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Joachim Low will step down as coach of the national team after Euro 2020, but it seems that the Bayern manager will not take over
Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says Hansi Flick will not replace Joachim Low as coach of the German national team.
Low is set to retire from his post after Euro 2020, ending a successful 15-year tenure that brought World Cup glory in 2014.
Flick has been in his own coaching career for less than two years but, after winning a historic six-times with Bayern, he has been considered one of the leading candidates for the job.
What has been said?
Speaking after Bayern thrashed Stuttgart 4-1 to go four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, Rummenigge said World sunday: “Said [Flick] that we are very satisfied with it.
“We are well advised to finish what we have agreed to in the contract. I told Hansi that in no uncertain terms. “
Flick’s contract with Bayern runs until 2023 and Rummenigge says the coach’s tenure in his post “has nothing to do with probability. That is a fact.”
He also said that the German FA (DFB) does not want to talk to a coach who already has a contract.
“President Fritz Keller confirmed it to me in a phone call this week,” Rummenigge added.
If true, this would also rule out players like Jurgen Klopp and Julian Nagelsmann.
Who is the favorite to be Germany’s next manager?
While Flick, Klopp and Nagelsmann have been the highest-profile names linked to the job, it seems likely that none of the three will take on the role at this stage.
Both Klopp and Nagelsmann have declared their intentions to remain with their current clubs for the foreseeable future.
The current favorite for the position is Ralf Rangnick, the experienced former Leipzig and Schalke coach who most recently served as director of sport and development at Red Bull clubs. Rangnick has also had talks with Schalke about his return to the club as sporting director.
