Don't like to criticise but sometimes it wakes up players, coaches: Matthaus

In this interview, the German football great explains why Oliver Kahn didn't have the mentality to be Bayern CEO and why Tuchel will do well with England

- Dhiman Sarkar

Oliver Kahn was the wrong appointment. Hasan Salihamidzic did not have the stature. They replaced Julian Nagelsmann with Thomas Tuchel when it was not necessary. And Bayern Munich suffered.

Players, past and present, tend to stick to the straight and narrow during media interactions. Unless you are Mo Salah wanting to make your unhappiness public. Or, even at 63, Lothar Matthaus caring as much for convention as he did for Diego Maradona's reputation in the 1986 World Cup final.

"I do not like to criticise coaches and players but sometimes you have to do it, maybe to wake them up," he said in an interview to Hindustan Times before Saturday's Bundesliga clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich which will be telecast on Sony Sport 2.

Matthaus was explaining why he had spoken out against Nuri Sahin, the Dortmund manager. "He was being too nice. He liked to give all players a chance and was always changing the first 11. When a coach is new to a team, he has to find his first 13 or 14 players. The rest has to wait."