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It was quiet for a long time.

Verbal attacks did not materialize.

But that's over.

In a conversation with Sport1, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, CEO of FC Bayern, did not give Oliver Bierhoff a good hair and attacked the director of national teams at the German Football Association (DFB) hard.

In an interview with “Sport-Bild”, when asked whether Hansi Flick, Bayern's coach, could be a possible successor to national coach Joachim Löw, Bierhoff said: “I would be crazy if I excluded that.” A statement that Rummenigge did not want to leave uncommented.

"The great cleaner and modernizer"

“I have to say frankly and honestly: At the moment, Oliver Bierhoff is always pretending to be the big tidier and modernizer at the DFB.

But everything that he has criticized in his various interviews in the last few days bears the name Oliver Bierhoff.

Regardless of whether it was, for example, his criticism of the German offspring or the training of coaches.

Sports director Oliver Bierhoff was responsible for everything for 15 years and was on board.

I would think about that and nothing else, ”said Rummenigge - and accused Bierhoff of disloyalty to national coach Joachim Löw.

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"I also find it disloyal to the current national coach, Joachim Löw, to publicly set up planning games for the future in the coaching position." Harsh words.

In a guest contribution to WELT AM SONNTAG, Bierhoff defended the DFB's “Project Future” against criticism and warned of further delays.

“If we don't act now, we will gamble away the future of German football.

That doesn't just sound dramatic - it actually is.

We have no more time to lose, ”wrote Bierhoff.

He was "absolutely convinced of the project, even if there could never be one hundred percent approval on such an important issue".

As for Flick, who still has a contract with Bayern until 2023, Rummenigge made a clear statement.

When asked whether he would let the coach go if he asked for clearance for the office of national coach, the chief executive now said: "I have always said that the coach is the most important employee and that we have a contractual agreement that is known.

So that's not an issue at all.

We will not solve the problems of the DFB.

And to be honest: If I were a coach and switched from FC Bayern to the DFB as an employer, it would just make me smile. "