Joshua Kimmich ensures that the contract spoker with FC Bayern is amazed. The situation comes to a head and the decision is approaching.
Julian Buhl reports from Munich
In the 3-0 victory of FC Bayern on Wednesday evening in the round of 16 of the first game against Bayer Leverkusen, Joshua Kimmich initially spoke acts for himself. With a strong performance, he had an enormously large proportion of the record champion’s dominant appearance and earned the T-Online note 1.
He alone sent a clear message to the club bosses. It was unmistakable: Look, I am the head of this team and, in this form, also indispensable in the future. For all observers of the royal class duel, it was obvious that Kimmich is still the undisputed leader of this team.
On the square he went as such and then did not duck away from the topic in the interview in the arena catacombs, which currently overlaps everything else at FC Bayern: the offer of the club withdrawn from the supervisory board to extend Kimmich after this season.
Kimmich also verbally made a clear position on this cause. With some sentences he said, however, he also left his listeners in great surprise. One of his core messages, which he transmitted in front of the cameras, was: “The ball is not with me.” (Read more here.) In the past few days, the Bavaria Supervisory Board had given the opposite with the withdrawal of the contract offer and has supposedly put pressure on and put under pressure.
The tenor, which was heard on Säbener Straße, was very clear so far: If Kimmich wants to stay at Bayern FC, then he must now take a step to the club and send a correspondingly clear signal. Kimmich still thinks the ball in the contract poker is still in the other half of the game near Bavaria? Exactly this demand he answered with a clear: “Yes.”
As a central midfielder, Kimmich is actually an expert in the assessment of where and at whom the balls are on the pitch and in which rooms they need to be played next.
With his view of things, Kimmich should not only surprise not only the reporters, but above all the association managers. What Kimmich may mean: According to Sky, despite the written offers of Paris Saint-Germain and another club, he should have made it clear once again in the past three days that he is quite open to a contract extension at Bayern.
Kimmich certainly caused astonishment with what he followed immediately afterwards. “I don’t want to get too much for the time.
As he means exactly, he at least gave an idea between the lines. He spoke strikingly of very trusting conversations with sports director Max Eberl, sports director Christoph Freund and CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen. It apparently does not change the message that was sent to him and continues. Kimmich reported “a few very good conversations” and said: “I also notice that the Max is very honest that he is fighting too. I really appreciate that.”