Soccer – Munich – Salihamidzic wants to become more independent of promoter Hoeneß – Bavaria
Munich (AP) – Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic will emancipate himself from sponsor and Bayern patron Uli Hoeneß. “What a lot of people apparently can’t really imagine is that I now decide things in the way that I believe are right for FC Bayern. If Uli disagrees, he says: Well, okay, you can do it! But then you have to hold your head when things go wrong,” said Salihamidzic (45) to “Zeit-Magazin” in an interview.
“Uli Hoeneß knows that it’s good for me to emancipate myself in my role, also from him. In addition, I always have to coordinate my convictions with the board of directors and the supervisory board,” he continued.
Salihamidzic became sports director at the German record champions in 2017, and the former professional was promoted to the board in 2020. At the beginning of his tenure, he still had problems finding his role between President Hoeneß and Australian CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
“In retrospect, it can be said that I should have positioned myself more clearly. It’s an open secret that the two, to put it mildly, rated some things differently. If one said A, the other often B,” said Salihamidzic. “Internally I obviously articulated my opinion clearly, but externally I tried to say both A and B with consideration for both. The impression had to be created in public: He’s idling around. I would do it differently today. “
© dpa-infocom, dpa:220720-99-91677/2