FC Bayern draw red line in poker contract with David Alaba

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reSo what should it be? Supposedly final, there will be no more. According to a Kicker report, FC Bayern’s supervisory board stipulated that the offer made by David Alaba to extend his contract should be the last. Accept it or go, that’s the message.

You could also say that Bayern are tired of the 28-year-old defender keeping him under contract torture. Or, from the point of view, from his adviser Pini Zahavi, whom Supervisory Board member Uli Hoeneß had publicly portrayed as a “greedy piranha” over the weekend.

Alaba has to decide, because the transfer window will close soon. In two and a half weeks, on October 5, it will be closed. Because that also resonated in Hoeneß’s tirade about the case: If Alaba doesn’t want to stay, he will likely be sold and won’t see the end of his contract in the summer of 2021 at Bayern Munich.

“Uli said what Pini Zahavi already knows,” Salihamidzic said now. And he again pointed to the bar that Hoeneß had already mentioned as the maximum measure: “At Bayern there is a sporting and economic upper limit: Robert Lewandowski and Manuel Neuer. I don’t think David himself thinks he’s above these two colleagues. “

“We will not do crazy things”

In that case, it is still not entirely clear what Alaba thinks or perhaps only his advisor thinks he can exploit it. According to Hoeneß, only the Israeli wanted a fee “in the double-digit million range” for his intermediary services, which in turn branded Alaba’s father George, who was also involved in the negotiations, as “dirty lies about wage and commission claims “.

Salihamdizic, however, sidestepped Hoeneß and pointed out that the million dollar game of poker is obviously many millions more than what FC Bayern considers financially justifiable and morally representable. Zahavi, Salihamidzic said, “think in other dimensions. It can, but we won’t follow it. We won’t do crazy things like you might know from other clubs. And certainly not at a time when sales and profits are crashing, in football and elsewhere in business life. “

Now, of course, FC Bayern don’t want to mess with Alaba. For that, it is too important in sporting terms. Salihamidzic, therefore, separated, like Hoeneß, between the tricks of the player and the adviser. Alaba is “appreciated by everyone at the club, by everyone on the team, by the coach, by the president, by the CEO, by me, by Oliver Kahn and of course by Uli – actually by everyone. The appreciation is abundant. They all want David to stay. The fact is, he has repeatedly rejected our attractive offer, but we are still trying to convince him. “

That will not be easy. The Austrian’s warehouse is said to be targeting an annual salary of 25 million euros, as well as a five-year contract. The figures presented by Bavaria, however, are not recorded, said Alaba’s father: “We have our own ideas.”

Klopp catches Thiago for Liverpool FC

Meanwhile, the club may remove another top earner from payroll as planned. Jürgen Klopp thank you. According to information from “Bild”, Thiago’s signing for Liverpool FC is fixed. The English champions should be willing to pay the € 30 million transfer fee demanded by the Munich team.

Negotiations between Bayern and Liverpool had accelerated this week after Bayern officials made it clear that they would complete the transfer before the start of the Bundesliga season on Friday against Schalke 04 (8:30 p.m., on the sports ticker by WELT). want.

Thiago arrived in Munich in 2013 from the hand of Pep Guardiola (“Thiago, nothing else!”), He was among other things champion of the Champions League and seven times champion.