As high as ADEYEMI 2018
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Lennart Karl cannot join the prominent goal scorer of FC Bayern for three-packers Jamal Musiala and the double successful Thomas Müller, Michael Olise and Kingsley Coman at his professional debut in the Munich Starsemble. So?! Even without a premiere goal, the 1.68 meter offensive talent in Cincinnati was an eye-catcher at the start of the club World Championship at the start of the club World Cup.
A new asterisk sparkles and coach Vincent Kompany was satisfied: “Good for him, good for Bavaria.” The first game in the professional area for Karl, who was still active at the U17 European Championship in May, also means the first market value: it is initially assessed at 1.5 million euros and is therefore at a level with today’s international Karim Adeyemi when he debut for FC Liefering in Austria in 2018. Only three German U18 talents were assessed higher in the transfer of transfer market.
Kompany took a handful of young players from the Bayern Campus to the USA. U17 international Karl is probably the most exciting. In Bavaria’s U17 and U19, the Youngster from Markt Frammersbach in Lower Franconia constantly plays up with its left wand, scores and prepares goals. In 2024/25 he came to 34 own goals and eleven templates in 31 competitive games. Against Auckland, he tore the audience with a courageous dribbling with or with a cheeky shot from an acute angle. Kompany used the 6-0 halftime score to give Karl a first appearance on the world stage, took out 100 million man Olise from the field (all information about the Bundesliga market value update).
Bayern coach Kompany names Lennart Karl’s strengths
“It is always about the future of the club. It was important to give Lennart Karl his first minutes. He also deserves that. His strength is that he also has this high quality in the last third of the field. I did not feel that we are giving up with the risk of scoring,” praised the coach. Karl was also in the Bundesliga squad several times in the end of the season, as well as in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, when Kompany had to do without so many well-known players. However, he only came to his debut in the USA.
Karl’s U19 coach at Bayern, Peter Gaydarov, had given a similar assessment to the transfer market in May: The talent is characterized by “outstanding technical skills, which he continuously developed at a high level. In the course of 2025, he not only made significant progress in his athletic dynamic. Level of professional training underlines its ability to learn and have been noticeable since then in all game phases – especially on the switching game and in the dribbling.
This advises Bayern defender Tah to his new teammate Lennart Karl
Karl, who is aiming for the secondary school leaving certificate away from the soccer field next year, can play on the right, left and centrally on the offensive. And he wants to “assert himself here at Bayern”, as he recently said in a club interview. From newcomer to Bayern Jonathan Tah, who immediately played the role of defense chief, there was an important advice: “It is a good one-against-one player. It is important that he now stays on, continues to work and does not lean back.”
Markus Weinzierl, former Bundesliga coach and today sports director at the Bayern campus, found words that were praising in May. “He is a super young, very pleasant in everyday life and stays on the floor,” he told the “evening newspaper”. “In between, I thought: How will it be when he’s upstairs? How does he get along with it? This is not easy for young guys, such a hype. But he really does that, he is ambitious every day. I think he’s unobizable.”
Karl’s consultant is ex-Bavaria’s professional Michael Ballack, who was in action against Auckland at the DAZN streaming service as a TV expert and knows how to put a world career. By the way: Musiala, who celebrated his 30-minute comeback after a muscle bundle against Auckland’s hobby kicker with a hat trick, was also delicate 17 when he started the Munich professionals. And then fulminant started.