Adam Aznou’s desire to leave Bayern Munich has been a very open secret for some time now, despite signing a professional contract just last year. Despite many links to Spain, the Moroccan international turned his attention to the Premier League’s Everton FC. And now the move is official, as Bayern’s official website confirms:
Adam Aznou is moving from FC Bayern to English Premier League club Everton. The 19-year-old Morocco international joined the German record champions in the summer of 2022 and
ADwas handed a contract until June 2027.
FC Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund had this to say about the sale: “Adam Aznou has developed steadily at FC Bayern and has become a Morocco international during his time here. As Adam’s primary goal was to show what he can do ahead of next year’s World Cup and this was his absolute priority, granting this urgent transfer request was the best decision for all parties involved.”
If getting regular game time in order to regularly break into Morocco’s first team for the 2026 World Cup was a priority for the FC Barcelona youngster, a move to the Premier League was perhaps an unusual choice.
Interestingly, Bayern also directly linked another article alongside the official press release. In the other article, Bayern board member for sport Max Eberl took the opportunity to address youth player integration at the club: “We regret that it wasn’t possible to continue working with Adam. Our aim is to focus even more on our young talents in future. This season, young players like the ones who participated in the Club World Cup will train regularly with the first team. In general, the door is open to anyone who gives their all every day to achieve our common goals to establish themselves permanently in the FC Bayern professional squad.”
Aznou was, of course, meant to be one of the poster boys for youth talents at Bayern and was regularly mentioned as one of the youth players who is close to integration into the first team, even this summer. Now he has permanently left the club. And despite this mission statement for integrating young talents, Aznou is not the first promising youth player to have left over the past couple of years and not one youth player has managed to establish himself under Eberl’s watch. As of now, Eberl’s mission statement is all talk with nothing of note to back it up.
This departure a blow to the club. However, Eberl’s last sentence also heavily hints that he and other decision makers at Bayern did not believe Aznou was not cooperating much with the club. That is rather hard to determine from the outside, but it never really seemed as if Aznou’s head was in Munich at any point in the summer. If so, keeping him around would not have been a good solution either. The break in the relationship happened before the summer even started.
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