The German side have not considered sacking coach Niko Kovac, according to the club’s sporting director <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic insisted the Bundesliga giants have\u00a0not considered replacing coach Niko Kovac.<\/p>\n
Kovac has been under enormous pressure at Bayern, but a 5-1 thrashing of Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday is sure to ease the talk surrounding the Croatian’s future.<\/p>\n
Salihamidzic said the club had given no thought to appointing another coach, despite sitting fifth in the Bundesliga, nine points adrift of leaders Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Asked if he has been in contact with Arsene Wenger regarding a potentual job, Salhiamidzic offered a clear denial.<\/p>\n “No,” the sporting director said. “100 per cent. No.”<\/p>\n “No, we have not (contacted any coaches),” he added. “We did not think about whether we would hire another coach.”<\/p>\n A 3-3 draw at home to Fortuna Dusseldorf on Saturday further piled the pressure on\u00a0Kovac, with Bayern president Uli Hoeness saying talks would be held after the Benfica clash.<\/p>\n But after braces from Arjen Robben and Robert Lewandowski and a further strike from Franck Ribery, Salihamidzic expects those talks to be straightforward, adding that “the game has spoken for itself”.<\/p>\n “We said that we will talk after the game and the conversation will certainly be very pleasant,” he said.<\/p>\n While Bayern are into the last 16 from Group E, they need to avoid defeat against Ajax on the final matchday to seal top spot.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The German side have not considered sacking coach Niko Kovac, according to the club’s sporting director Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic insisted the Bundesliga giants have\u00a0not considered replacing coach Niko Kovac. Kovac has been under enormous pressure at Bayern, but a 5-1 thrashing of Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday is sure to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n