Bayern's number one transfer target: RB Leipzig announces resistance - "It will be difficult talks"
Created: 12/22/2022 5:33 am
By: Patrick Mayer
Soon teammates in Munich?
Konrad Laimer (left) from RB Leipzig and Bayern's Jamal Musiala.
© IMAGO/motivio
A change from Austria's national player Konrad Laimer to FC Bayern seems a done deal.
Max Eberl from RB Leipzig doesn't want to give him up just yet.
Munich/Leipzig – Is the struggle for this transfer a foretaste of how RB Leipzig intends to at least carefully break up FC Bayern’s supremacy in the Bundesliga under the new sporting director, Max Eberl?
Konrad Laimer's poker is now entering the next round in public.
Konrad Laimer: Change from RB Leipzig to FC Bayern is imminent
"A lot happened during the World Cup break, so I'm not ruling anything out," said Munich's sports director Hasan Salihamidzic in an interview with
Sport Bild
published this Wednesday (December 21) .
Salihamidzic continues: "We try to do the best for the team.
We will examine all options.
Especially in the goalkeeping position, but not only there.” Various media have been reporting for months that Laimer and Bayern have agreed on a change in the summer.
Eberl, on the other hand, expressed himself on Monday evening (December 19) in the "Sport and Talk" program on
ServusTV
, in which Real Madrid star David Alaba (formerly FC Bayern) also told an anecdote about Martin Hinteregger (once Eintracht Frankfurt) who was also present .
Alaba and Laimer are currently Austrian national players.
Hinteregger was also part of the ÖFB team before his surprising resignation in the summer.
The Austrian broadcaster ServusTV focuses on Austrian footballers, especially when they play for RB Leipzig.
In the case of the Saxons, the Salzburg group Red Bull is a shareholder and sponsor, and ServusTV also belongs to the group of beverage manufacturers.
The personal situation of Laimer, who is now considered the best kicker from the Alpine country alongside Alaba, is correspondingly delicate.
Max Eberl: RBL boss does not want Konrad Laimer to move to Munich without a fight
"We're trying to keep him in Leipzig," Eberl explained on the show: "He still has a six-month contract.
It's going to be difficult talks.” There was recently a quarrel about Laimer between the people of Leipzig and the German record champions.
"I hope that Bayern will find other ideas and not always get our players," said Eberl's predecessor Oliver Mintzlaff in the summer, also on ServusTV.
Mintzlaff said at the time: "It's also possible that we keep him and go into a final year of the contract and sometimes don't get a fee."
The contract of the 27-year-old midfielder ends in June 2023 in Messestadt, he could switch to Säbener Straße without transfer compensation.
FCB President Herbert Hainer replied to Mintlaff in the
picture
at the time : "It's just that many players want to go to Bayern Munich.
And if anyone wants to, we'll be happy to take a look at it."
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He still has a year and a half left on his contract.
It will be difficult conversations.
RBL boss Max Eberl on Konrad Laimer
Does Laimer's Austrian homeland also make the difference?
The soccer player is a testimonial for the tourist region of Salzburger Land.
On YouTube he says in a promotional video: "Dear Winter, there's nothing nicer than coming home when you're there.
I'm looking forward to it: to the glittering snow, to the magnificent mountains and to consciously feeling the landscape.
And I think of all the beautiful memories I had during my childhood with my family and you.
I can't wait to see you again."
Konrad Laimer: Home Salzburg an argument for FC Bayern?
His enthusiasm for Salzburg and the surrounding area is literally tangible in the YouTube video from October 2021.
And: The "Mozart city" with its approximately 150,000 inhabitants is only around two hours' drive away from the Bavarian metropolis on the Isar via the German A8 motorway.
In any case, the Konrad Laimer case remains exciting.
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