Transfer-Zoff with FC Bayern
Bayer boss rages: “Hold nothing of Max Eberl, absolutely nothing”
The Bundesliga season 2024/2025 throws its shade ahead. Record champion Bayern Munich wants to recapture the title of Bayer Leverkusen. Only with the current Leverkusen Tah. But then FC Bayern takes a distance from a transfer and Bayer boss Carro is out of date.
The dispute over DFB star Jonathan Tah and his possible change from Meister Bayer 04 Leverkusen escalates to the record champion FC Bayern. It has long since arrived at the boss level. The argument is conducted in a sharpness that has long been not experienced in the Bundesliga. “I don't think of Max Eberl, absolutely nothing,” said Bayer Boss Fernando Carro according to “Kicker” at a fan meeting in the Bay Arena: “I would not negotiate with him.”
The background to the argument is the transfer dispute around Jonathan Tah, which has been swelling in the background for weeks. The defender of Bayer Leverkusen is still under contract with the Double winner for a year and would like to move to Munich this summer. An agreement is said to have been reached between the clubs a few weeks ago. For the 28-year-old, according to the agreed media reports, around 25 million euros plus bonus payments should flow towards Leverkusen.
FC Bayern simply has no “money shit”
But the money was not yet at Bayern at the time of the supposed agreement. Honorary President Uli Hoeneß had even prescribed a transfer stop to the record champion. “We have no money shit at FC Bayern,” said Hoeneß, who was still active on the supervisory board, and asked for the sale of two or three players. Hoeneß described the fact that his statement was interpreted as a word of power as “nonsense”. He only “announced what the Supervisory Board decided. There is a decision: If new players come, you have to sell, you have to learn to listen and write the truth”. The possible Bayern departures should have been read everywhere, including part of the oral agreement between Leverkusen and Bavaria. Only then would the Tah transfer be carried out.
Sports board member Max Eberl had shown himself unmoved after the Hoeneß comments. Basically, he said Hoeneß only said what was discussed internally anyway. “Income and expenses have to be balanced,” Eberl had explained and worked on the departures of Matthijs de Ligt and Nousussair Mazraoui in the next few weeks. With success, as the enforcement reports proved yesterday. Manchester United is said to pay around 60 million for the duo and thus rinse money into the Bavarian coffers. In the meantime, however, Bayern had moved away from a commitment by the German international Tah. The “kicker” reported on Monday that the transfer could not be done, “provided nothing unforeseen happens”. Not everyone of Tah is completely convinced in the Munich club tip.
As Carro's statements now suggest, the transfer proceeds from Bayern will not flow 25 million euros towards Leverkusen. Rather, the rare attack on the fan meeting in this form is likely to lead to Tah will also appear for the current master in the 2024/2025 season. Max Eberl, until the end of 2022 in the service of Borussia Mönchengladbach, the association near Leverkusen, has not yet commented on the statements of the Leverkusen boss.
Carro, however, spoke up shortly after the publication of the “Kicker” text and asked for an apology when asked NTV. The statements were made in an “informal exchange” and should not be taken up and multiplied in this form, the Bayer boss said. “But that doesn't change the statement for which I hereby apologize. Of course, I respect FC Bayern, its responsible and the services that this association has provided for German football,” he said.
