Thomas Tuchel is leaving at the end of the season, Xabi Alonso thanked for the invitation, Zinedine Zidane was not a realistic option, neither were Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho...
A dozen coaching names have been linked to the great for the last forty days - since Tuchel announced that he was leaving Munich - and now everything has come down to two experts.
According to a journalist close to the Bavarians, Florian Plettenberg, Julian Nagelsman and Roberto de Zerbi are in the game.
The former led Bayern from July 2021 to March 2023, before being sacked to the surprise of many.
Allegedly, the club, and at that time the decisions were made by Oliver Kan and Hasan Salihamidžić, did not forgive him for using the March representative break to go skiing instead of staying in the training camp and trying to find a way out of the crisis.
Nagelsman (36 years old) is now the coach of Germany, has a contract until the end of the Euros and has repeatedly said that he does not plan to extend it. Although such an epilogue is not ruled out either...
De Zerbi is eight years older than Nagelsman, he stood out leading Sassuolo, he also worked in Shakhtar until the start of the war in Ukraine, before taking over Brighton in September 2022.
The Italian has quickly impressed in the Premier League with the way his team plays, so he is believed to be one of the main candidates to become Liverpool's manager.
It is assumed that Bayern, after it became clear that Alonso would not come, threw all their cards at negotiations with Nagelsman, that De Zerbi is an alternative, and that the last option is the experienced Ralf Rangnik, who is sitting on the Austrian bench.
"Rangnik is highly respected in Munich, he was also discussed, but he is not among the main candidates," Plettenberg wrote and added:
"Bayern wants to resolve the issue of the coach in April".
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