"Key to success" in danger: Bayern leaders apparently sounded the alarm among the bosses

The FC Bayern team council apparently worried about compliance with the sporting goals for 2020/21 - and made a request to the leadership.

• Did five

  Bayern

  professionals

  recently

  express

  their dissatisfaction with the squad planning?

• A media report says: The team from Munich had

  sounded the alarm

  on the management floor before the transfer deadline had expired

  .

• The request was

  complied with

  : a little later, the German record champions

  fixed

  further

  newcomers

  .

Munich - Shortly before the end of the most recent changeover period (extended due to Corona),

struck

five times on the transfer market and

comprehensively

strengthened the squad of the

.

Apparently, not only the

around sports director Hasan Salihamidzic considered these changes to be extremely important.

FC Bayern: team council sounds the alarm?

Club management reacts with a transfer offensive

Rather, the

the

is said to have previously

seen

itself

forced to sound the alarm due to the fact that the squad was too thin and to seek a conversation with those responsible.

According to

, the five actors Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski, David Alaba and Thomas Müller came

present the matter in an "elephant round".

In addition to “Brazzo”, board boss

, board member

and president

involved in the joint meeting.

The key point was communicated by vice-captain Lewandowski: The

was the key to success at the end of last season.

And that was precisely what the squad presented at the beginning of October 2020 was not enough for the ambitious sporting goals.

The concerns of the leading players were heard: FCB struck five more times * on the transfer market after only Leroy Sané, Tanguy Nianzou and Alexander Nübel were originally signed.

Bayern Munich: "Squad planning is not a matter for the team"

Is the

report

Statements that Salihamidzic

communicated

in

after the

loaned out seem a bit piquant

: "At Bayern, the tasks and competencies have been clearly divided for decades: the team plays football, the club management takes care of the squad," said the 43 year old.

"This is not

It's up to the team, ”he said, speaking of a“ fairy tale ”.

Which speaks in favor of structured personnel planning in both cases:

has a “shadow list” on which there are numerous professionals from other clubs that are kept in view on Säbener Straße *.

The five newcomers were then picked out of this, although not every player was the favored solution.

, who had long been targeted by

, is

cited

as an example

.

FC Bayern have Zakaria in their sights - two newcomers came as substitutes for the midfield

Accordingly,

from Borussia Mönchengladbach

was allegedly

a coveted transfer target.

Two things moved FCB to the Spanish midfielder: The Gladbach player has been suffering from a serious injury since spring 2020, and the Swiss would have been much more expensive than the newcomer from relegated Espanyol Barcelona (nine million euros).

As a second addition to the midfield squad,

from Benfica Lisbon was struck.

Another example of this “shadow list” is

: When Ajax star

for FC Barcelona, ​​the 28-year-old from Olympique Marseille was getting serious.

The reigning Champions League winner starts the group stage of the premier class on Wednesday with a difficult game against Atletico Madrid.

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