Manuel Neuer has not had an easy time with his fitness at Bayern Munich. Twice he has lost years of football to a serious/ a collection of serious injuries. Further injury niggles have plagued him throughout his years at Bayern Munich, recently tearing a calf through celebrating a goal. This all has strengthened his desire to remain at the club throughout the years, determined to get back the years of football he had lost. But this does not change the fact that Neuer is nearing the age of 40 and
that his body is getting more frail.
Neuer acknowledges this, too. In an interview Sky Sports, he was asked about potential updates on his future and a possible contract extension and responded honestly without giving a concrete answer.
“I would like to take my time with that,” Bayern’s captain explained, as captured by @iMiaSanMia. “It’s really about taking the moment to say, okay, how is my body doing? What’s my health like? Does it make sense to continue? And I need to postpone that decision a bit longer.”
Now that Thomas Müller has left the club, Neuer is the club’s longest serving player and will complete 14 years at the club in 2026. Losing him will leave a massive hole at the club, one not solely shaped by his sporting value. He is, after all, arguably Bayern’s greatest ever goalkeeper So shortly after Bayern have had to confront the question of what the club is without Müller, will they have to ask the same question about how the club exists without Neuer?
