Niklas Süle will move from FC Bayern to Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer after the current season. Munich’s head coach Julian Nagelsmann would have loved to keep the German national player, but now congratulated BVB publicly.
While reporting on the round of 16 second leg between FC Bayern and RB Salzburg (7-1) on Tuesday evening, head coach Julian Nagelsmann also met a representative of league rival Borussia Dortmund in Matthias Sammer.
The topic was therefore inevitably the upcoming transfer of Niklas Süle. Both agreed: The German national player is performing well for his current employer even after the announcement of his move to BVB.
Sammer, former sports director of FC Bayern and an external consultant at BVB for several years, praised his role as a TV expert for “Amazon Prime”: “It’s interesting what’s going on in the brain. Facts are always better than ambiguities. He’s playing really well that way.”
Nagelsmann still “satisfied” with Süle at Bayern Munich
Together with the management team around managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke, sports director Michael Zorc and license player manager Sebastian Kehl, Sammer has also been discussing possible transfer deals since 2018. With the signing of 26-year-old Niklas Süle, Borussia has landed a real coup, since no transfer fee has to be paid to FC Bayern.
“I congratulate you, Matthias,” Nagelsmann acknowledged to Sammer: “Good move.” The Bayern coach added: “But he still plays for us and performs well. That’s why we’re satisfied.”
Even if the 34-year-old would have preferred the defender to stay in Munich, it was “always more pleasant when you know what’s going to happen next year”.
At Borussia Dortmund, Niklas Süle signed a working paper until 2026. Previously, talks with FC Bayern executives regarding an extension of the contract, which expired in the summer, had failed.