Time makes it clear where you are going

Time is very flexible! Brighton and Hove Albion have shocked the football world by announcing that manager Roberto de Zerbi will leave the club at the end of the season. With only a home game against Manchester United remaining, De Zerbi will end a very successful spell which has seen him the apple of the eye of European clubs.

However, as mentioned in the first line, time is very simple. A day after Thomas Tuchel announced that he would not make a U-turn and stay at Bayern Munich, De Zerbi's departure was announced.

So, is De Zerbi Bayern under arrest?

Roberto de Zerbi-Bayern Munich makes sense

The Italian has been tipped for every major European job that has or should have come up in the summer. From Manchester United to Chelsea, Barcelona, ​​and Bayern Munich, De Zerbi was a hot name.

However, he has always insisted that he is focused on the project at hand and loves being in Brighton. However, it seems that the lure of the European heavyweight proved to be too much.

Although no announcement has been made about his future team, it is not difficult to plot the sequence of events. Brighton is not doing badly at all, so his departure due to a lack of results is incongruous.

Therefore, it makes sense if De Zerbi made his wishes clear about leaving and Brighton, ready as ever, did not stand in his way.

Bayern is the perfect job for him in the current circumstances. After a search for a shy coach that, until recently, seemed to end with a return to Tuchel, De Zerbi will enter as a strong man.

The fact that Bayern have faced so many rejections in their pursuit means that any potential manager will have them singing their songs. De Zerbi is a strong character who seeks continuous improvement and ambition. The Bayern board will know that they are getting a fiery character who needs to be satisfied at all times.

The situation could not have been better for both, the manager and the team. For De Zerbi, the game is obvious. He enters the European heavyweight ranks, a reward for his overachievement with clubs like Sassuolo, Brighton, and Shakhtar. What's more, he's doing so with more power and prestige than he would have expected given the circumstances surrounding Bayern's head coach search.

At the club, it's a big find. De Zerbi was the crown jewel of the manager's transfer market and to end their search by putting such a name, just a day after Tuchel said there would be no extension, if the big movement of the optics.

Even on the pitch, De Zerbi will finally bring fresh ideas and a renewed drive to succeed as Bayern face a squad overhaul. Some veterans may leave and give the new man the support he needs.

This is, of course, all theory at the moment as the only thing confirmed is that De Zerbi has left Brighton, not that he has joined Bayern. But we will end it the way we started. Time is too simple to be automatic.