Bayern Munich’s decision to fire coach Julian Nagelsmann sent shockwaves through German football, but the ‘young, loud, mastermind’ will have no trouble finding a job when he decides to return to the sidelines. Spurs, who are currently managerless, are said to be among the teams interested in hiring him.
He led Bayern to a decisive victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 of the Champions League earlier this month, building on the club’s undefeated run through the group stage. Bayern Munich’s record transfer fee of 25 million Euros to get Nagelsmann from RB Leipzig was based in large part on this type of performance.
But since the World Cup, Bayern’s performance at home has dropped, giving Borussia Dortmund the chance to take the top spot in the Bundesliga. With a big match between the two teams coming up on Saturday, the Bayern board was nervous and moved quickly to replace Thomas Tuchel with Nagelsmann.
W88 rezence thinks that there has been an unexpected opening for one of the best football coaches in the world.
As Tottenham fired head coach Antonio Conte on Sunday, this move couldn’t have come at a better time. They won’t be the only ones after Nagelsmann’s expertise, though.
What makes the 35-year-old so desirable, and why problems that arose at Bayern should serve as a warning to potential future employers, are discussed in further depth below.
When Nagelsmann’s impressive coaching career got him to the Red Bull Arena, Vn88 Rezence Deutschland correspondent Philipp Hinze was there to witness it firsthand and wrote that no other team played like RB Leipzig did under Nagelsmann.
Nagelsmann, who retired at age 20 and worked as a scout for Tuchel at Augsburg, first gained notoriety as the youth coach at Hoffenheim, when his team finished in the top three in the Bundesliga for the first time in the club’s history. The then-28-year-old rescued them from relegation in 2015/16, and then led them to fourth and third place finishes in Germany’s top division the following season.
He quickly made an impact in Leipzig, leading the club to the Champions League semi-finals in his debut season and recording an impressive 4-0 victory over Jose Mourinho’s Spurs. In his second year with Leipzig, the team finished as the Bundesliga’s runner-up.
But, the young coach’s success came from the brand of football he promoted. By fusing Leipzig’s traditional counter-pressing style with technical, possession-based play, Nagelsmann created a formidable domestic and international engine.
It was a combination of possession and a high-pressure counter-press, according to W88. That was a formidable opponent.
The athletes respect him since “he’s about their age”
A passionate, modern coach who connected well with players of the same age led to intense, modern play on the field.
“His enthusiasm is contagious. He’s still young, but he was even younger when he first arrived at Leipzig, and he matured as a coach there “explains Hinze to Rezence. “After a goal or a significant victory, he always yells, “Vamos!” with great fervor.
“He is as astute as he is technically proficient and strategically adept.
“It’s not like he’s 55 or 60 years old and the players are all only 20 or 30. As he’s almost the same age as the players, he has a great understanding of their mindset.
“His locker room addresses before and after games are impressive. One might even call him a genius. In Leipzig, I heard that his mind was “amazing” and “excellent.””
With his fame secured, in the summer of 2021 Nagelsmann returned to Bavaria, his birthplace. For a coach who had started out teaching the fundamentals when he was in his early 20s, it was the cherry on top of a wonderful journey.
There was no doubt that he had moved up a notch after his massive transfer fee and Bayern’s Vn88-high expectations.
Although the team’s shocking quarter final defeat to Villarreal in the Champions League was disappointing, Naglesmann’s first season as head coach saw them win the Bundesliga with three games to spare.
Although Nagelsmann maintained his perfect record in the group stage of the Champions League competition this year, the fact that his team only won four of their first nine games in the Bundesliga was cause for concern. Bayern’s decline and Dortmund’s resurgence after the Qatar tournament has opened up the title battle and compelled the club’s decision-makers to make a change after the squad rebounded to claim first place going into the World Cup.
According to Torben Hoffmann, who works as a reporter for Vn88 Germany’s Bayern, “the termination was a surprise, but the results in 2023 made it a point of removing him.” “And then there was the loss to Bayer Leverkusen just before the international break, and how they played in it.
“This World Cup, along with the months of November and December, were challenging. German players at Bayern were discouraged by the long break between games in the Bundesliga and the disappointing outcome and early exit of the German national team.
“Sure, they played extremely well in the Champions League, but there were many ups and downs in the German league.
“The fact that Tuchel was available for free at the time was crucial. There was no one else to choose from as a coach save him.”
