Champions League – Semi-finals: For Pep Guardiola, it is the hour of the verdict at Bayern Munich – The Équipe.fr

The legacy was heavy, while Bayern Munich bosses had chosen for his strong shoulders and the head. Recruited in 2013, for three years to take over from Jupp Heynckes, Pep Guardiola has failed (for now) to do as well as her senior party in Bavaria with a triple-Cup-League Championship champions.

the Catalan technician did his team an unstoppable machine Bundesliga and faithful during three years last four of the champions League, but without going beyond the last two seasons. This has become a problem throughout his tenure on the bench Munich, although the honorary president of Bayern Franz Beckenbauer tried before the quarter-final of the C1 side Benfica to soften a possible exit:

“To say that Guardiola would have failed, it would be totally exaggerated. In three years, he won three times the German Championship. This title is for me still the most important. “

Hear the” Kaiser “show tender with Guardiola fall almost irrational. Since the end of the first season of the technician, the former international defender has regularly displayed his displeasure. With the results, but especially to the face proposed by “his” club.

“We’ll end up looking like Barcelona and no one wants to see us play. It may annoy the fans. I have another vision of football. If I can pull away, so I do. This is an effective approach. “

That was even before the Bayern will not make eliminate semifinals of the champions League by Real Madrid, in spring 2014, after a double defeat without scoring and with a correction at home (1-0, 0-4). While the German newspaper Bild shows scathing ( “ In two games, Guardiola was ridiculed by tactically Carlo Ancelotti “), the chairman of the club board of directors, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, speaks of a “ debacle ” and a “ slap .” But he defended the first months of Catalan in Bavaria:

“Of course we suffered a heavy defeat, but do not jump to conclusions. We have a high quality coach. After so many shares acquired (in 2013), we could have run (this season) but this has not been the case, and thanks to Pep. “

After a another failure last year, this time against his former club, FC Barcelona, ​​a third consecutive Spanish club stands on his way to the final. On the threshold of this double appointment face Atletico Madrid, Guardiola knows that his time at Bayern will be judged – définitivement- its ability to take the Bavarian club above. In June 2015, without explicitly talking about the Champions League, Beckenbauer addressed a tackle finesse to the ex-midfield:

“Love is the most beautiful thing that ‘can we have. (Guardiola) will love the fans when he has won several trophies. If he does not win trophies, that love will just affection. “

In this Bavarian house so special, Guardiola had played the offensive, too, in spring 2014 to assume its responsibilities and assert power, “ the club must decide if the coach is the right ,” he explained by way of analysis, two days after the elimination against Real . “ The team must play with the ideas of the coach, he added. I can not talk to my players ideas which I do not think “

Mathias Sammer, a member of the Board in April 2014. ” There are too many swings of concentration and not enough group dynamics. We are too positive and too nice to each other. “

Next Weeks, chance or not, Rummennige done repeatedly praised his coach and ensures that Bayern “ never will Guardiola at the door .” But while the last three seasons Guardiola contract looming, the idea of ​​an extension is often avoided by those concerned.

Because “ it’s too early ” to or discuss because it is “ not a problem .” Especially because their common history is doomed to end. Beckenbauer willingly allows questioning the identity of a potential successor to Guardiola and, later, in the summer of 2015, Rummenigge primer assuming a start.

“We are very pleased with Pep and his work. If he wants to stay, that’s wonderful, if it does not it will not be the end of the world. “

A year and a half earlier, in early year 2014, the chairman of the Bayern board repeated that “ Guardiola was born to work (at the club). This is a great coach. We think it is a fantastic story he wrote. “remains to be seen if the last page will be blank.