What does Nagelsmann’s expulsion mean for Yann Sommer?

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Bayern paid eight million euros plus bonuses when they snatched Yann Sommer (34) from Gladbach in January. The driving force behind the transfer was trainer Julian Nagelsmann (35), who was also very lyrical about the summer afterwards.

After working together for a month, he said, “I’m very glad we got him.” Sommer is doing “very well in terms of performance and football”. And that despite the fact that “it was not very easy to get in” due to the special situation at FC Bayern with the injury of captain Manuel Neuer and various background noises. Sommer acts “very cleverly and cleverly,” says Nagelsmann. “He has a claim to leadership, which he fulfills. You always feel that you can play to him and not have to shiver from back passes. He has a very good personality.”

Now Nagelsmann is gone and Thomas Tuchel is coming – what does that mean for the summer?

“There’s Still Something in My Head”

It’s not easy to predict. It seems clear that Sommer will remain number 1 in the short term – unthinkable that Tuchel would suddenly put Sven Ulreich in goal against Dortmund (April 1).

What it means for the summer if Manuel Neuer (36) could return after a broken leg is difficult to predict. It was said that the relationship between Neuer and Nagelsmann was difficult. Just after goalkeeping coach and new confidant Toni Tapalovic was fired.

“Sky” pundit Lothar Matthäus did not believe in going it alone, as he said in a Blick interview: “It is a club history, decided by the whole management and also in line with coach Julian Nagelsmann.” And he continued: «Nagelsmann and Neuer apparently have spoken out, outwardly everything is settled. But something remains in the mind. You can’t say that we press the button and then everything that happened is out.”

When asked what Tuchel means to Sommer, Blick expert Markus Babbel says: “Nothing at the moment, he is number 1. The question is what will happen if Manuel Neuer comes back. But that would also have been the case with Julian Nagelsmann. A 50-50 story in which everyone can present themselves. The exciting question for me is whether they will keep the goalkeeping coach that Nagelsmann just got. Or if they bring back Toni Tapalovic or if Tuchel brings a new one. But at the moment Yann Sommer is on the safe side anyway. »

Tuchel: ‘Actually distortion of competition’

How Tuchel thinks about the keeper’s question, he will soon be told. In any case, Tuchel praised Neuer 2020 on the highest note after the lost Champions League final with Paris SG against Bayern. The goalkeeper showed save after save. Tuchel: “That is actually a distortion of competition. Manu was in top form at the wrong time. He has taken goalkeeping to a new level.”

In his career, however, Tuchel made a difficult decision in favor of a Swiss player: in 2015 he benched Dortmund goalie Roman Weidenfeller and made Roman Bürki the new number 1.

Source : Blick