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Hansi Flick could also have become an actor.

In Leverkusen on Saturday, he took his national player Leroy Sané in in the 32nd minute and out again in the 68th minute, which is considered emasculated among footballers - but afterwards when asked what prompted him to this maximum penalty, such as innocence reacted from the country.

"Why maximum penalty?" Asked Flick.

Not much was missing, and the Bayern coach would also have claimed that he wanted to please Sané and put the replacement under the Christmas tree for him as a present.

When he first listened to it, everyone took it for granted - but thank God there are experts who then explained to us that no Santa Claus came with sweet gingerbread, but Knecht Ruprecht with his rod.

Sané has not yet understood Munich

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"That was an educational measure," revealed Mehmet Scholl on "Bild live", of a "tough number", said Sané's teammate Thomas Müller, and on Sky Lothar recognized Matthäus with his still quick start on the first five meters after the final whistle: "I know what has happened at FC Bayern in the last two or three weeks."

Accordingly, Flick tried again and again to get Sané on the track.

With ailing stars, coaches often try the soft tour first by heating their jerseys or preheating the toilet seat, but when at some point all conventional means of motivation have been exhausted, they reach for the rolling pin.

“Sané has to learn to understand FC Bayern,” demands Scholl.

He knows what makes Bavaria tick, every player there has to want to do everything every day to rock the child.

Thorsten Frings, another old Bavarian, once described it like this: "I don't just shuffle my balls across the square."

Matthew praises Flick's courage

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Sané only won every third duel in Leverkusen.

It's been going something similar for weeks: Whenever the gifted player plays for a short time, he rarely remembers the 45 million euros that he cost before the season.

As the icing on the cake, Bayern brought him, and his cruciate ligament rupture from the spring didn't bother anyone, on the contrary - someone comes along well rested, it was said, and he will march ahead in top shape when the Müllers & Co sag as tired heroes after the tough championship League summer.

The Bavarians cheer, Sané (r.) Comes trotting

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And now?

The cap does not decorate the game, but the grandstand.

From there, Sané watches as the tired heroes flay.

“Kimmich and Müller,” says Mehmet Scholl, “run up and down like berserkers”.

And Sané gets the mallet for it.

Matthäus also thinks it's good "that Hansi Flick has the courage to do so".

Many have bitterly experienced that it takes a lot of courage when a coach takes a star off the stage.

When Ralf Rangnick once dared to replace his world star Krassimir Balakov at VfB, the Bulgarian punched his shirt in front of his bib, and a word is said to have been uttered that begins with “A” and ends with “-loch”.

“Rangnick out!” Roared the stadium, and that's how it happened.

Or Jupp Heynckes.

He annoyed the stars Yeboah, Gaudino and Okocha at the same time at Frankfurt Eintracht, until Tony Yeboah mutinied: "He or I." When Heynckes left, some insulted him as the coffin nail of Eintracht and the others as a gravedigger.

FC Bayern has too many stars

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Erich Ribbeck should not be forgotten either.

Before he became national coach, he looked after FC Bayern in 1992 and annoyed world champion Thomas Berthold to such an extent that he was exempted from training for the sake of peace and henceforth "best paid German golf professional after Bernhard Langer" (according to treasurer Kurt Hegerich).

Berthold is still angry today, he occasionally appears as an angry speaker among the “lateral thinkers”, and what he thinks of Ribbeck, we'd better not quote here.

So Matthäus is fundamentally right: coaches need courage, especially when substituting.

Just not Hansi Flick.

Saturday's number was tough for Sané, but not for the coach.

Flick has too many stars in the team for Sané to be successful.

And inciting the audience against Flick would also be a difficult undertaking in these Corona times when the stadium is empty.

Hansi Flick has nothing to fear.

He has also found the perfect pedagogical tone.

He knows that the educational mallet must also have its charm, and that is why he did not condense Sané openly, but rather packed the maximum penalty in the declaration that otherwise he would have had to replace Thomas Müller.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work, says Flick, "because Thomas is simply indispensable for us because he makes smart decisions, because he can occupy the rooms very, very well and because he works for the team for over 90 minutes".

When is Sané coming?

This sentence is first class from a pedagogical point of view, it will make Sané think, word for word, and maybe even Joachim Löw, the national coach.

And besides, it is good for Müller.

He's really at home at the moment, almost like a father he hugged Sané after the game and whispered in his ear: "Don't be frustrated now, but motivated, then the cloud will soon vanish into thin air."

Hans-Dieter Flick struck exactly the right note in the Sané case

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This is how the one-two between the carrot and the stick works.

"Flick has shown Sané: It doesn't work like that," enthuses Mehmet Scholl, deeply impressed in his current "Bild" appearance "

Now comes Scholl"

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The only question left is: when is Sané coming?