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Original Title: Ancelotti on his time at Bayern “Whenever things got heated, I noticed a big difference in this job. There was a group of shareholders, while legendary former players held sway at the management level. So I had to report to several important people, it was difficult to see who had more power.”
“We outpaced the competition in the Bundesliga in my first season, finishing fifteen points ahead—five points more than Pep had put between his team and second place in the previous two seasons. However, Bayern didn’t consider this a success. It was the least they expected.”
“Once, the bosses asked me to instill more discipline among the players and gave me a list of five points to read out to them. However, I felt that we were dealing with a top-class professional team, not a youth team, so the players should be treated accordingly. So I stood in front of the team in the locker room, pulled the piece of paper out of my pocket, and said, ‘I have orders from the board to read this list to you.’ That was my way of distancing myself from this task.”