The sorry story of Thomas Tuchel’s break-up with Bayern Munich

Bayern Munich were already the reigning world champions when they sought to own the future. “We are convinced that with Julian Nagelsmann, we can continue the magnificent successes of recent years,” said club president Herbert Hainer in April 2021. They paid a world-record transfer fee for a manager – some €25m – and gave the wunderkind of coaching a five-year contract.

Then they sacked Nagelsmann last year and , a sense of panic at the prospect of not winning the Bundesliga married with the sense they had”. To put it another way, he is leaving by mutual discontent, probably going down in history as the manager who ended Bayern’s run of 11 straight Bundesliga titles; so, in a more impressive way, is .