Den Bayern employ after 0: 3 at Manchester City not just sporting issues. Reports of a dispute between Sadio Mane and Leroy Sané still in the dressing room cause a stir off the pitch. According to consistent reports, those responsible for Bayern consulted on Wednesday evening, according to Sport1 CEO Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamidzic are said to have been involved in the talks. The Munich team returned from Manchester on Wednesday.
When asked, Bayern did not comment on the report on the dispute. Both players were asked to comment. Sané (27) and Mané (31) had already clashed verbally on the lawn because of a failed interaction. Mané, who switched to Bayern last summer, was substituted on Tuesday evening in the 69th minute. After the game, Mané then allegedly attacked Sané and punched him in the lip.
The two are not the first player duo that had a tangible dispute at Bayern. 1999 about were Lothar Matthäus and the French world champion Bixente Lizarazu bumped into each other in training. “Lothar told me that I played a bad pass and that it wasn’t him who received the ball badly. Then he continued to speak very loudly. I answered as we approached each other. He finally put his hand on my neck and I slapped him in the face,” Lizarazu described his view of the incident only 21 years later. The incident back then had “secured the respect of Matthäus and all my teammates.”
Lothar Matthäus (right) with his former coach Ottmar Hitzfeld
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It shouldn’t be the last incident in which Lizarazu was involved. 2002 were he and Niko Kovac attacked each other after several fouls in the training game. The former coach Ottmar Hitzfeld dropped out of practice and fined Lizarazu five figures. Three weeks later, Hitzfeld saw a scuffle between them Ghanaian Sammy Kuffour and Jens Jeremies. When trying to settle, teammate Thorsten Fink got a black eye. “Kuffour didn’t even apologize to me, from now on he’s air for me,” complained Fink in the “Bild” newspaper. Kuffour had to pay a similar fine to Lizarazu previously.
Even a generation of players later, the stories at Bayern continued off the field. 2012 got the superstars Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery in the dressing room at the semi-final game in the Champions League against Real Madrid in the hair during the half-time break. Ribéry hit Robben in the face, he had to pay a fine of 50,000 euros as a result. Robben got a black eye. Trigger of the dispute: Robben wanted that Toni Kroos shoots a free kick and not Ribéry.
Lewandowski and Boateng could just be separated
Also star striker Robert Lewandowski entered the Zoff chronicle. In May 2015 he was with the hardness of a training slide of Jerome Boateng disagreed and confronted him. Images of the incident document how teammates just manage to prevent a worse confrontation. Trainer Pep Guardiola then sent both of them into the dressing room.
2019 Boateng then served as an arbitrator when Lewandowski with Kingsley Coman bumped into each other. Both hit each other in the face with their fists in training, as reported by “Bild” at the time. Lewandowski had apparently previously shown dissatisfaction with Coman during an exercise. Boateng had tried together with Niklas Süle to separate the brawlers. Coach Niko Kovac confirmed a physical altercation at the following press conference. But he did not pronounce a punishment. “There are emotions in training. You can also see it in a positive light: We are alive!” he said.
A year later was Boateng then the culprit again. After a hard boarding of Leon Goretzka the central defender was so upset that he smacked the midfielder in the face with the palm of his hand. First arbitrator in this case: Robert Lewandowski, of all people. Boateng and Goretzka then reconciled, so Goretzka posted a joint photo on social networks with the hashtags “#FootballistEmotion” and “#AlleMalEntspannen”.
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