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Options to replace Tuchel are running thin at the moment. Bayern Munich still do not have a Thomas Tuchel replacement lined up for after this season and the candidate?s list is getting smaller and smaller as the season dwindles down to an end. All signs were pointing towards Bayern agreeing an exit fee with the OFB to break Ralf Rangnick from his contract as Austrian national team manager, but after intensive discussions with the governing board for the national team, the former Bundesliga and Manchester United interim manager has decided to stay at the helm for Austria for the time being.
This comes as yet another blow for Bayern in their search for a new manager after Julian Nagelsmann was the favorite for board member for sport Max Eberl and sporting director Christoph Freund. They both very much liked the idea of the former Bayern, RB Leipzig and Hoffenheim manager making a return to the Rekordmeister, but he has signed an extension with the DFB that will see him remain German national team manager through World Cup 2026. Other names have been mentioned in the conversation with Bayern to replace Tuchel, but nothing has gotten more advanced than it had for either Nagelsmann or Rangnick. Unai Emery, Zinedine Zidane, Antonio Conte, Jose Mourinho, and Arne Slot had all been linked with Bayern at one point or another, but all of said links were just rumors and nothing more than that.
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