The attacker changes from FC Bayern to Turkey. It is a sporty self -dismantling.
They cheered him when he arrived in Istanbul. Celebrated like a salvation. “It is already loud here, so I can’t wait to have my first game at home, in front of the fans,” said Leroy Sané on Thursday at the airport before driving to the medical check at Galatasaray.
How long he stays national player is questionable.
Leroy Sané will still regret this change from FC Bayern Munich to Galatasaray. Because he leaves a world club in the best football age, which also plays for the title in the Champions League every year, for a series master in a sporty league that is more not a first -class league, which is more considered a starting point for aging stars than for players at the zenith of their work.
Sané has found a club in Turkey, which apparently fully fulfills his lush financial demands. It speaks for itself that there was no association of a top league. The 29-year-old puts himself on the career siding overnight. Sané performs a sporting self -dismantling here, and it can be discussed about what would be worse: that he does not notice it at all – or that he accepts it. The question arises: What does he think?
He will only feel the consequences later. Then when national coach Julian Nagelsmann no longer nominated him for the DFB team. Because the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico has now suddenly moved far away for Sané. Because Nagelsmann also pays attention to compliance with the performance principle. This distinguishes him, which distinguishes him in particular from his predecessor, who in his Nibelung loyalty also called Lukas Podolski into his squad during Galatasaray times.
It is hard to imagine that Nagelsmann Sané, who has not been a regular player for some time now, is still nominated for the national team. Most recently, all DFB kickers were under contract with clubs from the top five-league Europe: Germany, England, Spain, France, Italy. Sané would have to dominate the more modest Süper Lig with an unexpected performance explosion every week in order to impress for further missions in the German jersey.
Incidentally, he threatens the next evil awakening in Istanbul. Because the native of Essen has been the greatest unolked promise of German football for years. The personified subjunctive. 220 competitive games for FC Bayern, 61 goals, 55 templates – Sané made considerable statistics in his 5 years with the German record champion, played 70 caps, scored 14 goals. And yet when looking at the actually so talented, but at least not always highly motivated attackers, it sounded steadily once desperate, sometimes resigned “if he were only more constant”.
Too changeable in the performances to really count as an absolute world class, but too talented, so as not to meander in their catchment area. This selective flash of playful brilliance has shaped its time at Bayern, and there is a question mark as to whether Sané can now correct this impression. Especially since it should be borne in mind that he was unable to correct this impression among four coaches in Munich, and one does not have to want to be bad to determine it in view of the mixture: he chose the simple – and highly paid – way out.