two about being under pressure in a football job. Now, with Germany sputtering, Nagelsmann knows there is talk of his job being in jeopardy.
“To be afraid is never a good point. I’m still brave enough to want to win every game, we’ll do our best tomorrow as well. The team is important, not me. I’m not afraid. We’ll do a better job tomorrow,” said Nagelsmann (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “I don’t read everything. I would say I’m at least
smart enough to know what’s being written in the media world, even if I haven’t read anything. I’m fine with it. When things are going well, things are going well. We played poorly and didn’t have a good game. Then you have to accept the criticism, but I won’t change everything. I stand for certain things and can’t change them. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be the coach of the national team, but the coach of the journalist team.”
Germany needs to have a much better showing than it did earlier this week against Slovakia. Player selection, tactics, motivation, and mentality will all be under scrutiny by Germany fans against Northern Ireland.
Bayern Munich is on break and the German national team got off to a bad start in this round of World Cup qualifiers. Let’s dive into all of that!
This is what we have on tap for this episode of the Bavarian Podcast Works — Weekend Warm-up Show:
- Thomas Müller was back at Bayern Munich this week (already!?)
- Is Germany heading down a bad road after another painful loss?
- Can Julian Nagelsmann get it back on track?
- Who is accountable? Is there accountability at all?
- Should Joshua Kimmich do the right thing and move to right-back (again)?
- Unpacking the Erik ten Hag debacle at Bayer Leverkusen. Sport Bild had a wild story on the situation.
