These are the most important facts before the Bundesliga restart
After a long winter break, the ball is rolling again in the Bundesliga on Friday. Bayern are still looking for a goalkeeper before the restart, Borussia Dortmund is hoping for Sebastien Haller to return – and worries about relegation are piling up in the pot.
FC Bayern’s tedious poker game involving Yann Sommer is over. The goalkeeper moves to Munich to replace the injured Manuel Neuer. He’s supposed to play on Friday. Borussia Mönchengladbach has already found a successor.
Dhe FC Bayern gets his dream solution in the goalkeeper position. The deal was perfect on Wednesday afternoon: the league leaders from Munich signed Yann Sommer (34) from Borussia Mönchengladbach to replace captain Manuel Neuer (36), who was injured until the end of the season. First reported “Blick”. Sommer is to receive a contract with the German record champions until 2025.
The two clubs had gambled on the transfer fee until the very end. Only the medical check was still pending in the early afternoon. “It’s always advisable if you have a solution for the first competitive game,” said Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann on Wednesday afternoon with a view to the first Bundesliga game of the second half of the season at RB Leipzig on Friday (8.30 p.m., Sat.1 and DAZN).
Up until then, Bayern only had one experienced goalkeeper behind Neuer in Sven Ulreich (34).
Julian Nagelsmann only had Sven Ulreich and some talented goalkeepers with him in training
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The first games of the second half of the season are getting closer, Nagelsmann wished for a quick clarification in goalkeeper poker on Wednesday afternoon. “We want to have a decision, in whatever direction,” he said. “It’s normal that at some point you want the necessary rest in the position and it doesn’t go in forever.”
Mönchengladbach had given the Bayern managers the promise on Tuesday: If the purchase of Jonas Omlin (29) from the French first division club Montpellier works out this winter, Borussia would accept the Munich offer. Bayern pay eight million plus 1.5 million bonuses for the summer (if they win the Champions League). Omlin agrees with Borussia and will probably receive a contract with Mönchengladbach until 2027, the four-time Swiss national player is still under contract in France until 2024.
France’s superstar Kylian Mbappe (l.) from Paris St. Germain falls in front of Montpellier’s goalkeeper Jonas Omlin (r). there. Omlin should agree with Borussia Mönchengladbach
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„Brazzo (Sports Director Salihamidzic, d. editor), Was (CEO Oliver Kahn), Marco Neppe (technical director) work – attention pun – summer and winter always on ways to strengthen the squad, and that is still the case, “said Nagelsmann at noon.
According to Nagelsmann, a new goalkeeper can quickly coordinate with the people in front of him. “About 15 minutes,” said the Bayern coach about the duration. Of course, it also depends on the goalkeeper and his style of play. “It’s definitely not rocket science, what you first have to study for six months.” That probably means: Sommer should already be playing in Leipzig.
“Ulreich can live well with both situations”
Should Bayern win in Leipzig, they would already have a nine-point lead over Saxony. “It’s an important game, also in tabular terms. Leipzig is one of the main competitors for the championship,” said Nagelsmann.
“They are in a very good mood under Marco Rose, they are the best team with us in terms of points and have been unbeaten for ages. A nine-point lead would be a good cushion. If we should lose, it’s very exciting again and then we’re under more pressure to act in the Bundesliga than if we were to win. So it’s an important game.”
He has already decided on six positions with regard to the line-up for the game. He had to sleep twice more about the rest, Nagelsmann said on Wednesday afternoon. The recently injured Matthijs de Ligt, Leon Goretzka and Kingsley Coman are fit.
And the most important question, namely that of the new goalkeeper, has now been clarified. It was a very successful Wednesday for FC Bayern.
