Desired player for FC Bayern?
“Excluded”: TV expert does not believe in Tah change
December 9, 2024 – 6:45 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
Jonathan Tah is likely to move to a top European club on a free transfer in the summer. Which club that could be is still completely open.
Jonathan Tah’s future continues to cause debate. It is almost clear that the German international will leave Bayer Leverkusen next summer. Even if Leverkusen’s managing director Simon Rolfes doesn’t want to give up hope that Tah will extend his expiring contract.
“He knows that the door here is open for Jona,” said Rolfes on Saturday. However, the current situation is such that “the contract is expiring and that he normally leaves. But sometimes things change in football.”
One club that is repeatedly associated with Tah is FC Bayern. Now Sky expert Didi Hamann has joined the debate – and rules out that there will be a move to Munich.
“It’s clear that there’s a big market for a player like that who’s also available for free. He’s in the best age for a central defender and has three or four very good years ahead of him,” said Hamann on the Sky 90 program “. “I could imagine that many clubs in England are interested because he is of course a physically strong player, good in the air, very fast. They love players like that on the island.”
Then Hamann says the crucial thing: “After what happened last year, Bayern said you’d come to us and then it failed because of the money. I think it’s impossible for him to go to Bayern in the summer. I can do that I can’t imagine.”
As t-online reported at the end of October, there are great doubts in Tah’s environment as to whether a move to Munich would even be the right step for him (you can read more about this here). Also for exactly the reason that Hamann now states. The transfer prank last summer that Bayern and Leverkusen engaged in when negotiating for Tah has left its mark. As a reminder: Leverkusen felt held up by Bayern for a long time in the negotiations for Tah and saw agreements supposedly made not being adhered to.
Tah became a political issue between the clubs and their managers, which also sparked the dispute between Leverkusen’s managing director Fernando Carro and Bayern’s sports director Max Eberl. Carro said at a fan event: “Well, I don’t think anything of Max Eberl, absolutely nothing! And I wouldn’t negotiate with him.”
At that point, the negotiations became emotionally charged and, in principle, doomed to failure. According to reports, Bayern were ultimately unwilling to pay more than 20 million euros, while Leverkusen insisted on their demand of 25 million euros. In the end, a change failed because of five million euros.