Bayern Munich had a rough go of it in 2023\/24 \u2014 a calamity, by the standards it had set in its eleven-year Bundesliga title streak prior to that. That season, and the turnaround since then, is the example sporting boss Max Eberl leans on nowadays when dealing with accusations that the German top flight has become too one-sided.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember a year and a half ago we finished third in the league,\u201d Bayern\u2019s executive board member for sport said, in remarks captured by Bild (via @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cBayer Leverkusen was the reference back then. VfB Stuttgart impressed with some very attractive football. We were on the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter that, we made decisions \u2014 without buying players left, right and center. We made good and smart decisions. We signed Tom Bischof on a free, Jonathan Tah on a free, promoted young players like Lennart Karl and Wisdom Mike from our campus. It\u2019s not like we made a big \u2018transfer attack\u2019 \u2014 we had thoughts and ideas with our coach and made a strategy. Now fast forward a year and a half, you can see that we made good decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n The best of those decisions? Bringing in head coach Vincent Kompany to replace Thomas Tuchel, though of course, Kompany was reportedly far from first choice at the time. Conveniently, these are decisions made under Eberl\u2019s own tenure in Bavaria. But he has earned it with how far Bayern has come since the Tuchel days \u2014 which even for a club as well resourced as Bayern, was far from a given. Look at any messy English club for reference.<\/p>\n However, as a result, the Bundesliga is extremely one-sided this year \u2014 and as long as Kompany is at the helm, for the foreseeable future. So expect the topic to continue.<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich had a rough go of it in 2023\/24 \u2014 a calamity, by the standards it had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[71730,57079,15988,403,99],"class_list":["post-417685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-front-office","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-bayern-munich-bundesliga","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}