Thomas Tuchel will go down in history as one of the worst Bayern Munich coaches ever. Under him, FC Bayern lost their decade long Bundesliga win streak, and played some of the most soul-crushing football known to man. Replacing him with Vincent Kompany was like giving glucose to a hypoglycemic. An instant, almost miraculous recovery.
Everyone in the fanbase knows why Kompany is so much better than Tuchel, but Uli Hoeneß went one step further. On the Podcast Auf eine weiß-blaue Tasse (via @iMiaSanMia)
the FC Bayern patriarch did a brutally honest takedown of the former Chelsea FC and current England national team coach.
“Two things are important,” began Hoeneß. “This coach [Kompany] makes every player better. And I’ve never seen him conduct a press conference where he said: I need a left-back, I need a right-back, as was the case under Tuchel.”
“When the team didn’t play well, he [Tuchel] never questioned himself; it was always the team’s fault: ‘That right-back isn’t working, Kimmich isn’t a good player’.”
“And [he said] regarding Gravenberch, who now plays in Liverpool: ‘I can’t use him at all’. He once asked Stanišić if he could speak German, even though he was born here.”
“So these are all things that are unacceptable,” Hoeneß concluded. “And that’s the big difference.”
Aside from the rabid segment of the fanbase that called him “Juppel”, any Bayern Munich fan could have told you these things about Thomas Tuchel. However, Uli saying it gives it more weight. It’s a wonder that the club actually attempted to extend the 52-year-old after that last disastrous season, and only went for Kompany after Tuchel rejected the offer. That was perhaps the only good thing he ever did for this football club.
