Oliver Kahn seems to have had his longest time at Bayern Munich. The president of Der Rekordmeister is under heavy fire after the title seemed to slip out of his hands last weekend. In Germany they think that the club icon will be pushed to the exit faster.
Hoeness and Rummenigge get involved in Bayern crisis
In the background, club icon Uli Hoeness would interfere with the situation. The 71-year-old club icon himself waved off as president of the club in 2019, but would still enjoy internal power. According to Abendzeitung München, Hoeness is now leading an internal revolution from a distance, which will ultimately have to cost Kahn its head.
Hoeness would have already filled Kahn’s position in the background. If it is up to the former driver, Jan-Christian Dreesen will replace him. Salient, because Dreesen recently announced that he would be stepping down as commercial director after this season. However, Hoeness considers him the ideal man to take on Kahn’s position.
Dreesen has been the dream candidate of the German Football Association for weeks to become general manager there, but Bayern wants to prevent that. Initially, Dreesen was supposed to be officially waved goodbye last weekend, during the last home game of the season, but that ceremony was cancelled. That fuels rumours of a longer, alternative stay at the club.
Hoeness and Rummenigge would serve as supervisors to Kahn’s successor
In addition to Hoeness, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is also convinced of the choice to trade in Kahn. The former illustrious duo would also play a more prominent role when Dreesen was appointed. Both Hoeness and Rummenigge would serve as supervisors to Kahn’s successor. Because Dreesen knows the club through and through, people blindly believe in his competences to succeed Kahn.
Meanwhile, Kahn is mainly blamed for the mediocre season. Bayern threatens to lose the hegemony in the Bundesliga after ten titles in a row and was eliminated early in the Champions League. Also, not all purchases paid off. Kahn is accused of serving too little as a sparring partner for technical director Hasan Salihamidzic. Unthinkable, according to Hoeness and Rummenigge. It seems to cost the former goalkeeper his head.
