Thomas Muller is set to bring his Bayern Munich career to an end once the 2024/25 campaign concludes.
The German star is out of contract with the Bavarian outfit at the end of the season and it has been decided that the 35-year-old will not renew his deal, which will bring an end to his 17-year career with the Bundesliga leaders.
Muller is a living Bayern Munich legend having featured 748 times for the German side, scoring 248 goals and providing a further 274 assists for his teammates.
148 of those games were coached by Pep Guardiola and despite having worked with some of the best managers in the sport, the German has now heaped praise on the Man City boss as his career in Munich draws closer to its end.
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Thomas Muller says Pep Guardiola changed German football
Guardiola spent three years with Bayern Munich, winning the Bundesliga every year he was at the club, in addition to two DFB-Pokals.
More importantly, the Spanish coach changed the way Germany viewed football, and it is reasons such as this why many managers think Guardiola is the greatest of all time in his field.
Muller is the latest to heap praise on the Man City coach with the Bayern Munich star telling Bundesliga.com that the Spaniard changed German football during his time at the Allianz Arena and that working under the 54-year-old was one of the most exciting periods of his career.
“Then, of course, with Jupp Heynckes, we were extremely successful, winning the Champions League and the treble in 2013,” Muller began by saying.
“Then with Pep Guardiola, a coach who was there for three years and who, of course, shaped German football, the Bundesliga and the club back then. In those six or seven years, we established ourselves in the European elite, you have to say that. That phase was just incredibly exciting for me as a player.”
The praise for Guardiola did not stop there as Muller would also go on to reveal what Bayern Munich has been like since the Man City boss left for the Etihad Stadium in 2016.
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What has Bayern Munich been like since Pep Guardiola left
Muller is clearly a fan of Guardiola as the German star has admitted in the past that he loves to watch Man City games, although he would prefer to attend a match at Anfield to watch Liverpool play live.
Speaking to Bundesliga.com, the 35-year-old also stated that Bayern Munich has not been the same since Guardiola left, declaring that no coach-squad combination has really clicked since the Spaniard was in charge.
“I think it’s a season of new beginnings, in the right direction,” Muller said about the current campaign. “You have to admit we’ve been through various transitional periods, at least that’s how it feels.
“Since Pep Guardiola, no coach-squad combination has really clicked. Sure, you have to acknowledge that with Hansi Flick we had very successful times, but even then, there was some friction between the coach and the club management.”
This says it all about the legacy Guardiola has left at every club he has coached, as it is quite remarkable that a player from a club as big as Bayern Munich still feels the need to praise the Man City boss nine years after he left the Bavarian giants.
