The former Germany star has criticised the club’s big-name players and the hierarchy after a run of four games without a win and defended their coach <\/p>\n
Lothar Matthaus has backed under-fire Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac – and slammed the German giants’ star players and hierarchy.<\/p>\n
Bayern have not won in four games and were beaten 3-0 at home by Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Club legend Matthaus admitted that\u00a0performance was one of Bayern’s ‘worst in years’ – but says they are paying the price for\u00a0failing to rejuvenate\u00a0an ageing squad, rather than blaming Croatian Kovac.<\/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 Bayern have slipped to sixth in the Bundesliga and Matthaus told Blick <\/em> : “Many players have been awarded new contracts and Bayern ignored exciting talents in the transfer market.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I can’t\u00a0understand it. Bayern had nine players in the field on Saturday, who played in the Champions League final in 2013.”<\/p>\n Former Bayern midfielder Kovac, 46, only succeeded\u00a0Jupp Heynckes in the summer and, despite a run of seven wins at the start of the season, has seen his side struggle in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Club president Uli Hoeness has suggested Kovac is \u2018putting his neck on the line\u2019 due to his rotation policy – but Matthaus, who played for Bayern in two spells between 1984 and 2000, is behind the former Croatia and Eintracht Frankfurt boss.<\/p>\n “He’s an ambitious guy with a plan,” he added. “He is the right man to turn things around. The responsibility is more club management and players.”<\/p>\n And he singled out star names such as James Rodriguez, Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery for criticism.<\/p>\n “Players like James and Lewandowski, Robben and Ribery – some stars are selfish and disrespectful to coaches, club\u00a0and team-mates. This must stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Uli Hoeness has to give up sayings like that.\u00a0He and [sports director] Hasan Salihamidzic need to make it clear to players that they need to change their negative body language.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former Germany star has criticised the club’s big-name players and the hierarchy after a run of four games without a win and defended their coach Lothar Matthaus has backed under-fire Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac – and slammed the German giants’ star players and hierarchy. Bayern have not won in four games and were…<\/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-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n