Bundesliga. Annoyed, Thomas Tuchel responds to Uli Hoeness three days before the semi-final against Madrid

“I am wounded to my honor as a coach”, complains the Bavarian technician Thomas Tuchel, before the start of the match against Eintract Frankfurt. This statement came a few hours after its honorary president Uli Hoeness in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “He doesn’t think he can improve on a Davies, a Pavlovic or a Musiala. If it doesn’t work, you have to buy someone else. I think you have to work hard with them and give them confidence “.

“It’s a completely different story.”

The 50-year-old German coach, who will no longer be Bavarian next season, seemed very moved by these words from Hoeness: “I wouldn’t have reacted at all if it hadn’t come from Uli Hoeness. I would then have said that it was not worth commenting on. But the fact that it came from him, our boss, and that it was four days before the game against Real Madrid, that’s a completely different story.”.

Regarding the facts presented by the Bavarian dean regarding training and management, Tuchel responded dryly, without achieving “to understand with the three examples given”.

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However, he justified himself by listing a few players who were able to express themselves under his leadership: “The list is very long. It started in Mainz, then in Dortmund with Passlack, Weigl, Dembélé, in Paris with Nsoki, Nkunku, Diaby, with Tanguy (Kouassi) who was then transferred here. At Chelsea, the academy was a pillar of our Champions League victory. A week ago we brought in Lovro Zvonarek to reward him for his style and the effort he puts into training..