Football: Austrian Sabitzer signs until 2025 at Bayern Munich

RB Leipzig’s Austrian international and midfielder Marcel Sabitzer has signed a contract until 2025 with rivals Bayern Munich, the German champion announced on Monday. The amount of the transfer was not communicated but, according to several German media, the Bavarians would have spent some 15 million euros to buy the last year of the contract of the playing master of the “Roten Bullen”.

This is the third recruit nabbed by the Rekordmeister during this transfer window from his Saxon dolphin, after the French defender Dayot Upamecano (42 million euros) and the 34-year-old prodigy trainer Julian Nagelsmann (some 25 million euros). euros).

“Marcel Sabitzer brings everything a player needs at FC Bayern“, said Oliver Kahn, president of Bayern.”He will also not need a long period of acclimatization because he is already very familiar with the philosophy of our trainer.“, he added.

Tolisso threatened?

Until now captain of Leipzig, the 27-year-old Austrian who comes out of a Euro ends up with his national team will however have a lot to do to make a place for himself in the system in 4-2-3-1 already well established. Bavarian where Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka are well established in midfield.

He will already have to recover from his adductor muscle injury which has forced him to forfeit at least Austria’s next two World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Israel. His arrival is also bad news for French world champion Corentin Tolisso, little spared from injury since joining Germany in 2017 and from whom Bayern is seeking to part by the end of the summer transfer window which ends on Tuesday.