Bayern hope Musiala won’t “succumb to an insane offer from Madrid”
The player’s entourage met with Bayern Munich officials to find out about their plans as other clubs, including Real Madrid circle.
Jamal Musiala and Jude Bellingham have been friends since childhood and are now are taking the soccer world by storm. They grew up together in the England youth ranks, but then went their separate ways. While Jude made his debut in England’s senior side, Jamal’s German origins got the better of him and he opted for the Mannschaft. At club level, it was a similar story. Bellingham ended up at Borussia Dortmund, Musiala joined their biggest rivals, Bayern Munich. However, they way things are looking, they may not face each other for much longer in the German league.
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While the Dortmund midfielder seems determined to take the next step in his promising career, with Real Madrid taking pole position to hire him, Musiala’s immediate future lies at the Allianz Arena. The Bundesliga champions, who signed him from Chelsea when he was just 16 years old, renewed his contract a year and a half ago until 2026 and consider him one of the key players for the future. Especially after his performance at the World Cup, Jamal was classified non-transferable in Munich.
The 19-year-old is also aware that Bayern was the first club to bet on him when he was starting out and he feels very comfortable in the Bavarian capital. As revealed by German newspaper Sport Bild, his mother recently met sports director Hasan Salihamidzic to learn more about the club’s plans for him. The answer, as the coach Julian Nagelsmann keeps repeating, is that Jamal, sooner rather than later, will become the axis of the team’s game. The coach’s idea is to move him from the wing to an attacking midfield position to the detriment of a Thomas Müller who be pushed up alongside Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.
“Never say never,” were Musiala’s own words during a recent interview with this newspaper when he was asked about the possibility of staying at Bayern throughout his career. Despite his explosion onto the scene, Bayern’s new star remains with his feet on the ground and does not think beyond the goals he has set himself in Munich: “I want to continue being Jamal as always. More difficult moments will come; that is why I am simply grateful for the good things I am experiencing,” he stressed.
However, in Germany there is already concerns that one of his suitors will end up seducing him. “Now Bayern have the most difficult task before them,” noted Bild in an opinion piece. “Oliver Kahn (CEO) and Hasan Salihamidzic have to work hard so you don’t succumb to an insane offer from Madrid, Paris or Manchester,” the article added, addressing Musiala directly. At the moment, Bayern have taken the iniative. The Bavarian club, in addition to having renewed Musiala’s contract until 2026, does not usually back down once it has declared a player non-transferable. And Jamal, to this day, is.