Club President Herbert Hainer sees FC Bayern Munich in an excellent position in the long term.
After the transfer offensive this summer with new stars like Sadio Mané and Matthijs de Ligt as well as contract extensions with a number of top performers like Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry, Hainer is satisfied.
“We have now built the squad for the next few years, not just for the next season,” said Hainer (68) in the soccer talk show “Doppelpass” on TV station Sport1.
Bayern have compensated for the loss of top scorer Robert Lewandowski with investments of well over 100 million euros in new top players – early on before the end of the transfer period in a month. “We wanted to be ahead of the wave this time,” said President and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Hainer about the record champion’s early action.
“Late transfers” have not always gone so well in the past, Hainer admitted self-critically. A transfer plan was drawn up after last season and then “worked through”. Now you are more or less through at the beginning of the season.