Nagelsmann: At some point it's time to do something new

Also financially, the white Julian Nagelsmann of course, a semi-final feed in the Champions League would have been lucrative. Especially after two pandemic years, which complicate the actions on the transfer market for FC Bayern.

"I do not make the cadring planning public," said Nagelsmann on Good Friday, two days before the away game in Bielefeld. "We certainly have a few construction sites; a squad that takes a long time." This is on the one hand a very good factor for processes, for the climate, "Nevertheless, it is sometime when you were so successful, even time to do something new."

It is clear that Niklas Sule (Dortmund) and Corentin Tolisso (destination unknown) will leave the club free shipping. From Ajax Ryan Gravenberch (midfielder) and Noussair Mazraoui (right defender, contract runs out) come, with a gentle central defender such as Freiburg Nico Schlotterbeck. "We do not have the scope we needed to go very big steps," says Nagelsmann. "It's a process that you can see over the last two years."

The "not quite simple" situation is made more difficult by the 2023 contracts of Robert Lewandowski, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller and Serge Gnabry. "We are there", insured Nagelsmann, "but not more than on it."

"The stupid is that you have to wait a year"

For the first there is "a bit of Tristesse" after the unexpected road against Villarreal. "The stupid is that you have to wait a year on the next chance in the kindness. That's a bit hard, if you get that in mind. You have to think about a year's time, which did not go so well, it does not matter So pleasant. "

The order for the rest of the season has now become quite simple: "Ideally, the next two games win to clarify the championship. This is our job first." Because, "We continue to get money. For the money we get, we have to deliver work. If we win against Dortmund on Sunday in Bielefeld and on Saturday night, we are masters."

But what flaps between the lines at the Bayern coach: So really pleasure, though it will become his first championship title, probably not arise, but the Blamable Cup in Gladbach and the missed semifinals in the premier class weigh too heavy. More aptly, Nagelsann says, even if he packs it in quotation marks that the part with the shell would be "done" soon. A fragment point on the to-do list.