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Failure in the premier class? Update to Manuel Neuer
Updated on January 28, 2025 – 6:01 p.m.Reading time: 19 min.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany can build on goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the final game of the league in the Champions League. The 38 -year -old goalkeeper only trained individually on Monday and Tuesday, “but he will definitely be there,” said coach Vincent Kompany against Slovan Bratislava before the game on Wednesday.
Should Neuer still fail, the record champion would have a problem. Sven Ulreich had seen the red card at 0: 3 in Rotterdam as a substitute for complaining and is closed, Daniel Peretz is still injured. In addition, the new keeper Jonas Urbig is not available. The newcomer is not reported for the premier class. In an emergency, U17 world champion Max Schmitt would have to between the posts. The 19-year-old has not yet played a professional game.
After weeks of discussions, it is now clear how TV funds will be distributed in German professional football in the future. And the most important German club FC Bayern Munich is satisfied with the result. “The agreement of the DFL Presidium is a good compromise,” said Deputy CEO Michael Diederich when asked by DPA. “Due to the modified distributor model, FC Bayern’s will again clearly expresses a constructive balance of interests to strengthen the league as a whole.”
The new distribution key is very much based on the old. And that means neither traditional clubs such as Schalke 04 or Hamburger SV, as required in the future, significantly more money, nor will the income that top clubs like Bayern Munich will achieve in international competitions will in future incorporate into a large pot of all media revenues.
FC Bayern Munich has signed U21 national goalkeeper Jonas Urbig from second division 1. FC Köln. The 21-year-old signed a contract with the German record champion until 2029 and is given the chance in Munich to recommend Manuel Neuer successor. Read more about the change here.
FC Bayern will have to do without midfielder Leon Goretzka in the coming days. As the club announced on Sunday, the 29-year-old in the Bundesliga game on Saturday at SC Freiburg (2-1) suffered a strain in the left, rear thigh and “will pause for a few days”. Goretzka had been replaced in the 40th minute.
For the game in the Champions League on Wednesday against Slovan Bratislava, the injury has no effect, where Goretzka is already closed after his third yellow card. On Saturday in the Bundesliga game against Holstein Kiel, he could be available again when recovered.
FC Bayern will have to do without central defenders Dayot Upamecano in the point game at SC Freiburg on Saturday. According to sports director Christoph Freund, the Frenchman laboratories “light muscular problems”. The waiver of Upamecano is a “precautionary measure”.