After criticism of the talents on loan: FC Bayern creates a new position for Halil Altintop

Created: 07/07/2022 13:34

Halil Altintop (centre) will be responsible for tomorrow's starts as the link between the youth and men's divisions.

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Will Halil Altintop be the star developer?

The 39-year-old gets a new job and could save FC Bayern a lot of money if he works successfully.

Munich – Year after year, talented young players from the record champions’ U23 team leave the club to develop elsewhere.

The two managers of the youth training center (NLZ), Jochen Sauer and Holger Seitz, are always looking for locations where the youngsters can improve as loan players and, ideally, return to the professional team after one or two seasons as reinforcements on Säbener Straße.

FC Bayern has been waiting for the self-trained star since the opening of the campus in 2017

The club has not yet achieved the great success of the past with David Alaba, Philipp Lahm or Toni Kroos, who have returned to FC Bayern and become top performers, since the opening of the 70-million-dollar NLZ on Ingolstädter Straße in summer 2017.

"The new FC Bayern should also be an answer to the current transfer madness and the salary explosion," announced then-President Uli Hoeneß.

Marco Friedl, now at Werder Bremen, has given the club at least one fee.

Adrian Fein is returning to the Isar after stints in Regensburg, Hamburg, Eindhoven, Fürth and most recently Dresden, but has no prospects.

Lars Lukas Mai and the two keepers Christian Früchtl and Ron-Thorben Hoffmann have now landed in Lugano, Vienna and Braunschweig.

Joshua Zirkzee (back from Anderlecht, contract until 2023) and Chris Richards (back from Hoffenheim, contract until 2025) are currently attacking again in Munich under Julian Nagelsmann, but are candidates for sale.

Defensive edge Bright Arrey-Mbi (contract until 2025) has been in Cologne since winter and is hoping for his first professional appearance under Steffen Baumgart in the new season.

FC Bayern: Halil Altintop will look after the top talents and players on loan in the future

Recently, according to tz information, criticism of the club's lack of interest in the loan players was also raised.

That should change now.

FCB has created a new position so that one of the young guns can assert itself in the star ensemble in the future.

As Bild first reported, Halil Altintop is to take the stars of the future by the hand and guide them as “transitional coordinator”.

Ex-U23 coach Danny Schwarz held a similar position last year before moving to the Würzburger Kickers as a coach.

The 47-year-old took care of the loaned players until his departure.

Altintop's job profile will be expanded a bit.

In addition to regular visits to the talents playing at another location, he will also look after the top players of the second team,

The 38-times ex-Turkey international knows what is important.

In the 2005/06 season he asserted himself as a young hopeful at 1. FC Kaiserslautern and was able to take off in professional football.

In the future he will work very closely with Julian Nagelsmann and above all with the technical director, Marco Neppe.

After Thomas Müller, a player trained at FC Bayern should finally make the leap to stardom.

The names Jamal Musiala, David Alaba and Alphonso Davies are always mentioned - but the three national players all came to Munich at the age of 16 or 18.

(Joerg Bullinger)