Bayern Munich contract talks to begin with stalwarts

Bayern Munich will be giving several long-serving players priority in forthcoming contract talks, club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says. Photo: Michael Dalder/Reuters

Bayern Munich will be giving several long-serving players priority in forthcoming contract talks, club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says. Photo: Michael Dalder/Reuters

Published Jan 28, 2020

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MUNICH – Bayern Munich will be giving several long-serving

players priority in forthcoming contract talks, club chairman

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says.

"We have a few players who still have a contract of 1.5 years. We are

going to have talks with them first," he said in an an interview to

be published Wednesday

Rummenigge said players like captain and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer,

midfielders Thomas Mueller, Javi Martinez and Thiago Alcantara, or

defenders Jerome Boateng and David Alaba had made "a great

contribution" to Bayern.

"Of course, we will talk to these players with great sensitivity

before we make any decisions," he told Muenchner Merkur and tz

dailies.

Record Bundesliga champions Bayern are expected to enter the transfer

market in the summer and could break the 100-million-euro mark if

mooted big signings of Leroy Sane (Manchester City) or Kai Havertz

(Bayer Leverkusen) go ahead.

Rummenigge said Bayern were not interested in setting new transfer

records but fees were spiralling upwards.

"But what worries me a lot more than the transfer development is the

salary development. It is dizzying," he said.

Rummenigge said clubs must invest more in young players, citing

19-year-old Alphonso Davies, who joined Bayern in January 2019 from

Vancouver Whitecaps, even if not every young player can make it as a

first-team starter.

dpa

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