The 72-year-old looks set to return to the club for
a fourth stint in the hotseat following Carlo
Ancelotti's sacking last month
Jupp Heynckes has confirmed that he has been offered
the opportunity to become Bayern Munich interim boss
until the end of the season.
The former Bayern coach, who will be taking over for a
fourth spell in charge should he accept the offer, has
revealed a meeting with Uli Hoeness, Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge and Hasan Salihamidzic. "They have asked
me to takeover as a coach until summer 2018. We spoke
about many things."
Heynckes told German newspaper Rheinische
Post: "Nothing is clear, nothing is cut and dried. I have to
think about it for now. Four years have passed since I
ended my work at Bayern and the football has changed."
After a slow start to the campaign, head coach Carlo
Ancelotti was sacked , with a 3-0 Champions League
defeat to Paris Saint-Germain the final straw for the club’s
hierarchy.
It has been reported that prior to that game senior figures
in the Bayern squad had fallen out of favour with the
Italian, with Arjen Robben one of those who allegedly
criticised Ancelotti, although he described those claims as
“bulls***”.
"All of a sudden there are things appearing in the media
that I would like to distance myself from. These so-called
quotes are bulls***," Robben told NUsport.
"I hate it when things like this happen. I am the last person
out there who would have a go at a coach, a fellow player
or anyone else. You have to be a man when someone
leaves and don't hit out at anyone."
Nevertheless, the return of Heynckes to the Allianz Arena
hotseat should be a move that pleases the Dutchman,
who scored a dramatic late winner for the Bayern team
that the 72-year-old led to Champions League glory, when
they defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at Wembley in
2012-13.
Heynckes first coached Bayern from 1987-91, then on a
caretaker basis in 2009 before his most recent stint
between 2011 and 2013.
He finds himself coming into a club struggling with
transition, lying second in the Bundesliga, five points
behind leaders Dortmund, and facing a fight just to qualify
from their Champions League group, in which they will
face a vital double header with Scottish champions Celtic
before the end of the month.
Heynckes is a veteran of the coaching game, having first
taken charge of Borussia Monchengladbach, where he had
been an iconic striker, in 1979. He has since flitted
between jobs in Germany and Spain, spending one year in
Portugal with Benfica.
As well as winning the Champions League with Bayern, he
also lifted the trophy with Real Madrid in 1997-98, after
which he was thereafter sacked for failing to perform in La
Liga.
To his credit, he has three Bundesliga titles as a coach
and four more from his playing days, all of which he won
at Gladbach. Indeed, perhaps his greatest achievements
were claimed on the field, where he won the 1972
European Championship with West Germany and the
subsequent World Cup in 1974.
In 2013, Heynckes was named as FIFA’s World Coach of
the Year.
The 72-year-old looks set to return to the club for
a fourth stint in the hotseat following Carlo
Ancelotti's sacking last month
Jupp Heynckes has confirmed that he has been offered
the opportunity to become Bayern Munich interim boss
until the end of the season.
The former Bayern coach, who will be taking over for a
fourth spell in charge should he accept the offer, has
revealed a meeting with Uli Hoeness, Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge and Hasan Salihamidzic. "They have asked
me to takeover as a coach until summer 2018. We spoke
about many things."
Heynckes told German newspaper Rheinische
Post: "Nothing is clear, nothing is cut and dried. I have to
think about it for now. Four years have passed since I
ended my work at Bayern and the football has changed."
After a slow start to the campaign, head coach Carlo
Ancelotti was sacked , with a 3-0 Champions League
defeat to Paris Saint-Germain the final straw for the club’s
hierarchy.
It has been reported that prior to that game senior figures
in the Bayern squad had fallen out of favour with the
Italian, with Arjen Robben one of those who allegedly
criticised Ancelotti, although he described those claims as
“bulls***”.
"All of a sudden there are things appearing in the media
that I would like to distance myself from. These so-called
quotes are bulls***," Robben told NUsport.
"I hate it when things like this happen. I am the last person
out there who would have a go at a coach, a fellow player
or anyone else. You have to be a man when someone
leaves and don't hit out at anyone."
Nevertheless, the return of Heynckes to the Allianz Arena
hotseat should be a move that pleases the Dutchman,
who scored a dramatic late winner for the Bayern team
that the 72-year-old led to Champions League glory, when
they defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at Wembley in
2012-13.
Heynckes first coached Bayern from 1987-91, then on a
caretaker basis in 2009 before his most recent stint
between 2011 and 2013.
He finds himself coming into a club struggling with
transition, lying second in the Bundesliga, five points
behind leaders Dortmund, and facing a fight just to qualify
from their Champions League group, in which they will
face a vital double header with Scottish champions Celtic
before the end of the month.
Heynckes is a veteran of the coaching game, having first
taken charge of Borussia Monchengladbach, where he had
been an iconic striker, in 1979. He has since flitted
between jobs in Germany and Spain, spending one year in
Portugal with Benfica.
As well as winning the Champions League with Bayern, he
also lifted the trophy with Real Madrid in 1997-98, after
which he was thereafter sacked for failing to perform in La
Liga.
To his credit, he has three Bundesliga titles as a coach
and four more from his playing days, all of which he won
at Gladbach. Indeed, perhaps his greatest achievements
were claimed on the field, where he won the 1972
European Championship with West Germany and the
subsequent World Cup in 1974.
In 2013, Heynckes was named as FIFA’s World Coach of
the Year.
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