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FC Bayern is working intensively on its form before the start of the season. It will play without national player Leroy Sané, who needs time after his groin operation.
Seoul – The premiere of the new coach Vincent Kompany at the FC Bayern im DFB Cup against second division promoted team SSV Ulm on August 16 is getting closer and closer. Bayern used a trip to South Korea to train intensively. In the friendly against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday (August 3), the first glimpses of Kompany’s tactical ideas were already visible.
However, national player Leroy Sane He did not travel to Asia. After the EM Sané decided to undergo surgery on his groin to correct his ongoing pubic bone problems. It was originally expected that the minimally invasive operation would not result in a long absence. However, Max Eberl has now confirmed that Sané will miss the start of the new season.
Max Eberl: “We will really take it week by week”
“Leroy will be doing his rehab for some time. He should now be 100 percent fit after this pubic bone injury, which he really carried through last season and the European Championship, and the operation afterwards. We will really take it from week to week,” said the sporting director during FC Bayern’s tour of South Korea.
Leroy Sané is expected to undergo longer rehabilitation measures at FC Bayern. © IMAGO/Oscar J. Barroso
Last season, Sané had an impressive first half of the season, but was unable to maintain that level after the winter break due to his injury. If FC Bayern had not played a long Champions League season and Germany had not hosted the European Championship, he might have had the operation earlier, Sané said before the quarter-final against Spain.
Leroy Sané should be “pain-free for the next few weeks and years”
The hope is that Sané will no longer have any pubic bone problems in the long term after recovering from the operation. The aim is for Sané to be “really pain-free for the next few weeks and years, ideally. A few days are not important now,” Eberl stressed.
After the DFB Cup opening match, FC Bayern’s first Bundesliga match is scheduled for August 25th against VfL Wolfsburg. The first international break of the new season follows the home match opening match against SC Freiburg. Sané, who is currently in the last year of his contract with Bayern, is said to be leaning towards a contract extension.
