Hansi Flick will walk away from Bayern Munich at the end of the 2020/21 season after an 18-month odyssey saw him go from interim boss to Champions League and treble-winning head coach.
Flick's bombshell announcement on Saturday that he wants to terminate his contract comes just eight months after Bayern beat Paris Saint-Germain in last season's Champions League final.
"It was important for me to tell the team, because we have worked together successfully for almost two years now," a tense-looking Flick said after a 3-2 win at Wolfsburg.
His drawn demeanour was a far cry from the intense celebrations in the Bayern camp after Flick, 56, masterminded a jaw-dropping 8-2 thrashing of Lionel Messi's Barcelona in last season's Champions League quarter-finals.
Under Flick, Bayern had already secured the Bundesliga and German Cup before their sixth triumph in Europe's premier tournament.
After winning the Champions League, Bayern swept up all before them, adding the German Super Cup and Uefa Super Cup, before lifting the Club World Cup title in Doha last February.
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