Hasan Salihamidzic counters criticism from Sammer
Munich – After the 2-0 victory in the Champions League over FC Barcelona, Bayern’s sports director Hasan Salihamidzic once again commented on the current mood in the team and specified his view of things.
“You all know how the squad is with us. We have 19, 20 very, very good players. If you’re there as a coach, you can pick anyone. We talk a lot, Julian [Nagelsmann] is very communicative. That makes everything easier for us. And we just discussed that. It’s not that we don’t want to win – on the contrary,” said Salihamidzic. It’s about maintaining the mood in the team.
Hasan Salihamidzic: TV appearance caused a stir
The background to the clarification is Salihamidzic’s appearance in “Sport1-Doppelpass” last Sunday. There the Bosnian had said: “It’s more important to me that we’d rather play a draw than that we have too many dissatisfied players.”
Now also the enlightenment of Salihamidzic.
The 45-year-old is also responding to Matthias Sammer’s criticism. Salihamidzic’s predecessor as the Munich sports director had condemned the approach of accepting one or the other draw. From Sammer’s point of view, FC Bayern must always win.
However, Salihamidzic countered this calmly: “That’s his opinion and I expressed my opinion. I also explained it to him. I think that he and some others may not have understood correctly what I meant.” He didn’t say that you could draw ten times.
Stefan Kumberger reported from the Allianz Arena in Munich
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