Paradigm shift in Munich? In the management level of FC Bayern, the club’s transfer policy is apparently being fundamentally changed.
In the management level of FC Bayern, a rethinking of the question of transfer policy is currently taking place. Again table football reports, promising players “between 20 and 22 years” will be the focus in the future, who can then be sold profitably.
Youngsters should be “committed between the ages of 20 and 22, encouraged in their career for two, three or four years and then passed on to potential buyers profitably by means of high exit clauses,” continues the specialist magazine. While the ex-board boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge still had the maxim that FC Bayern was not a sales club, successor Oliver Kahn, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and Co. had reconsidered this attitude.
Rising salary costs at FC Bayern
The reason for this development is the drastically increased salary costs in recent years, which means that there is no money for expensive transfers. For example, Kingsley Coman, Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka were offered a contract extension with a hefty salary increase. There are also players like Lucas Hernandez, who immediately became one of the top earners when he moved to Munich in 2019. Now it is no longer possible to deal with “international top players like Franck Ribery or Arjen Robben”.
The fact that FC Bayern, according to information from GOAL, is very interested in signing Ajax talent Ryan Gravenberch also fits in with this approach. Due to the possible departure of Corentin Tolisso on a free transfer, Bayern are looking for reinforcements in central midfield.
Added to that table footballAccording to the report, the idea of no longer using highly talented youngsters with the amateurs, but sending them on loan to first-class partner clubs abroad. The exchange with Austria Klagenfurt (fourth in Austria’s Bundesliga), where goalkeeper talent Liu Shaoziyang and Timossi Andersson are already active on loan, is to be intensified. In addition, a cooperation partner is being sought in Belgium.
Source: Stern
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