Bayern needs to reinvent itself after a season to forget. A blank season, the first since the 2011-12 campaign, in which their hegemony in the Bundesliga ended after 11 consecutive ‘Salad Bowls’.
“This is not the Bayern I knew. There will be changes”, said sports director Max Eberl. And his catharsis began on the bench. After a long casting in which they even tried to convince Thomas Tuchel to continue, Vincent Kompany He became the new Bavarian coach until 2027.
And with the coach already ‘tied’, now it’s time to remodel the squad. “We have talked intensely about the players. We have taken steps in planning the team. It is more advanced than you think,” said Eberl who, together with Christoph Freund, is designing the new Bayern that is coming.
We have talked intensely about the players. We have taken steps in team planning. It’s more advanced than you think
“We need stars, but also young and hungry talent,” Eberl warned. And in that plan your first big objective is Xavi Simons. The 21-year-old Dutch playmaker, who this season has been on loan from PSG to RB Leipzig, is on the Bavarian list according to ‘Bild’. With a contract until 2027 with a Parisian team that, a priori, is counting on him, his relationship with Eberl, with whom he worked in the ‘bulls’, could be key for his arrival.
Stanisic returns
There will be more new faces. Palhinha, a Fulham midfielder who was close to landing at the Allianz Arena in previous windows, is another of the names marked in red. Like Stanisic who, after his brilliant loan at Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen, will return to Munich to be part of the Kompany team.
We need stars, but also young and hungry talent
There will also be departures (Choupo-Moting and Sarr have already left the club) in a Bayern in which several key pieces are entering the last year of their contract. Sané, Kimmich, Davies, Dier, Müller, Neuer and Ulreich have links with the Bavarians until 2025. If they do not renew, they could leave this summer to enter a transfer. A whole revolution.
