🤔 From Kane to chaos: have Bayern lost their touch in the transfer market?! | OneFootball

That was probably nothing - that was the conclusion of many football fans after the deadline day looking at the past transfer summer of FC Bayern Munich. This was closely followed by the question: Has Bayern forgotten how to operate in the transfer market?

After all the haggling around Nicolas Jackson, there was at least a happy ending in this case. The deal, which was already considered to have fallen through, still went ahead: The Munich team secured the services of the Chelsea player for one year and around 16 million euros in loan fees.

More Flops than Tops

However, this can certainly not disguise the fact that shooting star Florian Wirtz preferred a move to Liverpool and did not sign for the record champions. Or that Stuttgart put a big spanner in the works of Bayern and Nick Woltemade's plans for a move - he also ended up in the Premier League instead.

Also targeted transfers of Nico Williams and Bradley Barcola as Sané replacements did not go ahead. On the other hand, in addition to Sané, Thomas Müller, Kingsley Coman and Mathys Tel also left the club. Talent Paul Wanner followed the big stars abroad, probably with the desire for more playing time.

The king transfer is now Luis Díaz, for whom around 70 million euros were put on the table. Jonathan Tah from Leverkusen and Tom Bischoff from Hoffenheim came on a free transfer.

Squad quality, but not enough depth?

The unanimous conclusion of many experts after the transfer summer and looking at the still so young season: The squad is strongly staffed in terms of quality, but the second suit does not really fit. Many are sure: It will be enough for the championship in the Bundesliga, but in the Champions League it will probably be difficult to be at the top in the end.

But why is it that the management of FC Bayern is having almost as much trouble in the transfer market as the players in the first cup round against Wehen Wiesbaden and Max Eberl is already fearing for his job again? According to many football observers, this is partly due to the fact that the Premier League has much larger financial resources to bring the deals of their desired players under one roof. But it's also about prestige. At least that's what ex-pro Thomas Helmer suspected when looking at the transfer events on 'BR television': "When FC Bayern called, we came. They have lost this status."

Kane transfer & then long nothing

And probably not just recently. We all remember the summer two years ago when the signing of Harry Kane was the number one summer gap topic. Critics also worked on this transfer: The English national striker was a financial risk, and it was not clever to shell out 100 million euros for a 30-year-old who was "only the short-term solution" and not the future of FC Bayern. In addition, he had the title curse - he had not been able to win a title with either Tottenham or the national team until then.

Typically, the Englishman silenced these critics himself - on the pitch. In his debut season, he became (together with Mbappé) top scorer in the Champions League (8 goals) and in the Bundesliga (36 goals), in the following season he won the German Championship and was again top scorer in 2024/25 (26 goals). He also started the current season with the Supercup win and thus with a title.

All in all, the 100 million euros have paid off in retrospect, and to call Harry Kane the king transfer of Bayern is certainly anything but presumptuous. The question remains: What came next? Alongside Kane, Kim Min-jae, Konrad Laimer and Raphaël Guerreiro were signed, among others. Last year, the big transfers were those of Michael Olise and João Palhinha. Certainly a lot of quality, especially since Olise had a strong debut season. However, a real king transfer is probably rather hard to find in this list.

Lost touch internationally?

Again this year, the big coups did not work out. So it's only understandable that many fans are worried - about the fact that with FC Bayern, the last German candidate for the top spots in international club football is slowly losing touch with the "big ones". On the one hand, because the breadth of the squad does not satisfy many, and on the other hand, because the numerous transfer poker games in which FC Bayern came away empty-handed this summer do not exactly give much hope that the future Florian Wirtzs or Nick Woltemades will opt for a move to the Bundesliga giant instead of going abroad.

What do you think? Is the completed transfer summer a cause for concern, or do you consider the current squad of FC Bayern to be competitive with Real, PSG, Barça & Co.?

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