Bayern Munich have denied reports that they are keen to bring in
Jose Mourinho for the new season if the Chelsea coach should decide
to quit his job at Stamford Bridge.
Since Felix Magath's successor Ottmar Hitzfeld announced this week
that he will only take care of the Bundesliga giants until the end
of the season, media reports in Germany and England claimed that
Mourinho could be Bayerns prime target to lead the struggling club
back to former glory.
Bayern's managing director Uli Hoeness has now angrily stressed
that reports suggesting that he had already started talks with
Mourinho's adviser Jorge Mendes are not true at all.
I neither called Mourinho nor his adviser or contacted them in any
way. If the adviser claims that I did, then he is lying. All these
speculations are simply not true, Hoeness fumed in Bild.
The defending Bundesliga champions sacked Magath last week and
replaced him with predecessor Hitzfeld, but their disappointing
season continued with a 3-0 defeat at Nurnberg which leaves the
club already 11 points behind leaders Schalke
Other names linked with Bayern include Lyons Gerard Houllier,
former Italy boss Marcello Lippi and Getafes German coach Bernd
Schuster.
