The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills-Chapter 92 - 43: Topping the Charts! Not for Sale! He’s Klopp’s Treasure! While Being Slaughtered by Bayern
After scoring, Luca Tony ran wildly around the field, roaring as he celebrated his goal and vented all the frustration and anger he had been feeling lately.
Klinsmann, not content with a one-goal lead, immediately made a substitution.
Podolski came on for Klose.
Less than four minutes after coming on, Podolski made a breakthrough in the attacking third and sent a brilliant pass forward. Ze Roberto controlled it, dribbled past a defender, and set up Luca Tony, who blasted the ball from near the penalty spot, piercing Mainz's goal yet again.
2-0!
In less than eight minutes, Bayern had scored two goals in a row!
Up on the front line, Wang Shuo was a bit dumbfounded.
This was the terrifying strength of Bayern!
The moment you thought you could fight them on equal footing was precisely when you were in the most danger.
During halftime, everyone from Klopp to the Mainz players believed that if they continued their first-half performance, they could hold out until after the 60-minute mark.
They even thought that if the players gritted their teeth, holding on until the 70th minute shouldn't be a problem.
But what was the reality?
Their goal was breached in the 52nd minute, and they conceded another in the 59th.
Klopp immediately made a substitution.
Gunkel came on for Helle.
Kalhan moved to the right wing to keep an eye on Lahm's side.
But this still couldn't stop the team's decline.
In the 66th minute, it was Ze Roberto again who used his individual skill to deliver a brilliant pass.
Luca Tony, who had already scored twice, overpowered Subotic and headed the ball back to the center.
Podolski scored with a sliding shot in front of the goal.
3-0!
The entire Bruch Road Stadium fell dead silent.
The 20,000 Mainz fans watched as their team was cruelly slaughtered by Bayern, yet they couldn't make a single sound.
It was just too fast!
'Weren't we fighting them on equal footing in the first half?'
'How did the situation change so suddenly in the second half?'
In the past, whenever the team performed poorly, Klopp would walk back to the coach's bench in disappointment.
But this time, he remained standing on the sideline.
The expression on the "German boxer's" face was grim and full of pain.
Only after scoring three consecutive goals did Bayern finally ease up on their attack.
They had had their fun.
Meanwhile, Mainz was in complete shambles.
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"That fellow Klopp is like the reckless and witless Daring Charlie, trying to use his Burgundy Knights' bodies of flesh and blood to challenge the iron tide of the Swiss Pike Formation."
"It's utterly foolish!"
In front of the visiting team's dugout, Bayern's head coach Klinsmann watched the situation on the field and smiled calmly.
"Indeed. His style of football is completely unsuited for Bayern."
The assistant coach, Niko Seslov, was a bald man from the United States who had followed Klinsmann from his time coaching the Germany National Team.
"Although Hennes publicly stated that Bayern didn't choose Klopp because he didn't wear a suit, had a full beard, and looked a bit scruffy, we all know that's not the real reason."
"The higher-ups at Bayern know full well that even if Klopp came to Allianz Arena, he wouldn't be able to manage these superstars and get them to obediently play their hearts out like the Mainz players do."
The corners of Klinsmann's mouth lifted slightly. In a tone only he could hear, he muttered, 'He thinks he can obtain what even I cannot?'
At this thought, the "Golden Bomber" turned his head and looked toward the chairman's box in the Bruch Road Stadium behind him.
Bayern's General Manager, Hennes, was personally overseeing this away game today!
Klinsmann knew very well that this was meant to put pressure on him.
This kind of struggle between the head coach and the top brass had been going on since the very first day Klinsmann took the job.
Bayern had always been reluctant in their appointment of Klinsmann.
But they had no choice. Klinsmann had leveraged the immense influence generated by the World Cup hosted in Germany to push himself into the position of Bayern's head coach.
Rummenigge and Hennes had to just hold their noses and accept it!
What did Klinsmann want?
It was simple. He wanted to become the second Beckenbauer!
As a former center-forward, composure and rationality were Klinsmann's strengths.
He knew exactly how to reach the same heights as Beckenbauer.
The Germany National Team and Bayern Munich were the two key instruments to achieve his goal.
The former, he already had in his grasp.
The current head coach, Lővér, was his former assistant, and the core staff were still his people.
Many people didn't know that from the first day he took over the Germany National Team, Klinsmann had been constantly fighting.
From reforming the national team and selecting the player roster to changing training methods and tactical styles...
Klinsmann was always reforming, always changing.
And through these changes, he seized more and more power.
He made Bierhoff the team manager, stripped the captain's armband from Kahn and gave it to Ballack, and even under pressure from the likes of Rummenigge, Hennes, and Beckenbauer, he still gave the starting goalkeeper position to Seaman...
Everything was a struggle!
And he had won!
He got what he wanted.
Now, he was like the power behind the throne to Lővér.
So, he came to Bayern.
'Bayern doesn't have a tradition of giving head coaches transfer authority? Unwilling to accept Klinsmann's reforms?'
'No problem. Just keep fighting!'
'As long as I win the fight, I'll get everything!'
'Klopp?'
'A player who's never played in the Bundesliga in his entire life—what does he know about the game of internal power struggles at Bayern?'
'Him, coaching Bayern?'
'Could he really win against those three old foxes in Bayern's upper management?'
'Or could he make superstars like Ribery, Luke Tony, and Lahm obediently listen to him and run nonstop on the pitch?'
