With his continued commitment to wanting to put his head down, work hard, and try to work his way into more consistent minutes a Bayern Munich, it’s difficult to not have at least some level of admiration for João Palhinha. After all, his move to Bayern was in the final hours of being wrapped up back in the summer of 2023, but it fell through at the last minute and he cut an entirely distraught figure on his way back to the Munich airport to head back to England.
Nonetheless, Palhinha’s tenure with
the Bundesliga champions ever since joining from Fulham last summer hasn’t quite gone according to plan. Including the FIFA Club World Cup, the Portuguese midfielder made a total of 25 appearances across all competitions, most of which were substitute appearances, and he failed to register either a goal or assist all season. Of course, the muscular injury he was dealing with from November to midway through January saw him miss a considerable number of matches for Bayern, which made it all the more difficult to try to work his way back into the team after getting fully fit again.
Now, per information from Sky Sport’s Florian Plettenberg (via @iMiaSanMia), Palhinha’s camp is growing increasingly open to potentially moving away from Bayern this summer. Nothing is concrete at this stage as to whether he would definitely stay or leave, but there have been clubs that have shown interest in him, including Manchester United, who just recently agreed on terms to sign Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford.
With the main focus for Bayern’s front office currently being both Nick Woltemade from VfB Stuttgart and Luis Diaz from Liverpool, any potential move for Palhinha, if something does wind up happening, could likely take up until the end of next month, when the transfer window closes. His current contract with the club runs through June 2028 and he is currently valuated at 30 million euros.
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