Hoeneß rumbles:

“Rangnick has been the biggest mess!”

Uli Hoeneß, Ralf Rangnick(Bild: APA/GEPA)

FC Bayern Munich may have found a new coach in Vincent Kompany, but the months-long search for a successor to the hapless Thomas Tuchel has left its mark! So deep that honorary president Uli Hoeneß now felt compelled to personally clear up the rumor that he had caused a top candidate to turn down a job with an ill-considered statement - Ralf Rangnick ...

Hoeneß used a visit to the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian amateur club SV Seligenporten on Sunday to set the record straight.

Rangnick third choice after Xabi Alonso and Nagelsmann
A few months ago, when Rangnick had just been targeted by Bayern for the job of new coach, the 72-year-old had declared during a panel discussion that Rangnick was only Bayern's third choice after Xabi Alonso and Julian Nagelsmann.

The fact that the Austrian team boss turned down Germany's record champions shortly afterwards, leaving the supposedly ready-to-sign contract unsigned and opting to stay with the red-white-red team, was according to public and published opinion downright the fault of Hoeneß, who would have downright snubbed Rangnick with his remark ...

"Rangnick has been the biggest mess!"
"Rangnick was the biggest mess," Hoeneß ranted on Sunday, "he said he wouldn't come to FC Bayern because of me. He said to me that if I came to FC Bayern, I would come because of you.

The honorary Bayern president also revealed that he was meeting with the "soccer professor" on Monday: "Tomorrow he's coming to me for lunch and we're playing a game of golf. That's not exactly a sign that we don't like each other, is it?"