Manuel Neuer can not be Bayern Munich captain amid the continuing saga surrounding goalkeeper criticism of the membership, says Germany star Lothar Matthaus.

Germany veteran Neuer is out for the remainder of the season after a weird snowboarding damage he picked up in the course of the post-World Cup break, signing Jan Sommer from Borussia Monchengladbach as an alternative.

The arrival of the Swiss worldwide Sommer coincided with the sacking of Bayern’s long-term goalkeeping coach Toni Tabalovic, a transfer criticized by Neuer in an interview with Athletic.

His feedback sparked a backlash, together with from coach Julian Nagelsmann, and Germany’s most capped participant, Matthaus, additionally added his voice to the refrain of disapproval.

“Manuel Neuer is not accepted as Bayern’s captain,” he wrote in a column for Sky Sport Germany. “He is carelessly skated and now he is hitting the membership arduous. Did not he say just a few weeks in the past no person was above the membership?”

“He is the icon of world soccer, and he is one of many best gamers to have performed for Bayern Munich and Germany. I used to be his greatest fan, but it surely’s his fault, the snowboarding accident and that interview.

“He did a disservice to his membership, and so they have to put off his irrevocable dismissal for months, maybe without end, and proceed to pay him his exorbitant wage.

“Bayern had been extra loyal to Neuer than another participant. Serge Gnabry was publicly thrown into hell and Manuel by no means mentioned a nasty phrase to the surface world.

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“Bayern ought to have signed Jan Sommer for some huge cash and now [they] You must learn that they had been snatched [Neuer’s] coronary heart.”

And within the absence of Neuer, Bayern defeated Wolfsburg on Sunday, with a 4-2 victory, to leap coach Nagelsmann’s workforce over its surprising rival, Union Berlin, on the high of the Bundesliga.