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Nagelsmann is the right choice but the Germany manager is paid too much | Philipp Lahm

12-Oct-2023 08:00:03 | The Guardian

The DFB should stand apart from the salary excesses in club football and bring the sport closer to the centre of society

Nine months before Euro 2024, Germany had to make a fresh start. Julian Nagelsmann has been handed the task of giving the team balance, stability, hierarchy, continuity, style and a face, as well as exploiting their enormous potential. It has lacked all of that recently. There is no shortage of time. Walid Regragui showed with Morocco at the World Cup in Qatar that good leaders can get it right in a few months.

Nagelsmann was the natural candidate for the vacancy, as he had been in previous posts. That he is extraordinarily talented has been known since he, not even 30 at the time, led Hoffenheim out of the relegation zone and into the Champions League. But he has not yet proved that he can develop a top team. At Leipzig he held his own, but the gap to Bayern Munich remained the same. In Munich he gained experience at the highest level. That may help him in his current job.