Jamal Musiala’s injury: The Black Summer of FC Bayern

It was the pictures of horror, so disturbing that the Pay TV station DAZN waived a repetition. That means something, because because of that, players are zooming out of the face or pain, players from their face.

But this scene, happening in the 45th minute of the game Paris Saint-Germain against FC Bayern, was not to be expected for the audience: like the PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, a giant from a man, to the side and Bavaria’s Jamal Musiala falls like a tree.

Musiala remained immediately. His left foot stood unnaturally spread, almost in the right angle to the leg. A picture that hurt when looking at it.

It is the picture that FC Bayern will still deal with for weeks. Jamal Musiala, 22, the most talented and most important player in Munich, will be at least four to five months. So long takes Musiala to recover from the broken fibula that he suffered in 0-2 against Paris in the quarter-finals of the club World Cup, the most superfluous competition in world football.

Musialas failure not only means a significant weakening for FC Bayern in terms of sport. It also questions the complete transfer strategy of the association. The defeat in the advertisement around Florian Wirtz had just talked about that you had a Musiala in the squad, no less talented and playing in a similar position. In addition, Bayern had to cope with Leroy Sané’s departure, who had asked for an improved contract, did not get anyone and switched to Galatasaray Istanbul a few days ago. Thomas Müller will also be missing in the future, sorted out by sports director Max Eberl for reasons of age. Against Paris, Müller played his last game for FC Bayern after 25 years in the club.

There may have been good reasons for each individual of these personnel decisions. Wirtz: With 150 million euros too expensive, Sané: too moody and fluctuating in the performance, Müller: above the zenith, also occupies a squad square that is better to give a young, aspiring player.

In total, however, a problem for FC Bayern, which has only become more urgent with the violation of Musiala: important positions in the offensive midfield are vacant – only seven weeks before the new Bundesliga season begins. Who is playing in position ten behind the storm tip – where Musiala and Müller worked? Who should replace Sané on the wing? Really Serge Gnabry or Kingsley Coman, the one shaped, the other prone to injury?

This transfer summer threatens to become a darker for FC Bayern. So far, Bayern have only been canceling in the effort to reinforce the offensive. Nico Williams stays in Bilbao for the time being and, if at all, will switch to FC Barcelona. In any case, this is his publicly expressed wish. Rafael Leao from AC Milan will not come either, despite the rumors. Bavaria’s supervisory board recently revealed that he had been in the field of view of Bayern, but never achieved a candidate status.

In general: Uli Hoeneß. He currently makes life difficult for Max Eberl with his interruptions. About Nick Woltemade, for example, Hoeneß said that he considered the Stuttgart to be “a very, very good player”, who “would suit us well”, but you don’t have to get it at any price: “If not, then next year.”

The problem: Hoeneß said these sentences in front of Musiala’s broken fibula. Now the location is a completely new one, now sports director Eberl is under a huge pressure to act. How would he like to get Woltemade as a playing striker, just as Thomas Müller was one in his best times?

In Stuttgart you will know about the need for Bayern. VfB recently called 100 million euros for the 23 -year -old Woltemade, which can only show a strong half of the season.

Since this weekend, since Jamal Musiala’s misfortune, Bayern have been blackmailed, as has rarely before in recent years. Actually, Eberl should have provided a balanced transfer budget through player sales. This will not be possible this summer. On the contrary. FC Bayern will probably do it like the black-red coalition: decide a special fund and try to fix the mistakes of the past with a lot of money.