Max Eberl, 50, signed a contract with the Bavarian powerhouse on Monday that runs through June 2027. Work will start on Friday.
A dramatic shakeup was enacted at Bayern Munich, which named Max Eberl as its new sporting director in order to avoid going without a major trophy for the first time in 12 years. According to the Bavarian powerhouse, Eberl, 50, signed a deal on Monday that runs until June 2027 and starts work on Friday. On Tuesday, he was scheduled to make an appearance at a press conference alongside club president Herbert Hainer and chief executive Jan-Christian Dreesen.
Reviving a team that has lost its air of superiority and no longer exudes the confident conviction that it was the finest in Germany will be Eberl’s task.
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“He started playing football at FC Bayern and became a professional here. In addition to his decades of experience in football management,” Hainer stated. “We have no doubt that he will successfully establish and mold this club’s future.”
Former right back Eberl only appeared in one Bundesliga match for Bayern, in October 1991, losing 3-2 to Stuttgart before being replaced at the half.
After playing for Greuther Fürth for three and a half seasons, he moved to Bochum in January 1994 and began a 23-year relationship with Borussia Mönchengladbach.Eberl saw success as Gladbach’s sporting director when his playing career ended. He left the position unexpectedly in January 2022, citing fatigue. He began working for Leipzig in the same capacity eight months later, but in September of last year, he was let go due to “his failure to commit to the club.”
Young players like Loïs Openda and Paris Saint-Germain loanee Xavi Simons arrived to star this season at Leipzig, where Eberl oversaw a rebuild that saw veteran players like Dominik Szoboszlai and Joško Gvardiol depart for large sums of money.
The rumors that linked Eberl to Bayern, where his work as a manager at Gladbach had long been respected, perhaps had something to do with his supposed lack of devotion to Leipzig.
Even before Hasan Salihamidžić was named sporting director of Bayern in 2017, the club had its sights set on Eberl.Oliver Kahn, the chief executive, and Salihamidžić were fired by Bayern shortly after the team won the league title in the previous season. For the issues that Eberl is required to resolve, both men paid a price.
Only because Borussia Dortmund blew the opportunity on the last day did Bayern win the Bundesliga the previous season. Earlier in the season, when the team’s collapse was evident, the decision was made to fire Kahn and Salihamidžić.
Salihamidžić was replaced by Christoph Freund, a former Salzburg sporting director who joined Bayern on September 1st, but he didn’t get involved in the summer transfer market until after the former chief financial officer Jan-Christian Dreesen assumed the role of CEO.
Eberl and Freund will be expected to collaborate, with the selection of a new coach being the top priority after Bayern decided not to renew their contract with Thomas Tuchel for the upcoming season after the squad suffered three straight losses.Tuchel stated on Friday that his employers couldn’t refute him over the weekend and that he wasn’t Bayern’s “only problem.”
“We all have to question ourselves if FC Bayern loses three straight times; the team, the coach, and we in management, we do it as well, it’s not in question at all,” Hainer stated on Saturday.
But as you will see, we will make the appropriate decisions and come to the correct conclusions.
When asked why Bayern had gone through three highly esteemed German coaches since 2021—Tuche, Julian Nagelsmann, and Hansi Flick—Hainer responded that there was always pressure to perform well at Bayern with extremely high standards.
Hainer remarked, “But ultimately, I think the key to success at FC Bayern is that we never settle for where we are and then we keep moving forward.”
Tuchel’s successor is expected to be Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso, a former Bayern player, though former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane and Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeneß have also been mentioned. The latter is the nephew of Bayern honorary president Uli Hoeneß and has led Stuttgart to third position in the Bundesliga after rescuing the club from relegation last season.
Hainer put the onus on the incoming coach to be successful, stating that the Bayern squad is “not un-coachable.” Eberl will be put under strain from the start.
