Free transfer in 2021
With its increased efforts and investments in youth development, FC Bayern absolutely wants to avoid free transfers of talented young professionals. “Something like that with Angelo Stiller shouldn’t happen to us again,” said Jochen Sauer, head of the Munich youth academy, to the news portal “t online“.
Stiller came to the German record champions at the age of nine and came through the youth teams there. However, the midfielder did not make it into the professional squad. Instead, after three appearances in the first team, he moved to TSG Hoffenheim on a free transfer in 2021 and from there to VfB Stuttgart last summer for 5.5 million euros, “where he continued to develop very, very well,” as Sauer emphasized, “there “We need to harvest the fruits of our training work better.” As a look at the TM “Youth Work” statistics shows, a player like Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi was trained at FCB for a while, but his breakthrough came at another club.
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The Bayern campus could generally be an answer to the increasingly complicated transfer market, emphasized Sauer and gave an example: “Jamal Musiala is now a 100 million player and therefore a first answer.” But you “can’t plan for that “An exceptional caliber comes out here every year.” Bayern’s talents currently have a better chance of getting into the first team because the professional squad is small. “There is a lot of interest in the young players from the entire coaching team, including management,” emphasized Sauer.
The campus director has great hope in sports director Christoph Freund, who successfully nurtured top talent at Red Bull Salzburg in Austria for years before moving to Bayern last July. “We realized very quickly that we complement each other and fit together ideally as a team,” said Sauer, who had already worked with Freund in Salzburg for five years.
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