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There’s still a good eleven weeks left until winter break.
Eleven weeks in which FC Bayern players will play 18 games, not counting the grueling internationals for the national team in autumn.
It is these numbers, combined with the shrinking size of the team, that prompted Hansi Flick to sound the alarm.
“If we lose players in this class – Thiago, Philippe Coutinho, Ivan Perisic – then we have to replace this quality. That will be elementary next season, when we have a game every three days for months,” said the Bayern coach. of the final phase of the Champions League in mid-August.
Flick’s call to Bayern is heard
In the meantime, the aforementioned trio has left Munich. Flick’s insistence didn’t go unnoticed either.
Shortly before the end of the transfer period, Bayern, in the person of their sporting director, Hasan Salihamidzic, struck – and four times!
But the Bosnian transfer offensive not only raises praise, it also raises questions.
What signal does the signing of Douglas Costa, Marc Roca, Bouna Sarr and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting send to the youngsters of FC Bayern?
And how will Uli Hoeneß react to last minute transfers after the honorary chairman of FC Bayern just three weeks ago? CHECK24 double pass advised against against an offense in the player market?
Hoeneß: “No one is missing”
“No one is missing,” Hoeneß said in response to the corresponding demands from Flick. SPORT1 answer back. “We have three or four good young players. If we only get established players, they won’t stand a chance.”
But that is exactly what has happened now. With Costa (30), Choupo-Moting (31) and Sarr (28), three of the four newcomers already belong to the older generation, only Roca, with 23 years, is at least half of the category of young players .
In return, the Munich team with Michael Cuisance (21, Olympique Marseile) Adrian Fein (21, PSV Eindhoven), Oliver Batista-Meier (19, SC Heerenveen), Lars Lukas Mai (20, Darmstadt 98) and Christian Früchtl (20 ) and Sarpreet Singh (21) for both 1. FC Nürnberg, half a dozen very promising talents on loan from another club.
Flick himself had sufficiently demonstrated how well he can integrate young players into the professional team.
On the left side of defense, Alphonso Davies is only 19 years old.
The only 17-year-old Jamal Musiala had his chance in all three league games this season and even became the youngest Bundesliga scorer in Bayern history against Schalke 04.
Chris Richards (20) was even able to play Berlin Hertha early on and did his job more than correctly in the right-back position until the substitution after 65 minutes.
What’s next for Zirkzee?
But in the future he will probably come out as much as Joshua Zirkzee. Because Bayern are not only putting a new signing in front of Richards with Sarr, they are also likely to keep the Dutch forward’s playing minutes to a minimum.
Because Zirkzee doesn’t just have to wait for superstar Robert Lewandowski to get a creative break or two. In this case he also has to prevail against Choupo-Moting.
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That he really doesn’t feel like doing it, he only realized with Fox sports stressed. “I need minutes to play and together with Bayern we have to see what to do. If that means I am on loan, we will do it,” said the 19-year-old.
But no door has yet been opened for the teenager, not with 1. FC Köln, which he apparently asked for two months ago but has now found gold elsewhere, not with his youth club Feyenoord, where sporting director Frank Arnesen I reject it.
He faces the same fate as Bayern’s other promising talents. In the club’s quest for more and more success, its own children are once again threatened with going to the bank, or to other clubs. In winter at the latest.
