“Surely some construction sites”
Julian Nagelsmann has described squad planning at FC Bayern as a “complex issue”. “We certainly have a few construction sites,” admitted the Munich coach on Friday. With a squad that has played together for a long time and has also been successful, at some point it would be time “to do something new. That’s important,” said the 34-year-old.
The loss of income from the Corona crisis is having a negative effect on the German record champions. “We are a bit financially hampered by the pandemic,” said Nagelsmann. “We don’t have the leeway we need to take the big step.” FC Bayern failed in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the second time in a row on Tuesday evening. The semi-finals were “not a fixed planning factor” for the finance department, but “always the goal worth striving for,” said Nagelsmann. The club lost several million as a result.
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The coach, who came from RB Leipzig in the summer, reported to “important players” that there were “difficult and tricky negotiations”. The contracts of the leading players Robert Lewandowski (33), Manuel Neuer (36) and Thomas Müller (32) will expire in the summer of 2023, as will the contract of Serge Gnabry (26).
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Nagelsmann expressed confidence in Lewandowski, who has been increasingly associated with a farewell to FC Barcelona in recent days. “Of course I’d like to keep him,” he said, adding that he didn’t get the impression that the six-time Bundesliga top scorer wanted to leave. “In the talks he seems like he would like to stay,” said Nagelsmann, referring to football-specific conversations with Lewandowski. But you can “not look completely inside your head.”
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Midfielder Ryan Gravenberch (19) and right-back Noussair Mazraoui (24) are traded from Ajax Amsterdam as newcomers. “We are very good at planning. It’s now about the implementation, which is not as easy as you would like it to be,” said Nagelsmann on the formation of the squad. He also brought up a possible venture investment. “At some point you have to take a bit of a risk in the hope that more will come of it later on. At this point we are right now, thinking about it carefully, calculating it and calculating it.”
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