Argentina’s world champion Lionel Messi from Paris St. Germain to North American Major League Soccer to Inter Miami made headlines around the world. Likewise the shopping spree of the Saudi Pro League. Cristiano Ronaldo in the winter, now Real Madrid’s goalscorer Karim Benzema has followed him into the desert. In addition, Brazilian Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino and Chelsea’s France world champion N’Golo Kante are free transfers. Chelsea’s Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and central defender Kalidou Kulibaly cost a total of 41.5 million euros, Inter Milan’s Croatian team star Marcelo Brozovic alone 18.5 million. A well-known coach name will also work in Saudi Arabia in the future: Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard. Just like the Portuguese Jorge Jesus (last with Fenerbahce, previously with Benfica) and his compatriot Nuno Espirito Santo (previously Tottenham and Wolverhampton) for a year with champions Al Ittihad. By early July, Saudi Arabian clubs had spent 96.5 million on prominent names.
There are also excitements in England. Ilkay Gündogan, captain of treble winners Manchester City, moved to Spain for FC Barcelona on a free transfer. Runner-up Arsenal declared war on the champions with West Ham midfield star Declan Rice and Chelsea’s German team player Kai Havertz. Both cost a total of 192 million transfer fee. Chelsea also sold Linz-raised Croatian team player Mateo Kovacic to champions Manchester City, Mason Mount to Manchester United and Ruben Loftus-Cheek to Milan, the trio bringing in a whopping 109 million. Enough to bring in new stars, French striker Christopher Nkunku from RB Leipzig and Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson from Spain from Villarreal. The English fans are concerned with one question above all: Will team captain Harry Kane (picture) leave the island, will the 29-year-old switch from Tottenham to Germany to champions Bayern Munich?
This is also the dominant topic in the German media. Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel had already been a guest at Kane’s London home. Even with the then dismissed sports director Hasan Salihamidzic. Bayern should agree with Kane’s advisors, who are father and brother. Kane would like to win a title with Bayern, but has so far been denied that with Tottenham. Which shouldn’t change. That’s why Bavaria appeals to him. Tottenham owner Daniel Levy rejected the first offer from Munich for the center forward for a fee of 70 million euros. He wants to get 100 million for the living goal guarantee, Levy is considered one of the toughest negotiators in the football business. That could drag on until the end of the transfer window on September 1st. Kane is looking to beat Levy this time, who blocked his move to Manchester City in previous years.
In order to be able to finance Kane and Tuchel’s second English player of choice, city defender Kyle Walker, Bayern’s so-called transfer committee with Honorary President Uli Hoeneß, ex-CEO Karl Heinz Rummenigge, Tuchel and the successor to Oliver Kahn, Jan Christian Dreesen and President Herbert Hainer no fewer than eleven names, some of them very prominent, on the transfer list. Not only ex-Salzburg legionnaire Sadio Mane, who Bayern took from Liverpool for 31 million a year ago, likes it. German team players like Leon Goretzka and Serge Gnabry or the young Dutch star Ryan Gravenberch, for whom Ajax Amsterdam got 18.5 million a year ago, should also go if the offer fits. Marcel Sabitzer after the spring loan at Manchester United as well. This time AS Roma with coaching guru Jose Mourinho are said to be very interested in loaning the Austrian out. But Bayern just wants to sell him. There are still some “excitements” ahead.
Everything should have gone well with the new central defender Min Jae Kim. Bayern paid Italy’s champions Napoli 50 million for the South Korean, and the 26-year-old, nicknamed “Monster”, received a five-year contract. Bayer’s doctors flew to Seoul for a medical check-up because Kim was doing his military service in South Korea. He succeeds Frenchman Lucas Hernandez, who was signed for €80m from Atletico Madrid in 2019. Now he moved to Paris St. Germain for 50. The Frenchman, Bayern’s previous record buy, missed almost more than he played in four years with a total of 13 injuries, including the second cruciate ligament rupture of his career.
Officially fixed at Bayern for the time being only two new ones. Austria’s free transfer team player Konrad Laimer and Portuguese left foot Raphael Guerrero. Tuchel really wanted the defender he knew from his time in Dortmund. He took over the shirt number 22 from his compatriot Joao Cancelo. Laimer doesn’t have a jersey number yet. He would like to play when he is 27. Just like in his successful Leipzig time. But the number is blocked by Swiss team goalkeeper Yann Sommer. Whether he stays with Bayern depends on Manuel Neuer’s comeback. That’s why Laimer has to wait for the time being.
2023-07-10 17:58:45
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