Nagelsmann keeps his wife awake by shouting Bayern player names in his sleep

Julian Nagelsmann has revealed he gives his wife restless nights - by shouting out the names of his Bayern Munich players in his sleep.

The Bayern coach apparently finds it so hard to switch off from the day job that he often wakes wife Verena because he's still analysing his team's performances.

Nagelsmann, 34, told Bayern's '51' Magazine, via Bild: 'Sometimes when I'm sleeping after a game I call out the names of my players.

'My wife once told me that. Sometimes it wakes her up in the night.'

That's if Nagelsmann goes to bed at all. He often stays up late into the night after matches as it takes a long time to wind down from the stresses and strains of the 90 minutes.

The former Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig manager married his childhood sweetheart Verena, 35, back in 2018. They have two children together.

In the same magazine, Andrea Trinchieri, the coach of the Bayern basketball team, admitted he also has some strange nocturnal habits.

He said: 'I have a notebook next to my bed - and sometimes I find notes after the game that I didn't know I'd written down during the night.'

Nagelsmann will hope his Bayern side don't give him too many sleepless night between now and the end of the season.

They have won their last two Bundesliga games 4-0 at Cologne and 4-1 at Hertha Berlin to preserve their six-point advantage over Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table.

They host Nagelsmann's former club Leipzig this Saturday in their next match.

Bayern are already out of the German Cup but have a Champions League last-16 tie against Red Bull Salzburg to look forward to later this month.