Bayern Munich to half methods with coach Thomas Tuchel at season finish, says membership

Bayern misplaced their final three video games in all competitions, together with a 3-0 defeat to league leaders Bayer Leverkusen and have now dropped eight factors behind them within the Bundesliga.

They have been additionally crushed 1-0 by Lazio in final week’s Champions League first leg and now danger going with none silverware for the primary season in additional than a decade.

Tuchel had taken over in March 2023 from Julian Nagelsmann with excessive expectations however he suffered a bumpy begin, crashing out of the German Cup and the Champions League earlier than snatching the Bundesliga title from Borussia Dortmund on the ultimate matchday.

This season they’ve been equally mercurial, displaying solely glimpses of the shape that noticed them dominate German soccer for the previous decade. They have been eradicated from the German Cup by third-tier membership Saarbruecken.

Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen stated there could be “a brand new route” subsequent season with a brand new coach.

“In , open dialogue, we got here to the choice to finish our working relationship by mutual settlement in the summertime,” Dreesen stated. “Our aim is to pursue a brand new footballing route with a brand new head coach for the 2024/25 season.”

“Till then, each particular person on the membership is expressly known as upon to attain the utmost attainable within the Champions League and Bundesliga. I additionally explicitly maintain the crew accountable on this regard.”

The coach, who up to now had been in cost at Borussia Dortmund, Paris St Germain and in addition received a Champions League title with Chelsea in 2021, stated his remaining time in Munich could be centered on the remaining objectives within the Bundesliga and the Champions League.

His first full season at Bayern had been hit by a string of accidents to key gamers and by what he had stated was a comparatively skinny squad at the beginning of the marketing campaign regardless of the arrival of Bundesliga document signing Harry Kane.

He additionally triggered the ire of Bayern followers, opting to play Joshua Kimmich in defence as a substitute of a holding six and leaving veteran and crowd favorite Thomas Mueller on the bench for a number of video games.

“We now have agreed that we are going to finish our working relationship on the finish of this season,” Tuchel stated. “Till then, I’ll after all proceed to do all the pieces I can with my teaching employees to attain most success.”

Bayern, in second place within the Bundesliga on 50 factors, host RB Leipzig on Saturday.