“I specially brought it from home”: Thomas Tuchel brings a suitcase to a match and jokes about his future departure from Bayern Munich

Thomas Tuchel… on a suitcase. dpa – Tom Weller

We knew Marcelo Bielsa's cooler, there is now Thomas Tuchel's suitcase: on his departure at the end of the season, the Bayern Munich coach spent part of the match against Leipzig on a suitcase, Saturday February 24.

After a negative series and a German championship title which was considerably further away for Bayern, the leaders of the Bavarian club and Thomas Tuchel decided to shorten the number 39;a "mutual agreement" the contract of the Munich technician for one year, with an end scheduled for June 30, 2024.

For the match against RB Leipzig at Munich's Allianz Arena, Thomas Tuchel often sat on a metal suitcase, ostensibly placed in his coaching area .

"There's my stuff inside"

A suitcase for departure? "Yes, it was thought like that. I specially brought it from home. It's an aluminum suitcase, there are my things inside, they're all already packed,” said Thomas Tuchel with a bit of irony at a press conference.

Bayern is eight points behind Bayer Leverkusen (53 against 61) eleven days from the end of the season. In the Champions League, he lost 1-0 in Rome against Lazio and will have to reverse the trend at home on March 5 to hope to see the quarter-finals.