FRANKFURT (AP) - Bayern Munich bosses have decided to part company with coach Juergen Klinsmann after the end of the season, Bild newspaper said Friday.
However, should Bayern lose or draw Saturday at home against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, the newspaper said Klinsmann will be fired immediately, without citing any sources.
"It's all but certain" that Klinsmann will leave in the summer, Bild said.
"The bosses have noticed: Klinsmann doesn't reach the team any longer. He is only a spectator of his own 11," the paper said.
The pressure on Klinsmann increased dramatically after Bayern's crushing 4-0 loss at Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals. The coach and his players struggled to find an answer for how to play against the crafty Barcelona team guided by Lionel Messi, who scored twice.
Club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and general manager Uli Hoeness want to stick with Klinsmann until the end of the season and "somehow" still win the championship with him, Bild said, so that the "failed relationship still produces something good."
"In the summer, it's as good as certain, it's the end of project Klinsmann. Internally, everyone is in agreement. There should be a clean separation," Bild said.
Klinsmann said Thursday, before the team's return from Barcelona, that he had no intention of stepping down, but many newspapers speculated that he was about to be fired with Bayern's defeat at the Camp Nou on Wednesday having been preceded by a 5-1 loss to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga last week.
Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer described the first half of the match in Barcelona, when Bayern conceded all four goals, as "the most dreadful I'd ever seen from Bayern - a catastrophe."
Beckenbauer, who writes columns for Bild, had said before the match that Bayern officials would get together after the season and "discuss consequences, if necessary."
After the match, Rummenigge cautioned against making any hasty decisions.
"Now, we have to remain rational and not to overreact and not make any senseless, spontaneous decisions," Rummenigge said.
"We have to save what can be saved and that means trying to achieve our goal in the eight remaining games in the Bundesliga. I can only ask everyone to do their best to use the one chance in the Bundesliga that we still have."
Klinsmann, who led Germany to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup at home in his first coaching job, had never coached a club before arriving at Bayern at the start of the season on a two-year contract.
Bayern has already conceded one of its titles from last season, the German Cup, and could also lose its Bundesliga title. The team is fourth in the standings - three points behind Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV - with eight rounds remaining.
Klinsmann had left his California residence to return to Germany and take up the most scrutinized job in German football outside perhaps the national team. He surrounded himself with a large international staff and instituted many changes but Bayern has rarely shone this season, especially since the winter break.
The Champions League has now been written off and Bayern must try to win the only possible title still within its grasp.
Klinsmann told reporters Thursday that he had not lost his interest in the job "in any way."
"It's a very difficult moment and that's normal for the job," Klinsmann said. "But I know what this team is capable of and I have no doubt that it will show a reaction Saturday."
haha, hicks must thanking his lucky stars we scared the **** out of him last season when he wanted this buffoon to replace rafa.
However, should Bayern lose or draw Saturday at home against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, the newspaper said Klinsmann will be fired immediately, without citing any sources.
"It's all but certain" that Klinsmann will leave in the summer, Bild said.
"The bosses have noticed: Klinsmann doesn't reach the team any longer. He is only a spectator of his own 11," the paper said.
The pressure on Klinsmann increased dramatically after Bayern's crushing 4-0 loss at Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals. The coach and his players struggled to find an answer for how to play against the crafty Barcelona team guided by Lionel Messi, who scored twice.
Club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and general manager Uli Hoeness want to stick with Klinsmann until the end of the season and "somehow" still win the championship with him, Bild said, so that the "failed relationship still produces something good."
"In the summer, it's as good as certain, it's the end of project Klinsmann. Internally, everyone is in agreement. There should be a clean separation," Bild said.
Klinsmann said Thursday, before the team's return from Barcelona, that he had no intention of stepping down, but many newspapers speculated that he was about to be fired with Bayern's defeat at the Camp Nou on Wednesday having been preceded by a 5-1 loss to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga last week.
Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer described the first half of the match in Barcelona, when Bayern conceded all four goals, as "the most dreadful I'd ever seen from Bayern - a catastrophe."
Beckenbauer, who writes columns for Bild, had said before the match that Bayern officials would get together after the season and "discuss consequences, if necessary."
After the match, Rummenigge cautioned against making any hasty decisions.
"Now, we have to remain rational and not to overreact and not make any senseless, spontaneous decisions," Rummenigge said.
"We have to save what can be saved and that means trying to achieve our goal in the eight remaining games in the Bundesliga. I can only ask everyone to do their best to use the one chance in the Bundesliga that we still have."
Klinsmann, who led Germany to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup at home in his first coaching job, had never coached a club before arriving at Bayern at the start of the season on a two-year contract.
Bayern has already conceded one of its titles from last season, the German Cup, and could also lose its Bundesliga title. The team is fourth in the standings - three points behind Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV - with eight rounds remaining.
Klinsmann had left his California residence to return to Germany and take up the most scrutinized job in German football outside perhaps the national team. He surrounded himself with a large international staff and instituted many changes but Bayern has rarely shone this season, especially since the winter break.
The Champions League has now been written off and Bayern must try to win the only possible title still within its grasp.
Klinsmann told reporters Thursday that he had not lost his interest in the job "in any way."
"It's a very difficult moment and that's normal for the job," Klinsmann said. "But I know what this team is capable of and I have no doubt that it will show a reaction Saturday."
haha, hicks must thanking his lucky stars we scared the **** out of him last season when he wanted this buffoon to replace rafa.
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