Kahn, who took over the position in 2021 succeeding Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, will be replaced by Jan-Christian Dreesen with immediate effect, the club said in a statement.
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“Oligarchs will definitely not play a role with us. They never have and they never will,” Kahn said on Thursday.
Kahn was following the line previously voiced by club president Herbert Hainer when he told Friday’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Lewandowski “will also still score 30-40 goals for a couple of years.”
Okocha would later go on to play for Paris-Saint-Germain, in England’s Premier League with Bolton Wanderers, and win Olympic Gold with Nigeria. But on that August evening in 1993, he was just a season into his Frankfurt career, still 23 and somewhat under the radar.
Kimmich, 26, officially joined Bayern from VfB Stuttgart in summer 2015, following a successful loan spell at RB Leipzig.
The 65-year-old was supposed to be replaced by former Bayern goalkeeper, Oliver Kahn, at the end of the year, but the Bild paper and the Kicker magazine said it was felt now was a better time to hand over to Kahn, who has been a member of the club’s board since January 2020.
The coronavirus pandemic has delayed him putting pen to paper on the contract that runs until 2023 but it is now official.
The appointment of Kahn, who played for Bayern from 1994 until 2008, was approved by Bayern’s board late on Thursday, just hours after club president Uli Hoeness, 67, officially informed the club that he is stepping down in November.