According to a report from Abendzeitung, Bayern Munich has learned from the perceived mistakes of its recent past will no longer be put into a position where it feels like it “has” to pay to keep a player if there is any lingering doubt about the player:
Bayern is once again taking a closer look at salary levels. Eberl has long been tasked with lowering the salary level of the squad; salaries of 20 million euros or more per year are to remain the exception in the future.
In the past, players like Harry
Kane, Jamal Musiala, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, and Dayot Upamecano were offered extremely lucrative contracts. In the cases of Brown and Saibari, the transfer committee is said to have taken a hard line. Although both players now earn significantly more than they did at their previous clubs, their annual salaries are reportedly less than twelve million euros.
It seems as if this becomes a topic every summer, but Bayern Munich is trending in a direction that will be difficult to sustain if things stay at the current pace. As a big club, this is, indeed, life in the big leagues and Bayern Munich will likely have to seek ways to reduce salary mistakes than avoid paying top-end prices for top-tier players.
In the recent cases of Kimmich, Upamecano, Davies, and Musiala, Bayern Munich was largely bidding against itself and entered into what were considered to be “player friendly” deals that were later criticized. Will those kind of contract dealings become a thing of the past or is this just an initiative that the club will not be able to see through.
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