“He’s on the right track”
Will he be Goretzka’s successor?
Updated on January 30, 2026 – 11:34 p.mReading time: 4 minutes
Several promising top talents from FC Bayern are currently gaining important experience on loan. Some raise high hopes.
However, not every talent can achieve what Karl achieved in record time in his first six months with the professional team – especially not at such a record pace. But several players at FC Bayern have already shown that other paths and sometimes detours can lead to success and even to the top of the world. For example, 2014 world champion Philipp Lahm was loaned out to VfB Stuttgart for two years at the start of his career, before returning to the record champions in strength and getting started there too. David Alaba once matured at his loan station in Hoffenheim and then asserted himself in Munich.
Some promising young Munich professionals now want to follow these prominent examples. Bayern have currently loaned out numerous promising talents to other clubs. Arijon Ibrahimović (20, Heidenheim), Armindo Sieb (22, Mainz 05), Lovro Zvonarek (20, Grasshopper Club Zurich), Tarek Buchmann (20, 1. FC Nürnberg) and Maurice Krattenmacher (20, Hertha BSC) are among them, as are Jonah Kusi-Asare (18, FC Fulham), Jonathan Asp-Jensen (20, Grasshopper Club Zurich) and Noël Aséko (20, Hannover 96).
“We are fundamentally satisfied with the loans and how the boys are developing,” said Bayern’s sports director Christoph Freund recently when asked by t-online. He commented on the latter trio in detail. “Kusi (Kusi-Asare; editor’s note) has to fight his way in, hasn’t got that many minutes yet, this is the Premier League,” he said about the Swedish striker Kusi-Asare. However, the attacker has had a complicated first six months in England.
“It is not our plan to end a loan early,” Freund made it clear. “It’s of course a challenge for him, in the Premier League and in a good team. He’s pushing hard and isn’t developing too badly in training. His starting debut also shows that.”
