Rummenige interview / van Gaal's contract extended
Bayern is after the 1:2 loss against Mainz in a crisis. An interview with the chief executive officer Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
BILD: Belated happy birthday for your birthday on Saturday. Did the team ruin your celebrations?
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (55): "One can't chose. I was out in a restaurant with my family and the co-workers of the management. Louis van Gaal also was there."
BILD: How was the mood of the coach?
Rummenigge: "Louis of course was disappointed because too many players played beneath their skills."
BILD: Van Gaal foreboded difficulties for the start. But the WC is eleven weeks back now. Can the supposedly lacking fitness still be a reason for the bad shape?
Rummenigge: "Passion, will, agressivness and the will to run are mental attributes. All of that has brought us last to the double and the final
in the Champions League. On Saturday the team didn't show that."
BILD: The crisis of the strikers, then the weakness in the denfense and the injuries of Robben, Ribéry and Contento. Does it avenge no that you didn't get new players in summer?
Rummenigge: "We decided that with the coach and stand by that. Robben and Ribéry can't be replaced effectively. And Günter Netzer perfectly analysed this in his BILD-am-Sonntag column: Our national players have to grow."
BILD: Van Gaal also didn't want any new members because he relies on harmony instead of competition. Does that prove as counterproductive now?
Rummenigge: "The coach has this philosophy. And we fully trust in Louis van Gaal. The coach does a great job. It is not him who has to show skills, but the players."
BILD: We still ask ourselves: Will the planned extension of his contract until 2012 be postponed because of the false start?
Rummenigge: "We don't change our opinion after a loss. The contrary even: Already this week we want to extend his contract. And with that be want to show which importance Louis had for FC Bayern."
Source
Football record Champion Bayern München faces a heavy athletic crisis and symbolizes resistance by extending the coach Louis van Gaal's contact by a year. The coach signed the new contact on Monday in Basel where Bayern will meet the Swiss Double-Winner FC Basel on Tuesday for the Champions Leage (20.45 o'clock, Sky live). Also the whole coaching team will stay at Bayern.
The final talks about contracts between the management and van Gaal are said to have taken place Saturday evening after the 1:2 defeat of the Bayern against Mainz 05 "We love it to do things that no one expects. After victories everyone can extend. But it is a good sign for the public to also after a defeat greant the coach his significance", says chief executive officer Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The club wanted to symbolise with this step "clearly, which significance Louis has for FC Bayern".
Van Gaal explains his agreement with the extension of the labour condition: "It is always important for me to be able to win something and with a top club like FC Bayern one can win something." Besides the "co-operation with my players is great, which is the most important point." Also with his bosses he has a "very good relationship. They support me the way they supported me before the Champions-League-Final." And finally his wife Truus who "is in love with Munich and happy that we stay".
That the contract will only be extended for one year was a wish of van Gaal "and we did follow his wish", says Rummenigge.
Van Gaal who always pointed out that he soon future he wants to coach a national team again, started in the summer of 2009 at Bayern and lead them to the Double and to the final of the Champions League (0:2 against Inter Mailand) after initial difficulties. After the weak start in the season with only two wins in six matches there rose criticism in his environment. Rummenigge stepped up against that. "We fully trust in van Gaal. The coach does a great job. It is not him who has to show skills, but the players", he said.
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As mentioned here by the_ladyj and here from FC Bayern the contract is until 30.06.2012.