Coach Thomas Tuchel and sporting director Christoph Freund spoke clearly about the situation in personnel planning and the tough search for new recruits at FC Bayern’s start to training.
“The winter transfer market is a little more complicated than that in the summer,” said Tuchel on Tuesday.
The German record champions are particularly struggling on defense. “It always caught us in the positions,” said Tuchel, referring to the defense center and the six, where he often had to improvise over the course of the first half of the season.
The FC Bayern head coach left it open whether one or more new arrivals were on the way. “Is it a specialist or can one player fill several positions? Then one can be enough,” explained Tuchel.
“It’s very difficult to get players in the middle of the season that we are 100 percent convinced of,” emphasized the 50-year-old.
Freund also echoed the same sentiments. “Winter is not that easy,” said the manager, who started working at FC Bayern at the beginning of September. “We know that we have a need. We were pretty much at the last stretch in terms of personnel.”
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At FC Bayern, 1b solutions for defense, such as Arnau Martínez (FC Girona) or Clément Lenglet, who is on loan from FC Barcelona to Aston Villa in the English Premier League, are perhaps considered realistic.
Desired player Ronald Araújo (FC Barcelona), on the other hand, is unlikely to be available. The speculation about the Uruguayan’s move to Munich had recently become quieter.
FC Bayern’s start of training took place without Serge Gnabry (hamstring injury) and Alphonso Davies (back on Wednesday as agreed), as well as the South Korean Minjae Kim, who was assigned to the Asian Cup, and the Moroccan Noussair Mazraoui, who was nominated for the African Cup.