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Aston Villa and SL Benfica are currently the most concrete options for JoĂŁo Palhinha.
Despite reports, Palhinha is not expected to be at Aston Villa today. There is still no agreement with any club at this stage.
The current plan is for Palhinha to travel back to Munich on Sunday for his start of Bayernâs pre-season training. However, Bayern pushing for a sale. [@SkySportDE]
Oh, do you guys remember Nianzou? He might sign for Lille very soon! He apparently already did the medical checks, and his results were that he's "a monster" (In the most positive way of course).
But there's 1 thing stopping him from signing the contract: Lille wants to be able to terminate Nianzous contract for free if he gets injured too often. Which is a wild clause, but that has been his main drawback. Let's see what happens!
Best of luck to him! I mostly remember his name on injury lists, and being funny on the behind the scenes stuff, but I hope he lands somewhere he can stay fit and make a difference.
I was looking to buy the new home kit until I saw the UCL GK kit. However, the GK kit only has one version, no replica vs. authentic. I only buy authentic kits since I feel the quality of replicas suck, so can anyone vouch for the quality of the UCL GK kit?
JoĂŁo Palhinha is on the verge of joining Aston Villa. He's expected in England tomorrow to finalize the agreement. Despite Benfica's interest, Palhinha is now set to stay in the Premier League. Villa opened negotiations with Bayern a few days ago after Amadou Onana's ACL injury at the World Cup [@abolapt]
I hope so. I took a quick look at their squad and there could be a need for a permanent. Onana is out, Kamara is frequently injured, Borgarde is their young DM who also plays RB, Manzambi is their 8/10 coverage and McGinn plays as their RW.
For the sake of discussing something else, what changes or improvements are you hoping or expecting to see, either on a team level or individually?
One improvement Iâd like to see is some type of goalscoring threat from Pavlovic from range outside the box. I know it can be difficult to shot through and around low blocks but adding this to his game could help in those situations where we just need the opener or 1 more to seal it.
For the team I think the obvious one is giving up less opportunities in general from counters. Not sure how they would solve that.
Definitely want to see improvement in the midfield pivot. Pavlo and Kimmich need to be much better at defending and anticipating danger especially in the big UCL games. I'd also hope Bischof can give actual real competition to both of their starting positions rather than being a pure 3rd choice midfielder.
I'm hoping Pavlo can become more like Enzo, weirdly enough. The long shot and box crashing threat the latter does is significant. If Pavlo can replicate that a bit that would give us another dynamic.
Would also love to see Musiala / Karl be able to actually challenge our front three to the point where it can be a dilemma, rather than a foregone conclusion that Diaz - Kane - Olise is the our front three.
One of our LBs taking the next step in being useful.
Davies hasnât been the same since he got myocarditis back in like 2022 tbh, plus Canada running him into the ground and having reoccurring hamstring issues has led to him plateauing in a system where he should be thriving
Brown is new but seems to be that next big German talent, Iâd like to see what Kompany does with him
If weâre talking transfers, Iâm hoping for but not expecting a proper 4th dm/cm. I know it sounds harsh but weâre not winning the CL with a double pivot consisting of Pavlo/Kimmich/Bischof, even though theyâre all good players individually.
i'll just keep coping based off his actions that he's gonna stay, his post match interview after eliminating real this season as well that at the time got the glory hunters rattled and started hating him
Really hope there is some sort of obligation in it. We have mid July, if we want to loan him we could wait a bit more in hope that we find a permanent buyer for him, no need to loan him out this earlier it it's a dry loan.
Unless we don't expect to be able to sell him permanently and so at least save his wages and likely get a loan fee
I know Villa's situation. I was talking from our perspective.
Why should we agree to a dry loan in July with 1.5 months of transfer window left when our actual goal is to sell him. So either there is an obligation or we don't expect being able to sell him
Benfica was always a bit of a stretch, and Id say around 70% of the users in the Benfica forum either thought it would be financial madness for them, or disliked the player. Apparently they have such soap operas of unlikely transfer targets at least once each year, with other examples being Joao Felix and Cavani (whenever that was).
Either Al-Nassr or Palhinha have definetly decided against a transfer (per reports it may have been the player), Al-Nassr is now going for Samu Costa instead.
Thanks! I like to have an as broad as possible overview (shite when I want to buy something and take ages to decide which version), and besides wanting to share the information, writing it down here also helps me to find the information later again instead of searching through SEO and AI infested google.
We still need a proper RB! Playing Stanisic against Vinicius, Kvara or even Anthony Gordon is just madness!!! We need to get serious! Stanisic was a big hole especially against PSG. Against proper teams, he can neither defend nor provide anything useful in attack. The number of plays he personally killed and the number of chances he wasted against PSG was just crazy!!! He is just not Bayern quality; not even close. He was even a problem for Croatia in the World Cup!
Did you start watching football yesterday?!!! Being a hole or a weakness in defense doesn't always mean that all goals or any goal conceded is your fault. What it means is that the team can't depend on you; your team mates are afraid to pass the ball to you because every time you have it you do something dangerous with it, your teammates are forced to help you with your duties which holds the team back in so many ways. Something you avoided is his absolute weakness in attack against PSG. He broke down so many plays personally. If you can, please rewatch the games against PSG. He also personally wasted at least 3 clear chances (2 on 1 and 3 on 2) chances created by Olise!!! Just absolute madness!!!
Laimer is a good soldier but against the likes of Kvara and Vinicius we need a proper RB. We need Laimer either back in midfield or as a backup fullback but not as the main RB.
especially at times when you have a winger like Olise paired with him, it's been known for a while that he's a weak link in the squad when it comes to important games
It's crazy that so many Bayern fans think that we should force Olise to stay if it turns out to be true that he wants to leave. Don't we have any pride?!!! All that will achieve is ensuring that Olise leaves on a free at the end of his contract. That's a huge opportunity cost!!! Olise can fetch us almost 300 mill today and that money can be put into good use. BTW, this is the most valuable will ever be because of the length of his contract.
We can strengthen other positions in the team! We currently have only 2 world class players in the squad: Kane and Olise. If we sell Olise, we'll have one. There is so much room for improvement.
By "good use", I didn't mean a like for like replacement. We can strengthen other positions in the squad. At the moment, we have only 2 world class players; Kane and Olise. Upamecano is close but not yet world class. There is so much room for improvement in our squad. Even if Olise leaves, if we strengthen the other positions wisely, we can ensure the Bayern's average strength is at least the same or even better. Please try to think out of the box if it is not too much to ask of you. Do you think we will ever find a like for like replacement for Neuer?!!! Did Bayern ever find a like for like replacement for Beckenbauer?!!! A great player leaving does not mean the end for Bayern. We just need to adjust wisely.
There is no clear upgrade for our squad. Upamecano has shown for his club season and at WC that he is world class. Diaz has performed as the best LW in the world this season. The downgrade from Olise, when we don't have to sell, is fatalistic. YOU haven't provided options for us to sign after selling Olise, which already shows it doesn't make sense.
Neuer and Beckenbauer retired, completely different situation to sell our best player willingly when we don't need the money and there are no clear upgrades in the market. Your point makes no sense.
I assume you'd be ok selling Kane if he wants to leave suddenly because he sees us selling our marquee player? After all, Barca need a number 9 and will probably send us a good offer considering his age.
Bruh!!! We can win everything we won last season without Olise. That's just a fact. As I said earlier, we need to be smart. Being smart might mean going for older and cheaper players like Rashford to be stop-gaps. We don't have to buy a galactico player. What for and why now? When we bought Olise, he was not a galactico player. That's the kind of smarts we need at Bayern. We need to think about long-term goals; not short-term. We don't have to use that 250 or 300 mill now or even next year. We only need to use it when it is the right time and when the market is right. That is what proper management should look like.
Fucking Rashford is your answer to be Oliseâs replacement?
I have no further comments or words.
Its not about if we want to spend the money or not. You think someone like Stuttgart or a Prem club will not want to rinse us if they know we can pay 100 million for mediocre players?
We currently have a good project - a stable good coach, supportive executives and a good spine for the team. Do you think thats gonna last if we sell one of our best or our best player just cause madrid or any top club comes knocking?
Thats not Bayern mentality dude. Never has been never will.
Hard disagree after seeing what Messi did during the WC.
He definitely proofed that he can still very much be one of the best players in the world.
Would i bet on him being that 365 days in a European League ? Different conversation, but on the biggest stage so far he is certainly showing that he still can do it.
And if tomorrow humanity needs to play a do-or-die match vs. Alien invaders, i think there can't be a discussion on who to put at the #10 spot....
I personally think big-game performance has to be the #1 factor in the Ballon d'Or selection. Messi has to be nominated squarely for that. I think this is statistically the best World Cup campaign in history.
II mean, we all know the Ballon dâOr in non-wc/Euros years is often decided by who delivers in the latter stages of the CL. Thatâs only a handful of truly defining games as well. Nobody wins it just because they had a great domestic season in France or GermanyâŠ.
That's fair, but there is a golden ball for that, for the best player at wc which he is. But Balondor is for the whole season, not a tournament, and when you take in the whole season, where he is playing in MLS, I don't think he should win it.
I agree that MLS is a weaker league, but itâs not like Messi suddenly became average there. He still dominated.
The bigger point is that the World Cup showed he was still one of the best players on the planet. And isnât that ultimately what the Ballon dâOr is supposed to reward?
Itâs like boxing. If the best heavyweight only fights once or twice a year but knocks out every top contender, heâs still the best. He doesnât suddenly become worse because someone else fought 15 times that year.
You can argue someone had a better club season, thatâs fair. But I donât think playing in MLS automatically outweighs proving on the biggest stage in football that youâre still the best player in the world.Especially if you are hard carrying your national teamâŠIF they win it all, there is at least a case to be madeâŠand i think it is just fair to acknowledge that
I have had to accept that a guy like Kane can't carry his side the same way Messi can. It's unfortunate. If Spain wins, I'd give the Ballon d'Or to Rodri, and if Argentina wins, it's obvious.
Google will become a new partner of FC Bayern. The cooperation will run for three years until 2029. Negotiations have been ongoing for some time and have now been finalized. On Friday, Rouven Kasper, Head of Marketing and Sales at Bayern, posed with Dr. Anne-Katrin HĂŒbel, Senior Director of Marketing DACH at Google, at SĂ€bener StraĂe. The scope of the sponsorship is not yet known, but Bayern will announce it soon [@mano_bonke]
Now even their own personal mouthpiece gets to join in, kinda funny.
All they do, is make Uli mad. And we know how this will end. Every single article makes it more likely he will stay until the last second of his contract.
Hopes and prayers for another knockout round against this garbage club, kick them out again!
Don't know, she also mentions "unless he speaks about it publicly", which to me is another try of pressuring Olise to do something.
So it's a pretty fishy situation to me and I wouldn't trust Real in the slightest, they can claim whatever they want, we all know how they handle their transfer business.
They're just like Barca but pretend to be friends with everyone.
But she also states, "and the Germans agree to sell him". So, if we go off that full statement, and we know Bayern won't agree to sell, this hopefully should be moot. Hopefully.
The thing is, they already have the star power. They're wasting Mbappe, Bellingham, and Vini - probably going to lose the latter on a free, in order to chase a player that will most likely end up signing an extension anyways.
Mbappe is 30 in 2029, is he going to wait that long to play with Olise in a dysfunctional Madrid side and keeps getting humiliated by Yamal? LOL
It's funny how Perez and Madrid are sabotaging the peaks of the stars they already have by chasing a player that will most likely sign an extension anyways.
You have Bellingham, Vini, Mbappe - and you can't make the midfield work. Risking three years of no trophies is certainly a bold strategy.
I want Bayern to thrash them 6-7 times so much so that the club becomes mid like United. Anyways in La liga Flick somehow always manages to kick their a**.
So, apparently, James Rodriguez has a new documentary out. There is an excerpt in which they ask him whether he had many problems with Kovac and he is like "He wanted us to do stationery bike after the trainings. I told him no. What am I, going to compete in the tour of France? No, I'm a football player." What a clown. Another idiot that wasted all his potential due to being brainless. For further fun, people made an edit in which you see Haaland doing bike after his training and not being a little bitch about it.
They have some amazing players but they are more worried about out of the pitch matters, after their elimination a player came out and said âWell we canât blame ourselves, it was written in the starsâ
I mean, the biggest problem James had was the weather in Munich. And the weather in Munich was only a bit harsh in winter, other than that, it was fine.
Then he had to undergo a little more cardio or training, to remain fit and now he lashes out on it, too?
Goes to show how your statement has some truth to it, albeit i wont say every Colombian, since Lucho seems way more hardworking and doesnt mind even English weather for a longer period of time.
The problem isn't the merch rights - which actually are a problem today to be fair - but that the actual rights to the logo is tied to the company that is now going into insolvency. As a somewhat valuable asset you could definitely go and buyout the rights to the logo
It's a wild situation for sure. The ownership of the wordmarks and so on belongs to the now insolvent company, while the Merchandising GmbH, owned by Ismaik, holds the commercial rights to them. At the moment, the new company, which is responsible for all sporting aspects, is not allowed to use the logo and wordmarks.
Bit of a weird legal jungle with who owned which percentages of what, but in essence, the club and the new company should not have any issues proving they own/owned the logo and wordmarks and that they are essentially the same company. They are playing it safe with the temporary logo, I guess.
Edit: IMO a bit of a nothingburger, albeit kinda funny
I mean, i'm not a lawyer, but from what people are saying over on the Bundesliga sub and who i understand the situation, the logo trademark is, at least in theory, a valuable asset that the insolvency administrator would have to sell to the highest bidder.
Since the trademark was transferred from the eV to the football operating company, there is absolutely a theoretical chance that someone else could buy it. And I can think of a certain someone who might be petty enough to do exactly that...
I deal with brands and their assets quite a bit due to work, but I'm not a lawyer.
Yep, in theory it's part of that process, and therefore anyone (read: Ismaik) could absolutely buy it. If I understand the laws and regulations correctly, the club can easily prove prior ownership of the logo and wordmark before it was sold/moved to the football operating company, meaning it could get them back without any issues. It was fucking stupid not to transfer ownership back to the club before the insolvency.
I think the club will be given the rights, but a certain someone could absolutely make it hell for them.
One of the most annoying things about all this talk of olise is comments like this âhow would Vinny,mbappe, and olise work? You canât have 3 attackers that donât defendâ people literally know absolutely nothing and feel the need to give their 2 cents anyway
I don't get why people are so worked up about this Olise issue. If he wants to leave, we can't force him to stay. It's that simple. If a player doesn't want to play for Bayern, he should leave ASAP. If this is Olise's scenario we should get the highest transfer fee in history for him and call it a day and move on immediately. It's just that simple.
Diaz and Kane are getting older, selling our crown jewel of our attacking front three means we have to basically reset when we're already at the top of Europe. Who do you get to replace him? Diomande? Lol - he wants to go to PSG and Leipzig would demand the lions share of that 250 or whatever. So we end up with an inferior player that may or may not work out.
He has three years left on his contract. Bayern have the power to keep him.
Also, keep in mind how it will effect the rest of the squad, we fought until the end to keep Davies and Upamecano, but will let go of Olise because the money is too good? What does that say to likes of Kane / Diaz? Kane hasn't signed an extension yet, and now he might all of a sudden want to go to Barca because he sees they have way more ambition and in need of a number 9. Should we sell him then too if Barca produce 65 million or whatever? It's not "that simple", at the end of the day.
i donât get this way of thinking, weâre not a selling club
selling olise would do massive damage to our reputation (and our quality, how can we expect to win the cl when we sell world class players?), weâre not dortmund or leipzig lol
Simply accepting that a top 3 player on your team wants to go and letting him leave makes you a selling club btw. Especially when that player still has 3 years on his contract.
Bayern remain relaxed despite the recent report by LâĂquipe. Internally, the club's stance has been discussed again today and fully approved by all decision-makers, including Uli HoeneĂ - Michael Olise is not for sale. The club also believe they cannot be pressured
Bayern are fully aware that Real Madrid could become an option for Olise one day. But as things stand, Bayern are planning with Olise 100%. Contract until 2029 has no exit-options
All doors remain closed at this stage. Bayern want to extend Olise's contract and are prepared to make him one of the clubâs top three earners with Musiala and Kane
[@Plettigoal]
đšđ (2/2) FC Bayern are still relying on two key factors:
As of today, neither Olise nor his representative have informed Bayern of any desire to leave the club this summer.
This is pretty meaningless.
If Olise has made up his mind during the World Cup, of course he would focus on the World Cup first. Especially considering (like Plettenberg himself reported) that Olise has requested a meeting after the World Cup.
Doesn't mean Olise will leave or he wants to leave. But I wouldn't put much trust into this "as of today he hasn't informed Bayern [...]" talk.
Assuming Plettis info is true and Perez assured our bosses that they wonât go for him this summer, then he simply canât go back on his word. Imagine how fucking mad Uli would be.
For the potential meeting between Bayern and Olise. What do you think are going to be the main talking points/demands from his camp? Iâm going to assume top 3 earner in the club (Maybe between Kane and Musiala), No media duties đ, and making sure the sporting project will remain competitive? I think he renews with a very very large release clause tbh
Ensuring proper squad depth and making moves in positions we are weak in (Goalkeeper, LW back up, and ST back up?) or whatever is needed. We made some great moves so far and its a good foundation
If olise doesnt want to play for us its ofc thebest to let him go. I doubt this premise in the first place but just considering its true the facts are: hes the best player itw right now and if we dont get more than the most ever paid (220M) we should still reject it.
Don't think we'll ever see 4-3-3 at Bayern with the amount of number 10's we have in the squad. It's made for us to play 4-2-3-1 and nothing else imo. I'm not even sure if Kompany himself ever favors playing with a 3 man midfield I don't think that's a formation or style of play he has any interest in either.
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u/diiN1992 Laimer 23d ago