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At the end of the bitter evening he could hardly contain himself.
"Those are things ... I have to answer the questions professionally here.
But I don't always have to answer everything.
I also have to act a little, ”said Hans-Dieter“ Hansi ”Flick on Wednesday after his team's 2: 3 (1: 2) against Paris St. Germain.
The defeat in the first leg of the quarter-finals was the first for him as coach of FC Bayern in the Champions League, for the club the first in the competition in more than two years.
Just like the result and the missed chances to score (31: 6 shots on goal), the 56-year-old was obviously annoyed by the behavior of his sports director Hasan Salihamidzic in the Jérôme Boateng case.
With his answer during the press conference to a question about the personnel, Flick made it clear how much he is seething.
Injured players, the threat of elimination from the premier class and internal unrest - the mood at Bayern is irritable.
Flick criticizes indiscretions
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The farce around Boateng shows again how tense the relationship between Salihamidzic and Flick is - even after the truce in March.
Salihamidzic had announced before the kick-off against Paris that the club would not renew Boateng's contract, which ended in June.
He spoke of a "joint decision by the club management".
According to WELT information, Flick is angry.
He cannot understand how such a deserving player is dealt with and the timing of the club leadership.
Flick to Boateng farewell - "Must act"
Bayern sports director Hasan Salihamidzic confirmed the departure of Jerome Boateng shortly before the Champions League game against PSG.
FCB coach Hansi Flick was confronted with it after the game.
Source: Stats Perform News
In an interview with WELT AM SONNTAG last year, Flick made it clear that he would like a late decision in the Boateng case.
He annoys the point in time at which this topic is now being publicly fired.
After all, Boatengs had been preparing to end in Munich for months.
Flick seems to be wondering: Why do you have to create facts about an important game and cause unrest?
The Boateng case is a big topic in the team, the world champion is popular.
Boateng is disappointed with the club.
It was already announced on Monday that the defender definitely had no future at the club.
The "kicker" reported on a corresponding resolution by the supervisory board.
The days before the quarter-finals, when the team should focus on the game, were shaped by the personnel.
"I don't know how that gets to the media," said Flick Tuesday.
Association president Herbert Hainer is chairman of the committee, honorary president Uli Hoeneß is a member.
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As an RTL expert, Hoeneß recently said publicly that, in his opinion, national coach Joachim Löw Boateng did not need to nominate for the EM.
A remarkable way of dealing with a player who has been playing for the German record champions for ten years and who has won the triple with him twice.
Hoeneß sees FC Bayern as a "family", but in the Boateng case he does not seem to consider family behavior to be necessary.
Flick publicly opposed Hoeneß in this matter and emphasized that he knows it so that they support each other at Bayern.
Flick is the preferred coach at the DFB
The coach had already annoyed the club's actions in poker for David Alaba.
At the end of last year, the club management around Hainer and Salihamidzic had withdrawn the contract offer for the defense chief before the two important games against RB Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund.
The conflict between Salihamidzic and Flick could have far-reaching consequences for Bayern.
The German Football Association (DFB) is looking for a successor to the then outgoing national coach Joachim Löw for the period from summer.
Flick could soon ask the club bosses to terminate his contract, which is valid until 2023, and become the new national coach.
He is considered the association's ideal solution, was Löw's assistant for eight years and then sports director for almost three years.
Löw said on Wednesday in the stadium when asked about Flick as his successor: "He has to decide for himself whether he wants to do it." Bayern want to fight for Flick.
CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge emphasizes that what has been contractually agreed should be adhered to.
He communicated this to Flick in no uncertain terms.
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Flick cannot be satisfied with the additions signed by Salihamidzic.
Marc Roca has not played an important role so far, the Spanish midfielder was injured against Paris.
And defender Bouna Sarr did not appear again, although he is fit.
Tanguy Nianzou, recently injured for a long time, only sat on the bench.
Now that Bayern urgently need their second row, the squad's weaknesses are showing.
Before the second leg, to which the Munich team travel as an outsider, Flick has enormous personnel worries.
Serge Gnabry tested positive for Corona, goalscorer Robert Lewandowski, Douglas Costa and Corentin Tolisso are injured.
Leon Goretzka and Niklas Süle were also injured in the game against Paris.
Bayern had to consider themselves lucky that they still have Boateng at the moment: Flick switched him on.
"The squad is getting thinner and thinner," said Flick.
According to "Bild", Süle threatens to be absent for weeks with a torn muscle fiber.
How is Kahn positioning itself?
In Boateng and Alaba, two defenders will leave Munich in the summer.
Süle's future is open, Chelsea FC should be interested.
It would be the last chance for Bayern to get a transfer for Süle - his contract ends on June 30, 2022.
In December, a confidante Flicks stops in Rummenigge, the club boss will not extend his contract, which will then end, despite the Corona crisis.
Oliver Kahn, member of the Bayern board of directors, recently avoided statements about the situation of coach Flick
Source: Getty Images / Alexander Hassenstein
His successor will be Oliver Kahn, currently already a member of the board.
It is eagerly awaited how he positions himself in the dispute between Salihamidzic and Flick in the coming weeks.
Or if he even does it.
In the past few days, Kahn and Salihamidzic avoided commenting on the coaching situation for the time after the summer.
They evaded interviews.
"The contract terms are known," said Salihamidzic at Sky.
When asked if he was looking for a new coach, he replied that you only prepare for the upcoming game.
"You bring up everything else in the debate, I don't want to take part in that."
Flick avoids a commitment to FC Bayern beyond the current season.
“My focus is that we play football successfully.
Everything else is currently not my topic, ”he said.
Record national player and Sky expert Lothar Matthäus has known Flick for decades, both are friends.
For Matthäus it is clear: “If you want to stay, you can say that too.
If he doesn't want to say anything beyond the season, then he has something else on his mind. "
The game in Paris could be the last in the Champions League for Flick in his current job.