The Gittens “duck”
Max Eberl’s transfer goals are the same as the squaring of the circle
FC Bayern is under transfer printing: it takes a replacement for Sané, and at the same time expensive professionals should go. This is a challenge for sports director Max Eberl.
Max Eberl, sports director of FC Bayern, has a lot to do these days. The task is so challenging that the 51-year-old left Bayern team quarters at the club World Cup in the USA last week and flew back to Munich-apparently there is so much to do at home that even an experienced manager like Eberl cannot do the full work on the cell phone.
What makes Eberl’s task so exceptional in this transfer summer: it is like the squaring of the circle. Strictly speaking, the task cannot be mastered. But she’s never at Bayern.
Secret meeting with FC Bayern? “Absolute duck”
First of all, Eberl has to find a replacement for the Leroy Sané, which changes to Galatasaray Istanbul. FC Bayern needs a new wing striker of the quality of the international, it is best to have it cheaper. Most recently, hot rumors flourished around the Dortmund Jamie Gitten. He wanted to switch to Chelsea in London, then it was said that the deal had failed. Now the negotiations between the 20-year-old winger and the English club have been resumed.
This in turn is a problem for Eberl and Bayern, who should also be interested in the young wing striker. The “Ruhr” messages, usually well networked in the BVB cosmos, reported on Monday that a “secret meeting” between BVB managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke and Eberl took place in the Causa Gittens. This in turn was immediately denied by Watzke: “No. This message is an absolute duck,” he said.
“Ducks” of this kind are produced on the current volume in the transfer high phase. Also about the highly talented wingers Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint-Germain), Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao) and Rafael Leao (AC Milan) rose. There are currently no concrete indications of what the Sané replacement is called. For Bayern and Eberl, this also means: FC Bayern no longer gets all the players he wants. The Florian Wirtz case, which changes to Liverpool FC instead of Bavaria, has impressively confirmed this trend.
Max Eberl should reduce the costs
In addition to the Sané succession, Eberl has to reach a different transfer goal. It is intended to reduce the costs that are exorbitantly high due to the very spacious salaries at Bayern. Supervisory Board Karl-Heinz Rummenigge recently confessed in an interview: “When it comes to salaries of our players, we have-to say that self-critically-worked a bit generously.”
For this reason, large earners such as Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry are considered a candidate for sales. The problem: Coman has so far played strikingly well at the club World Cup, so Uli Hoeneß found praising words about the French, which Eberl does not make work on this personnel easier. If Hoeneß becomes a advocate for a professional who wants to sell Eberl, it doesn’t necessarily make things easier. In addition: Both players have valid contracts (Coman until 2027, Gnabry by 2026) and obviously do not want to change.
Other selling candidates are central defenders Min-Jae Kim and the defensive midfielder João Palhinha, who only moved to Munich for a whopping 80 million euros last year, but has mostly been on the bench since then. Both would probably only be sold again with loss, but would be down from the list of salary.
A replacement is available for both: national players and central defenders Jonathan Tah is already playing for Bayern at the club World Cup and midfield talent Tom Bischof came from Hoffenheim. Two transfers are fixed. Now Eberl has to do the rest.
Source: Stern
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