Overview
- On Monday May 25 Uli Hoeneß told Spiegel and spoke on Sky that Eberl’s chances of staying at Bayern beyond 2027 were “60:40,” comments that surfaced just hours before the Pokal final in Berlin.
- Max Eberl responded after the match in the stadium corridors by calling Hoeneß’s timing inappropriate, saying he could leave if the club no longer wanted him and defending his record.
- Eberl pointed to a concrete achievement in his defence: he pushed for and helped secure Vincent Kompany’s early contract extension last October, which Bayern sources say reduced the risk of Kompany being poached by Manchester City.
- Bayern has not moved to dismiss Eberl and will formally evaluate his performance at the supervisory board meeting in August, making the situation an institutional review rather than an immediate sacking.
- Commentators link the episode to a wider pattern of fraught internal politics at Bayern that has shortened high-profile tenures in recent years and may discourage former players from taking executive roles.