After Tuchel's departure was announced, the club announced that the struggling German champions will move on in a “new direction” with a new manager next season.
German club Bayern Munich will part ways with manager Thomas Tuchel at the end of a disappointing season, the Bundesliga champions announced in a statement.
Tuchel's contract was signed less than a year ago and runs until 2025, but will end at the end of this season.
Bayern have lost their last three competitive matches, including a 3-0 loss to league leaders Bayer Leverkusen, and are eight points behind in the Bundesliga.
Tuchel replaced Julian Nagelsmann as manager in March 2023, but despite leading them to the Bundesliga title in the final round of last season, he has not yet experienced the type of form that has dominated German football for the past decade. I haven't shown it this season.
Bayern CEO Jan Christian Dresen said there will be a “new direction” next season with a new manager.
“Following open and positive discussions, we have reached the decision to end our cooperation by mutual agreement in the summer,” Dresen said on Wednesday.
“Our aim is to pursue a new direction in football with a new head coach for the 2024/25 season.”
“Until then, everyone at the club is clearly called upon to achieve the maximum possible results in the Champions League and Bundesliga. I also place a clear responsibility on the team in this regard. ”
A new direction for the new season: FC Bayern and Thomas Tuchel will end their cooperation in the summer.
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Tuchel, who previously managed Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain and won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021, will focus on the Bundersiga and his remaining goals in the Champions League for the rest of his time in Munich. He said it would be. .
His first full season at Bayern was marred by a spate of injuries to key players, and despite the arrival of Harry Kane, who signed a Bundesliga record contract, he said the squad was relatively thin at the start of the season. was speaking.
“We have agreed to end our cooperation at the end of this season,” Tuchel said. “Until then, of course, I will continue to do everything I can with my coaching staff to achieve maximum success.”
Bayern's next match will be in Munich against RB Leipzig, who have defeated Bayern twice in the past.
The last season in which the club failed to win the title was the 2011-12 season. Since then, they have won all 11 Bundesliga titles, won the German Cup four times, the Champions League twice, and completed the treble in 2013 and 2020.
They are currently eight points behind Leverkusen, lost to a third-tier team in the German Cup and must overcome their deficit against Lazio to stay in Europe.
Leverkusen are managed by Xabi Alonso and the former Bayern player could be a top candidate in the summer. However, he has also been linked with another former club, Liverpool, whose manager Jurgen Klopp will leave in the summer.
Klopp is seen as the future Bayern manager, but has said he would like to take some time off after leaving Anfield.
