THE FUSE

"I think Max has opened up more within the club over the past six months. All of us - Karl-Heinz and I, and of course Herbert Hainer too - have been kept much better informed by him about everything than was previously the case," Hoeneß said on Monday evening at a gala marking the 80th anniversary of FC Bayern's basketball department. Like president Herbert Hainer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Hoeneß sits on the powerful supervisory board at the Munich club.