Bayern's need is getting bigger - Nagelsmann for winter transfers: "You have many advantages from it"

Created: 01/17/2022, 15:15

Coach Julian Nagelsmann is "a friend of winter transfers" - FC Bayern could use reinforcements given the critical personnel situation.

Munich – The staffing level is thin at Bayern.

Corona hits the club hard, as was already shown in the second half of the season against Borussia Mönchengladbach, when Julian Nagelsmann's starting eleven lined up almost by itself.

Now Alphonso Davies is no longer an option due to heart muscle inflammation.

Will the club do more before the transfer window closes?

The coach, on the other hand, is open.

“I always think about transfers.

That's part of my job," said Nagelsmann at the press conference before the game in Cologne.

The coach continues: "I'm a big fan of winter transfers.

You have many advantages from this.

You mix up the team a bit, create a bit of new hierarchies.

Everyone has to prove themselves again.

And above all, you give newcomers six months to acclimatise.

And in the pre-season he's there right from the start.”

Julian Nagelsmann: "Winter market is very difficult, very expensive, complicated"

Nagelsmann still considers the winter market to be “very difficult, very expensive, complicated.

There are significantly fewer players there.

We didn't have any spectators before Christmas, we don't have any spectators now.

There is also no oil well gushing out of Säbener Straße.

It's rather difficult to sign good players in winter."

It is “not an obligation for us to get someone.

But there's no harm either," explains Nagelsmann, but adds: "It's not impossible." The financial framework is limited.

Nagelsmann warns: "We already have something to do with the failures."

FC Bayern Munich: Will the club get a new left-back in winter?

A few weeks ago things were very different.

Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic said in the last first round game against VfL Wolfsburg: "Reinforcements are not an issue at all.

We're really well-stocked and we're going into the season like this.”

Since then, the shock messages at FCB have piled up.

In addition to the corona infected, who, apart from Lucas Hernandez, should at least move back to the reserve bench, and the Africa Cup drivers Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Buona Sarr, Leon Goretzka (knee problems) and now Davies are also absent.

First options might be a defensive all-rounder or a trained left-back.