Leroy Sané still needs a medical check, Tanguy Nianzou is already there: Hasan Salihamidzic, who is often skeptically accompanied, immediately attracts attention when he joins the board.
With a subtle smile, Hasan Salihamidzic looks at the young man sitting next to him in a black suit and white shirt. For months, Salihamidzic will later say, he worked towards welcoming this player to Bayern Munich in Munich, and of course he wants to savor this moment. The smile widened.
Salihamidzic’s joy is suddenly interrupted, through the door Hansi Flick enters the press room. The young new guy gets up, a punch with his future coach, then Flick leaves again. “Thank you, Hansi!” Salihamidzic calls after him. Then he looks over at his entrance with a smile.
Salihamidzic is extremely proud this Wednesday afternoon; this is also because he is allowed to introduce the French Tanguy Nianzou Kouassi, 18, at a video press conference.
But not only. Wednesday is Salihamidzic’s first day as FC Bayern’s sports director, after three years with the “director” tag, which is less respected in the industry. Like hardly any other person in charge of sport in the Bundesliga, Salihamidzic’s work has been consistently skeptically accompanied, sometimes even by people from the club or its immediate surroundings. However, Salihamidzic succeeds in attracting proper attention when he joins the board.
The 24-year-old Sané receives a five-year contract in Munich
The club sends a message at 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning announcing Tanguy Nianzou’s commitment, as he calls himself. Later at lunchtime, Salihamidzic described this approach as “one of the best players in Europe in his year”, he raves about his opening, his “very good” technique, his header strength, and of course Nianzou also brings with him a characteristic that the manager Salihamidzic the important thing is that he can play in several positions. He is a trained central defender, says Nianzou, in this position he was trained at his previous club, Paris Saint-Germain (from which he comes free), but he could also play on the so-called six, so “a little before the defense “, like in the current season six times for the PSG professionals.
New talent in the Bundesliga: Tanguy Nianzou Kouassi (left) comes from Paris St. Germain – FCB sports director Hasan Salihamidzic presents him.
(Photo: Alexander Hassenstein / Getty)
Nianzou, who has played for French national youth teams 41 times, is a player for the future. And so he will be able to cope with the fact that shortly before 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning and even afterwards, interest will be directed to a player who is to shape the game of Bayern in the present.
According to SZ information, Leroy Sané will switch to Munich for the new season; the image and the Guardian had already reported this on Tuesday evening. So both Bayern should agree with Sané as well as the two clubs. However, the contracts have not yet been signed on Wednesday; Sané was expected in Munich later in the day to complete the mandatory medical check on Thursday. If this does not raise any ambiguities, Sané will reportedly sign a five-year contract. “I can confirm,” says Salihamidzic at noon with a lot of routine on the board, “that we are in very good discussions with the management of Leroy Sané”, and “of course” also with Manchester City. Then it was again, his fine smile.
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