Tifo Talks: Bayern Munich's Reinvention under Julian Nagelsmann with Justin Kraft
Tifo Football Podcast
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Julian Nagelsmann is now in his second season at Bayern Munich. But the difference in approach between these two seasons couldn't have been starker. Jon Mackenzie is joined by Justin Kraft (@JustinKraft_) to look at the managerial context at Bayern Munich before turning to assess Nagelsmann's two seasons at the club from a tactical point of view.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode number four of the Tifo Talks podcast. That's right, a podcast mini-series |
| 0:09.2 | in which John McKenzie talks to whoever he wants. Who are you doing this week, John? |
| 0:15.3 | Well, I'm talking to you right now, Joe. |
| 0:16.9 | That is true, but who are you talking to in the bulk of this episode? |
| 0:20.4 | In the bulk of this episode? In the bulk of this |
| 0:21.2 | episode, I'm talking to Justin Kraft, who is a Bayan expert from Germany. Bion Munchen. Bion |
| 0:27.1 | indeed, yes. Very exciting. By Munich for the uninitiated. Yes. And what do you talk about? |
| 0:32.3 | We talk about basically the Julian Nagelsman era. We situated within the context of like the last decade. |
| 0:39.1 | So we start with Pep Guardiola and talk through some of the managerial decisions they've made. |
| 0:42.8 | But then we spend a lot of time looking at last season when Julian Nagelsman played the sort of |
| 0:47.1 | football we expect elite managers to play and then focused a little bit more on this season |
| 0:51.3 | where he started playing a very different play style. And when did you record it versus when does it go out? Is there a gap? Because I know Byron beat, who did they beat over the weekend? Oh, it was Freiburg. It was your team, wasn't it? They beat them 5-0, was it? It was 5-0. Yeah, and you recorded this before that happened. Yeah, we record. So if you're sounding extra bullish during the episode, it's because your team hadn't been |
| 0:54.2 | bested so badly by the... five years. Yeah. And you recorded this before that happened. Yeah. So if you're sounding extra bullish during the episode, it's because your team hadn't been |
| 1:13.3 | bested so badly by that point. |
| 1:15.6 | That's right. Yeah. We recorded this episode after the Leverkusen win. |
| 1:19.2 | They beat Leverkusen, a very good side, 4-0 as well. |
| 1:23.4 | As opposed to Freiburg, a very bad side. |
| 1:26.7 | I'm just trying to situate Freiburg amongst the very good side in Germany that lose to Bayern Munich. |
| 1:32.7 | Okay, well, a couple of big wins on the bounce, and we've recorded this episode. |
| 1:36.8 | Did you enjoy it? |
| 1:38.0 | Yes, I always enjoy talking about Bayern Munich. |
| 1:40.7 | What should listeners look out for specifically? |
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