When is he back on the pitch?
Op and rehabilitation instead of vacation: this is the Musiala Plan
07.07.2025 – 07:47 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Bayern wanted to become world champions in the USA. But against Paris was the end of the end – everything overlaid by a terrible scene.
When FC Bayern reported the sad certainty of a long failure 21 hours after Jamal Musiala’s serious injury, the German international was already on the return flight from Orlando to Munich.
There the 22-year-old would be “operated promptly” after the Bayern doctors in the USA had found after the 0: 2 against Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals of the club World Cup in investigations that Musiala “suffered a fracture of the calf bone” in the context of an ankle luxation. The other Bayern-Tross also left the United States.
“This serious injury and the long failure are a real shock for Jamal and all of us. That hits FC Bayern,” said sports director Max Eberl: “Everyone knows how immensely Jamal is for our game and what a central role for our team.” The national team also affects the injury: national coach Julian Nagelsmann has to successfully manage the six qualification games from September to November without a Musiala.
What’s next? When ideally, when can the DFB star be back on the pitch? After his broken fabric and various injuries to the ankle, the operation in the BG accident clinic Murnau, in which goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was operated on after his worse lower leg broken during ski touring at the end of 2022, a long reha for the national player.
The way to the comeback is “definitely not easy,” said Eberl. The record champion will have to contest the majority of the first half of the season without his fixed point in the game. When Musiala will be back on the pitch is completely unclear. In the worst case for all parties, it fails until the turn of the year.