FC Bayern saw Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting as a better striker than Sasa Kalajdzic. That’s why the transfer didn’t happen in the summer.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is currently delivering to FC Bayern and is the focus of attention. Already last summer, the belief in him was greater than the desire to strengthen with Sasa Kalajdzic.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting has been of great importance to Bayern in recent games. For the time being he pushed the discussions about a centre-forward aside because he was able to efficiently exploit the scoring chances that were otherwise good in terms of numbers.
While the team is happy about the goals on the one hand and the 33-year-old on the other, the management seems to be able to pat themselves on the back. As Oliver Kahn put it recently: For him, the valuable input and the good performance of the Cameroonian are “not a big surprise”.
It is becoming increasingly clear that last summer it was expected that ‘Choupo’ could become important again in the course of this season.
While there was internal analysis and discussion of how to deal with the vacant role in the center of the attack, Sasa Kalajdzic was also an issue at Säbener Straße in the meantime. Noisy sports picture one result of this: those responsible saw higher quality in Choupo-Moting than in Kalajdzic.
Consequently, the Austrian was not committed. Instead, FCB went into his last year of contract with the attacker, who had already been contracted in 2020. At the moment there is a tendency to want to continue the cooperation beyond next summer. Publicly, however, there is still no commitment to this. On the contrary: .
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Source: Stern
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