On Thursday, Julian Nagelsmann, the football coach at FC Bayern, spoke about his employer's claim.

"If I didn't win the championship, I wouldn't be the coach here anymore," he said.

And even if you should appreciate his honesty, you have to be honest: He was able to say that because he can be sure that he will win the championship with his team.

Christopher Meltzer

Sports correspondent in Munich.

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This Saturday (6.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky) Nagelsmann, 34 years old, can win his first title as a professional football coach in the stadium in Munich.

It suits the state of the Bundesliga well if that works out with a win over Borussia Dortmund, the pursuers who haven't been pursuers in recent years.

"I am ambitious"

And it's even more fitting that even if we lost, that would very, very likely happen sooner rather than later.

That's why the press conference wasn't just about the Bundesliga, but also about the Champions League.

Nagelsmann said: "I'm ambitious, the last two weeks have clouded me."

It's been less than two weeks since the coach and his team were eliminated in the quarter-finals of Europe's most important club competition against Villarreal FC, seventh in the Spanish league.

That still has an effect on Nagelsmann.

Because he knows he's lost in two games to a team whose players were inferior to him.

Because he knows that such a good chance - lucky draw in the round of 16 (RB Salzburg) and in the quarter-finals, all regular players available - could not come anytime soon.

And because he knows how important the competition is in his club.

"Basically, the championship is a bit less important in Munich than the Champions League," he said.

“Nevertheless, it is the most honest title.

Still, when you win your eleventh or sixth title, it's a bit human that it's not the most special moment."

In order to be able to experience such moments again in the coming season, Nagelsmann has repeatedly indicated in his public appearances what he expects.

After the game in Bielefeld, for example, he said that you had to be careful not to "oversleep" too many transfer phases.

That was one of those clever Nagelsmann phrases that can be interpreted in different ways.

Does that mean that the club has already missed transfer phases?

Or that the club shouldn't oversleep?

After all, this week it became apparent that the contracts of Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller, the captain and his deputy, will probably be extended by a year until mid-2024.

For a club that can no longer afford the most expensive transfers and still wants to win the Champions League, it seems to be the only mandatory task not to let the top players that you have go.