Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal and club president Uli Hoeness have shaken hands and declared peace on the eve of the Champions League match against Cluj.
Bayern Munich can seal a spot in the second round if it wins on Wednesday - but the match had been overshadowed by the dispute between the Dutch coach and the president, who had described Van Gaal as someone who is difficult to talk to, who does not accept other people's opinions and who makes poor choices in his team selection.
A club statement late Tuesday said the club's board met with the coach shortly after the team's arrival in Romania and that Van Gaal and Hoeness ''shook hands and agreed to keep on working responsibly together for Bayern's benefit.''
The coach and the board had an ''open and thorough'' discussion and ''talked things out,'' agreeing to have such meetings more often in the future.
In his first reaction to the broadside from Hoeness, Van Gaal had said he was ''very astonished'' that the president of the club would say something like that ''at a difficult stage when we have nine injured players.''
''Someone so important for Bayern must be aware of the consequences of his comments,'' Van Gaal said.
Bayern's injury list seems to be growing by the day and Van Gaal will have to rely on second-string players to win its fourth straight Group E match. Bayern has never before won its first four group matches.
''I am also very disappointed that my president would say something like that about me, because I think one of my best qualities is communication,'' Van Gaal told German reporters after the team's arrival in Cluj.
Van Gaal, who recently extended his contract until 2012, declined to answer any other questions about the matter.
Bayern won the home match against Cluj 3-2 with the help of two own-goals by the Romanian club.
''We have to be alert,'' Bayern defender Philipp Lahm said. ''We saw how dangerous they can be if we are not 100 percent concentrated.''
Asked whether his team has any chance against Bayern, Cluj midfielder Juan Emmanuel Culio said, ''of course.''
''We must play, we must score and with some success we can win. We had a lot of bad luck at the last match, with Roma, when we could have won,'' Culio said. ''Bayern is certainly the favorite in the group ... and it's more than sure that it will come to Cluj to win, not just to visit.''
Bayern, last season's runner-up, leads the group with nine points from three matches, while the other three clubs all have three points. In the other match, FC Basel hosts Roma.
Bayern has been winning in the Champions League but at home it sits 10 points behind Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund.
Van Gaal's team beat Freiburg 4-2 on Friday, but that did not stop club president Hoeness delivering a stinging attack on Van Gaal on live television on Sunday.
Franz Beckenbauer, Bayern's honorary chairman, said Hoeness' intention was most likely to ''shake up the place a bit.''
The club's chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who has been mediating between the president and the coach, said Van Gaal was not pleased with Hoeness' remarks.
''The important thing, though, is that they stop talking about each other and start talking to each other,'' Rummenigge said.
In addition to Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Miroslav Klose and captain Mark van Bommel, Bayern has also lost forward Ivica Olic for six months to a knee injury and defender Holger Badstuber also won't play in Cluj because of a groin injury. Van Gaal has taken only 15 players to Romania.
In Basel, AS Roma will be without injured midfielders David Pizarro and Rodrigo Taddei, but captain Francesco Totti will want to leave his mark since he is suspended for Sunday's Rome derby with Serie A leader Lazio.
Basel beat Roma 3-1 in Italy two weeks ago, and hosts the return after going back to the top of the Swiss league.
The Swiss champions beat Bellinzona 3-1 on Saturday, helped by two goals from Australia midfielder Scott Chipperfield, despite resting several players expected to start against the Italians at St. Jakob Park.
Basel's excellent recent run has earned coach Thorsten Fink a new contract. The former Bayern Munich midfielder, who won a Champions League title with the German club in 2001, has been rewarded with an extension through 2013.
