“I don’t understand why Barca openly and attack our player so openly. Joshua Kimmich is a cornerstone for us.” Last June, Herbert Hainer, the new president of Bayern Munich, was not happy at all. For what ? Simply because Xavi had expressed his admiration for his midfielder at a press conference. Not enough, a priori, to trigger a media war. But in Munich, much more than elsewhere, we want to be the guarantor of a certain code of honor which would aim not to mention the fate of players under contract. Last year, the Bavarians resented Barcelona for having opened discussions with Robert Lewandowski without them having authorized them.
Except that Bayern now has a hard time following the principles it defends tooth and nail. The Harry Kane case has definitely swung the venerable FCB to the dark side of the transfer window. The England international striker “has in all conversations made it very clear that his decision has been made” to join the German champions this summer “and if he stays there, we will have him and Tottenham will give in”, declared micro open to journalists Uli Hoeness, honorary president of Bayern. Until proven otherwise, Kane is still a Spurs player.
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Uli Hoeness, Thomas Tuchel
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I don’t want to buy a player for 150 or 200 million euros, I don’t want to participate in such madness
“Tottenham are not qualified next season” for any of the European competitions, “unlike our club,” Hoeness added in a charge quite clearly aimed at putting pressure on the English club with only one remaining. one year of contract to Kane and that he could leave for free in 2024. An attitude that Bayern has always refused to adopt so far. The German champions, who, moreover, have always worked in the shadows to frame inflation in the transfer market, have always sworn that they would never climb to crazy heights for one and the same individuality.
“I don’t want to buy a player for 150 or 200 million euros, I don’t want to participate in such madness, these are things that we totally refuse at Bayern”, swore Uli Hoeness in 2017. Six years later, he is about to fall into line and spend, like Manchester City, Barça or PSG before him, 100 million euros for a striker. So for this 180 degree turn? What then pushes Bayern to follow the pack? A failed season for sure. We must remember that it took a real miracle, and a collapse of Dortmund on the last day, for the title of champion not to escape Thomas Tuchel and his men.
Harry Kane (Tottenham) against Alphonse Davies (Bayern Munich)
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In the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the Germans did not exist against the future winner Manchester City (3-0, 1-1). And they quickly understood that Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting will not be enough to fulfill their European ambitions. Did Bayern give in to a sin of pride by not replacing position for position Robert Lewandowski last summer? Kane would fill the gaping void left by the Pole. A scorer of his caliber on the transfer market and ready to come to Germany, it does not happen every four mornings. A priori, Bayern is, this time, ready to do anything to achieve its ends.
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