Salzburg (dpa) – Bayern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß considers a comeback of the long-time Gladbach sports director Max Eberl in professional football to be quite possible. “I’m very close friends with Max Eberl. I’m convinced he’s on vacation now. He’ll come back at some point and will continue to be able to do a good job,” said the 70-year-old Hoeneß on Monday evening in Salzburg on the “Sport and Talk” show from the Hangar-7″ on Servus TV.
The 48-year-old Eberl retired from his post at Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach at the end of January for health reasons. The reason was an exhaustion syndrome. “It’s a special situation, a lot of things came together,” said Hoeneß. Management jobs in football are “very nerve-wracking” and would also take “a lot of strength”, said Hoeneß, who has held various positions at FC for 40 years Bavaria coined: “But to say now, because it came together that it’s inhuman, that you can’t stand it, I don’t see it that way.”
For Hoeneß, there was a special constellation at Eberl: “Different things came together. Gladbach has always made a living from bringing players and selling them for a fee. Now they have found that three important contracts are expiring and they are not getting anything. Suddenly there was pressure that didn’t exist before. They used to play for the Champions League, now they have to look downstairs. All of that came together with Max.”
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