After a complicated start to the season, Leroy Sané has been convincing in the Bayern jersey for weeks. How Karl-Heinz Rummenigge explains this change
With six goals and seven assists, Leroy Sané is one of the top scorers of this Bundesliga season. When he was first booed and then substituted against Cologne in August, that had not yet been foreseeable.
“What happened at the beginning of this season, with the whistles from the fans, the criticisms from the experts, was helpful,” said former chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur. “That was obviously a wake-up call for him along the lines of ‘I have to change things, and also fulfil the expectations of the club and the talent that the good Lord put in my cradle.’ Now he’s fulfilling them. “
“He had to get out of his comfort zone a little bit “
To do that, he had needed a bit of a run-up. “When we signed Leroy in 2020,” Rummenigge said, “we invested a lot of faith and a lot of money in him. He may have needed the first year. Not so much because of his cruciate ligament injury before. He had to get out of his comfort zone a bit. “
In the meantime, “the whole club is happy”, Sané, given a new role by coach Julian Nagelsmann, is too. “He has become a completely different player. He participates in the game in a completely different way,” Rummenigge said happily. “Last season he often led a wallflower existence at right wing. Now he wants the ball. Not only is he fast and a goal scorer, he is also a strong runner and helps out in defence. “
