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“I have a contract until 2019,” Ancelotti recently said about his future.
“The criticism has gone beyond its limits. I am used to being criticised, but to be frank, this is too much!”
German daily Bild are already convinced Bayern have Hoffenheim’s 30-year-old coach Julian Nagelsmann lined up as a possible replacement.
Ancelotti was recruited to great fanfare when he took charge last year after Pep Guardiola left to coach Manchester City.
– ‘Step backwards’ –
Guardiola’s frantic urging and marshalling of his players was juxtaposed by Ancelotti’s calm observations from the sidelines.
Under Guardiola, Bayern reached the Champions League semi-finals for three years running, but under Ancelotti they bowed out in the quarter-finals to Real Madrid last season.
Ex-Bayern and Germany star Paul Breitner has been Ancelotti’s biggest critic.
“I miss the chaos and craziness, like under Pep Guardiola,” said Breitner on a recent talk show.
“Carlo Ancelotti has not let the team develop. I haven’t seen any movement, it’s all static and the team has taken at least a step backwards.”
Nagelsmann took Hoffenheim to the brink of a place in the Champions League group stage recently and won the award as Germany’s coach of the year.
He let slip in a Bild interview that Bayern “play a big role in (his) dreams”, while Ancelotti has had to laugh off reports of a possible move to China.
And so the drama rumbles on at ‘FC Hollywood’, where Ancelotti may well be replaced unless he sates Bayern’s unquenchable thirst for silverware.
