According to "Kickers", former Bayern Munich Chairman Rummenigge was interviewed and talked about the process of Bayern's invitation to coach Guardiola that year.

Rummenigge said: "Bayern won the triple-champion in 2012-2013, and Uli Henes and I were happy for (Bayern then coach) Heinkes, because in January 2013, I had to undertake an unpleasant task -- Tell Heinx that "Guardiola is about to replace him", of course Heinx never really accepted this. "

" Bayern signed Guardiola without any news, because we kept the news tightly. I told the then Bayern sports director Matthias Summer very late. You can imagine that this is a model of confidentiality work. At that time, Carl Hopfner and I prepared everything together before Uli Heness joined in. "

Rumenig continued: "Low before Christmas 2012, we had a contract (with Guardiola). Someone of us had to fly to New York to get Guardiola to sign the contract. Uli Henes said he would be in Chicago in the second week, and it was very convenient to leave from there. I told him that I must call me when I met Guardiola. When I received the call from Uli Henes, I was in a bar. To prevent anyone from eavesdropping, I just wore a thin coat and ran outside with my phone. —— It was cold and cold. I wanted to keep the signing secret until the last moment. Then Henes and Guardiola told me that it was time to order a glass of champagne to celebrate, because everything was done, I did it. "

Rummeniger finally said, "Anyway, we arranged a farewell for Heinx that deserved him, which made us very happy. Heinx loved Bayern Munich deeply and brought us brilliant achievements, and we were grateful to him."