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<\/a>Triple again for FC Bayern?<\/p><\/div>\n
I am sitting in Madrid writing these lines, and an appointment for the preliminary reports on the big Champions League match against Real Madrid next week. After all, it is time to concentrate just on football again. But before we could do this, there were a few important questions about Bayern\u2019s future which needed answering.<\/p>\n
At the end of March, I flew to Berlin along with the national team after playing Spain in Dusseldorf. There\u2019s three days until the match against Brazil in the Olympic Stadium. I have my week\u2019s holiday in Amsterdam in sight when I receive confirmation of this week\u2019s investigation: Thomas Tuchel has refused Bayern\u2019s offer!<\/p>\n
My first thought: Will I wait to first publish the news in SPORT BILD magazine on Wednesday? Too big a story, too important, too many people involved \u2013 those are my thoughts in this moment and it\u2019s obvious. We have to publish it immediately! Luckily, our publisher has many magazines, so stories can be published very quickly. Sitting in the sun, I have a beer at the \u201cGendarmenmarkt\u201c and finish eating my Currywurst. Immediately after I head to Springer HQ in Berlin. There is no doubt: The Tuchel story has to be in \u201cBILD am Sonntag.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a>“Bild am Sonntag”,\u00a0Axel-Springer-Haus; Berlin<\/p><\/div>\n
The lead is written very quickly and it has to be because BAMS will soon go to print. But in our digitalized world that wasn\u2019t the end of the day. At 10pm we want to report about it. To wait for this moment is literally hell for reporters. Is the story still going to be an exclusive? Are any other newspapers going to break the story before us? I decide to go to a concert to think about other things. On his way home, my colleague Walter drives to a Berlin nightclub, called \u201cGretchen\u201c, where Amy Shark is playing that evening. Then I wait at the bar. The mostly unknown Australian Indie singer gives an encore with her hit \u201cAdore\u201c, when I click on the button of my IPhone display. It was exactly 10pm, when I tweeted: Tuchel turns down Bayern+++ He will move to an international top club +++ After that I order my last beer (a Bavarian one!), as the venue gets emptier and emptier.<\/p>\n
As you can imagine, the next few days are very turbulent. The next morning, I do a live video chat with \u201cDoppelpass\u201c TV program on this breaking news. Right after that I have an appointment for an interview in the German team hotel Hyatt. My interview partner was a good fit for this moment. Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Kevin Trapp –Tuchel\u2019s next club. Of course, we talk about the German coach and a Sport Bild background story on Tuchel has to be written by Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Tuesday is matchday: Germany against Brazil. As a sports reporter you are allowed to fulfill some crazy ideas. Two weeks ago, during my time in Liverpool, I sang the \u201cSalah! Man\u00e9! Man\u00e9!\u201c-song together with Sadio Man\u00e9 and put it on all our channels and even YouTube. There is a line which says \u201cBut we sold Coutinho\u201cand that\u2019s not so bad because of the Salah, Man\u00e9 and Firmino trio. After the Brazil match I showed Coutinho the video, but he wasn\u2019t too impressed by the song (although they have just won 1:0). Filmed by a colleague, Coutinho walks quickly past me. On YouTube I get 300,000 views for his reaction. The furious 3:0 victory of Klopp\u2019s Liverpool-trio (without Coutinho) over Manchester City with Pep Guardiola, I will see during my Amsterdam vacation in a pub\u2026<\/p>\n