National coach Joachim Löw has decided not to consider our players Thomas Müller, Mats Hummels and Jérôme Boateng in the future. Basically, we do not comment on sporting decisions of the national coach, the nomination of the squad of the national team is solely the responsibility of Joachim Loew.
However, we believe the timing and circumstances of the announcement of this decision to the players and to the public for questionable. The last international match of the German national team took place on 19 November 2018. The fact that the players and the public were informed against FC Liverpool about three league months later, just ahead of landmark matches of FC Bayern next Saturday in the title fight of the Bundesliga against VfL Wolfsburg and a few days before the decisive return match in the round of 16 of the Champions League next Wednesday, irritates us. In addition, we were surprised that this was done yesterday in the context of an unannounced visit by Joachim Loew and Oliver Bierhoff (Director National Teams and Academy) at Bayern on the Säbener road.
Thomas Müller (100 caps), Mats Hummels (70) and Jérôme Boateng (76) have completed 246 internationals for the German national team, they have an extremely successful decade of the DFB coined by winning the world title in 2014 as absolute highlight. FC Bayern have great respect for the athletic merits of Thomas, Mats and Jerome for the national team and German football.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (CEO) & Hasan Salihamidzic (sports director).