At Bayern on the transfer market, it is at Bayern: Wirtz goes to Liverpool, Williams extends at Bilbao. In addition, the violation of Jamal Musiala. The dream solution with Paul Wanner could be very close.
January 7, 2022. At the start of the second half of the season, half the squad must be in quarantine. With an emergency team, the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann loses 1-2 at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach. That evening Paul Wanner celebrates his Bundesliga debut: with just 16 years and 15 days. He is still the youngest Bundesliga player in the history of FC Bayern Munich.
The then coach Julian Nagelsmann predicts a great career, “if he stays clearly in his head. He is an incredible talent, very quickly, very ball -safe, brave.” Nagelsmann’s praise only follows five further short missions for Bayern’s professionals. After that, Wanner should collect professional kilometers at two lending stations.
After borrowing: Paul Wanner returns to FC Bayern
This summer the German U21 international returns to the record champion with the Austrian roots. There he could become a temporary solution after the failure of superstar Jamal Musiala. Unlike Musiala, Wanner had to take the detour over second division Elversberg, where he picked up the necessary professional hardness in the second division under coach Horst Steffen.
Steffen, now head coach at Bundesliga club Bremen, would like to bring the giant talent to the Weser. Werder’s trainer says about Wanner and the ex-Elversberger Asllani: “These are boys with whom I worked well with who are very interesting. The way of dealing with both players was so that they performed quite well and enjoyed it.”
Wanner collects verbal “watschn” by Hermann Gerland
Nobody questioned that Wanner can kick. However, the now 19-year-old has to prove that he can also permanently call up the Bundesliga hardness and seriousness. Bavaria’s assistant trainer legend Hermann Gerland, now assistant coach at Germany’s U21 juniors.
The “Tiger” crash an interview with the “Bild” newspaper with Wanner and flaps: “If I had this talent like Paul at the time, I would have made about 100 games at 19 years at Bayern Munich!” Gerland’s words sound like a Watschn, but should motivate the exceptional kicker to make more out of his talent.
Mountains and descent with Heidenheim
Wanner went through a similarly hard school the year before. As a loan in Heidenheim, he learns what “grass eat” means. Bayern loan starts the season well under Schleifer Frank Schmidt. Bavaria’s sports director Christoph Freund appreciates this last September: “Basically, it is a very good development. He has now had a perfect start to the season, Heidenheim is the perfect club for him.”
Also because Wanner can and may go through power trees at the FCH. After a mountain and descent with Heidenheim, the talented teen helps to keep the league via the relegation. In the second leg against his ex-club Elversberg, Wanner gave the template at the Heidenheim winning goal. He then becomes Vice European Champion at the U21 European Championship with Germany.
However, its future is currently unclear. At the start of the training in three weeks, he will probably be returned to Bayern. But whether he can stay is uncertain. According to information from BR24Sport, the sporting leadership around board member Max Eberl has not yet made a clear statement to Wanner.
The future of Paul Wanner: Does he stay at FC Bayern?
Interested parties for a loan or even a purchase would be: In addition to Bremen, VfB Stuttgart is also hot for Wanner. Whether as a clearing post for the Woltemade transfer or against cash. Nevertheless, the question arises: Why do Bavaria once again not trust their own promotion of young talent? Year after year, countless talents leave the Bayern campus without having received a chance of playing time.
Only at Superstar Musiala had the Munich united the courage to throw in a youngster under the then coach Hansi Flick. What became of it is well known. Even Aleksander Pavlovic almost fell through the grid, ex-coach Tuchel would have got his “Holding Six” at the time. In the Wanner case, this means: either be brave and maybe shape the next superstar yourself, or dig deep into your pocket again and scare away another talent.
That is the European perspective at BR24.
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Source: BR24Sport
10.07.2025 – 10:54 a.m.
