With the arrival of Eber, Bayern's Executive Board will form a new triumvirate: CEO Dreysen (Chairman of the Board), Chief Financial and Sales Officer Dierich, and Sports Director Ebel. Haina continues to serve as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. With the exception of Ebel, who was born as a player, the other three were not from football, but from business or finance. This goes against the tradition inherited from Beckon, Hoeness and Rummenigge, and Bayern seem to have chosen a new path after the departure of Kahn (chairman of the board) and Salihamidzic (sporting director). Of course, Hoeness and Rummenigge, although nominally "retired", are still behind the scenes. According to Sport1, Hoeness has a "veto" over the appointment of Bayern's new manager. And as a believer in Hoenessism, Ebel, the "self-benevolence", can also embody Hoeness's will to a certain extent.
Bayern have changed coaches frequently in the past few seasons, not only the results are not as expected, but the recruitment team has also been criticized. In a recent interview with the "Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung", the famous Mateus criticized Bayern's current management for not understanding football: "Bayern's current management members are all people who have a successful resume, but none of them are from football. They all love football, but they are not Hoeness, Rummenigge or Beckenbauer. It was a table full of successful people, but none of them had ever played football. Bayern not only need to pay attention to the balance sheet, but also people who understand sports. Bayern is not a bank. ”
Bayern's management is now a pure fan base, with board members Andreas Dresson, Didrich and Andreas Jung (who left after his contract expires this summer) all coming from the financial world, and Supervisory Board Chairman Heiner coming from the business world. If one of them stood up and spoke to the players, do you think anyone would listen? Can it touch the players? Who can stand there and speak? I still remember Beckenbauer reprimanding Bayern for playing 'Uwe Schiller football' after the loss. Bayern Munich in the past was not what it is now, and the understanding of football at the top was one of the club's strengths. ”
There is a story about the "old man football of Uwe Schiller" mentioned by Matthaus: in March 2001, Bayern lost 0-3 away to Lyon in the second group stage of the Champions League, and at the subsequent dinner, the then Bayern president Beckenbauer criticized the whole team, which made Bayern's stars embarrassed. Bei Huang said the following to Effenberg, Kahn and Salihamidzic: "Today's game was embarrassing. We don't play football, Lyon plays football. We're not playing football, we're watching, we're playing football without a soul. That's not football, that's the football that Uwe Schiller used to play, the football of the old men. I'm sorry I have to say that, but that's the way it is. That season, Bayern won the Champions League.
However, with the arrival of the new sporting director Eber, the problem of "Bayern's top management does not understand football" mentioned by Mateus may be solved to a certain extent. Not only because of Ebel's successful track record, but also because of his Bayern roots. Mateus misses football managers who "know the business and have the right pedigree", such as Rohrfes now at Bayer Leverkusen, "who made history for the club as captain." As a player, you look the other way you can see people like that, and that's just the way it is. They know how important it is that everyone wants to move in the same direction. ”
Ebel's Biography:
Born in 1973, Bavarian.
From 1979 to 1994, he participated in the youth academy at Bayern Munich, and was selected for the German youth team at all levels, and the only Bundesliga game he played for Bayern as a player was a 2-3 loss to Stuttgart. He has played for Bochum, Fürth and Borussia Mönchenchen, and has spent most of his career at Borussia Mönchenchen.
In 2005, Ebel started working at the Monchen Academy and worked his way up to the forefront. In October 2008, he succeeded Zieger as Sporting Director at Borussia Mönchenchen and became the club's Athletic President in the summer of 2010, a position he held until the end of January 2022. Borussia Mönchenchen went from relegation to the Champions League, and Ebel contributed a lot.
After a break of almost a year, Ebel moved to RB Leipzig, where he worked for less than a year before the club ended his partnership on the grounds of "lack of identification with the team".