Bayern Munich Prepares for Spring Season: Winter Transfer Market and Defensive Reinforcements

2024-01-02 17:40:14

After twelve days of Christmas vacation the German series champion has Bayern Munich Preparation for the spring season started on Tuesday. Trainer Thomas Tuchel But he still has to wait for his New Year’s wishes to come true and has started training without the planned defensive reinforcements. The Austrian Bayern sports director Christoph Freund still wants to be active on the winter transfer market.

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“We know that we have a need. We were pretty much at the last stretch in terms of personnel,” said Freund. Tuchel often had to improvise in defense and in the defensive midfield and was once once more faced with a defensive bottleneck right at the start of the year. Central defender Minjae Kim will be active for South Korea at the Asian Cup in Qatar until February 10th at the latest and has also become a full-back Noussair Mazraoui Called up by the Moroccan national coach for the Africa Cup of Nations (January 13th to February 11th) despite injury.

But in Munich they know from experience: Winter shopping is complicatedt, costly and carries risks. “Winter is not that easy,” remarked Freund, once the architect of Salzburg’s successful team. “It is very difficult to get players in the middle of the season that we are 100 percent convinced of,” admitted Tuchel.

Desired candidate from Uruguay

Candidates include: Arnau Martinez (20/FC Girona) oder Clement Lenglet (28), who is on loan from FC Barcelona to Aston Villa. Was considered the preferred candidate Ronald Araújo (24). However, the Uruguayan is still tied to FC Barcelona in the long term and is no longer considered a hot lead. Tuchel’s desire for a defensive-minded midfielder has, for the time being, slipped behind a defensive solution on the priority list.

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