Lothar Matthaüs is not afraid to speak his mind when it comes to footballing affairs, especially if it involves his old club Bayern Munich. Unfortunately for him, someone is able to match or even surpass him in that regard. That someone is Uli Hoeneß, who has targeted the 61-year-old former player for his comments on Bayern’s transfer business and gave him an earful:
If I have to read Lothar Matthäus’ nonsense every day, it’s starting to get on my nerves. I’m sure we will have a team that can win the title. If our players play the football that Bayern Munich can play and don’t lose after going 2-0 up like in Heidenheim and Hoffenheim, then things will be different next year.
– As captured by Twitter account @iMiaSanMia
The 72-year-old also refuted having a spoken “word of authority” that new players would only be signed if players are sold. “That’s total nonsense. That’s exactly what the Bild newspaper is. I did not speak out in authority. I announced what the supervisory board of FC Bayern had decided. And all of you, including Lothar Matthäus, cannot read. And cannot listen,” Hoeneß said (via @iMiaSanMia).
“There’s a resolution by the supervisory board that says: We have spent €125m, and for new players to come after that, players have to be sold first. I communicated that. And it’s not my dictum, but the dictum of the supervisory board in its entirety. And you must learn, learn to listen and to write the truth. This is a very, very big problem for you, year in, year out. I don’t want to say anything more about that.”
For context, Hoeneß was referring to Lothar’s most recent statement on Sport Bild: “Just as Uli Hoeneß made Kane more expensive a year ago with his statements about Tottenham, he’s now making his own players cheaper with his public statements about player sales.”
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