Bayern Munich president Herbert Hainer has been in his post for nearly five years at the time of writing, having taken over for the iconic Uli Hoeness. That was always going to be a difficult task, even for a former CEO of Adidas, but Hainer remains as president despite an overhaul at board level in recent years. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that he has never lost sight of the main goals of the club that are tantamount to success despite the hurdles the club will face in achieving them.
So what are these goals? Speaking to Abendzeitung, as captured by @iMiaSanMia, Hainer had this to say:
“FC Bayern must always remain FC Bayern. We must follow our FC Bayern path, without major investors like other top international clubs, to continue to compete at the top of Europe. Due to the constantly rising transfer fees and salaries, we will be relying even more on our FC Bayern Campus in the future, because it’s the mix that makes it – top stars like Manuel Neuer and Harry Kane with homegrown players like Aleks Pavlović – and Jamal Musiala , who has matured into an outstanding world-class player at FC Bayern. He makes us very happy, Hermann Gerland calls him a ‘talent of the century’. We are all now very much looking forward to our new coach Vincent Kompany, to new ideas and new impulses.”
On to new successes and to recapture the Bundesliga title, then.
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