Another week, another football club in crisis.
This time, however, we’ve decided to scour the continent instead of just the Premier League for the ‘crisis club’.
The club we found?
Punch-drunk Bayern Munich:
What’s the crisis?
Out of DFB-Pokal at the hands of Frieburg.
Thumped by Manchester City 3-0 in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final.
Trying their very best to not win the Bundesliga with a rather disastrous draw with Hoffenheim at the weekend.
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Oh, and their big-money replacement for Robert Lewandowski was suspended by the club for literally punching another player after that Man City game.
It really isn’t going well for Thomas Tuchel at Bayern thus far.
Why are they in crisis?
Bayern’s inability to really compete with a team like Man City is due to the fact that, in recent seasons, the club sold their best defender and best forward and failed to adequately replace both.
Sadio Mane has been an utter disaster as Lewa’s replacement, scoring just six league goals, punching his teammates, and not even being good enough to be considered an automatic first-choice forward for either Julian Nagelsmann or Tuchel.
The replacements for David Alaba at the backline haven’t been much better either. While Matthijs de Ligt has finally found some form recently after a shaky start to life in Bavaria, Dayot Upamecano put in an all-time terrible performance in the 3-0 defeat to Man City.
What can they do to rectify it?
There’s three things that can be done:
A) Hope Borussia Dortmund continue to be the biggest bottle-job football club in the history of all living things.
B) Sign a striker who will score goals and not punch people in the summer.
C) Tighten up the defence, mainly by refraining from asking Upamecano to have the ball at his feet for extended periods of time…or ever.
Credit: 90min.com
