Thomas Tuchel might want Manchester United but it remains to be seen if United would want him

If Manchester United think they have it bad with the press they should see how it is at Bayern Munich.

On Monday morning, the headlines on Bild read, 'Tuchel dismantles his Bayern stars', 'After this Bayern embarrassment Tuchel is hiding his hopefuls', 'Now Tuchel also has fan anger!', 'Bayern has a Goretzka problem', 'Crazy 47-month streak broken by Bayern!', 'Muller suddenly breaks off the interview!'

You may have guessed by now that Bayern lost at the weekend. Werder Bremen won 1-0 at the Allianz Arena and Bayern are now seven points adrift of Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen, bidding to end Bayern's 11-year monopoly.

Visitors to the Säbener Strasse training ground on Monday hoping for a peek behind the curtain will have found them drawn. Bayern stewards erected shields to block spectators from watching the session.

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Bild described Bayern as a "completely sleepy team" against Werder, 13th in the Bundesliga table. Bayern have only lost twice in the league this season and have a game in hand on Leverkusen. The standards are so sky-high they are held to account if they waver. Bayern wouldn't have it any other way.

"We didn't play for 70 minutes like a team that wanted to force a win, that was playing for the championship, that wanted to give an answer," Tuchel said. "We only did this for 20 minutes.

"Twenty minutes are not enough to achieve the goals we set ourselves. That's not what we're signing up for here." Tuchel also criticised the moribund atmosphere as Bayern mourned the death of Franz Beckenbauer, hence the "fan anger".

After a 5-1 thumping by