Van Gaal Admits Tymoshchuk Is Not Needed At Bayern Munich

Tymoshchuk Has Failed To Impress With Bay­ern Munich And Could Be On His Way Out This Summer.

Bay­ern Munich’s head coach Louis Van Gaal has announced today that Ukrain­ian mid­fielder Ana­toliy Tymoschchuk could be on his way out of Bavaria this sum­mer. Van Gaal spoke to Kicker mag­a­zine in Ger­many about the mid­field sit­u­a­tion at Bay­ern Munich, and what could change this summer.

“In my opin­ion, a player should be allowed to leave the club if he doesn’t get a lot of play­ing time and the prospects aren’t any bet­ter. It doesn’t look too good for Tymoshchuk. Bas­t­ian Schwe­in­steiger is in the best form of his life, while Mark van Bom­mel is the club’s cap­tain. It will be very dif­fi­cult for Ana­toliy to break into the first team.”

Tymoshchuk played his way onto the Euro­pean stage with Shakhtar Donetsk, where he played for ten years. After impress­ing, he moved to Zenit St. Peters­burg where he cap­tained the side to UEFA Cup (now Europa League) and UEFA Super Cup suc­cess. His move to Bay­ern Munich was seen as many by a great move by the Bavar­ian giants, but Tymoshchuk has failed to impress dur­ing his time in Ger­many. The Ukrain­ian mid­fielder has also failed to start a sin­gle game in 2010.

Van Gaal has also spoke in the past about Edson Braafheid, Jose Sosa and Andreas Ottl being unwanted at Bay­ern Munich. The Dutch coach cer­tainly does like to speak his mind, which has been some­thing he has been crit­i­cized for in the past.