ANDn Da Luz, on August 23, 2020, Bayern won the Champions League against PSG with Jerome Boateng and David Alaba as central defenders. After 25 minutes, the former City’s injury forced Hansi Flick to bring on Niklas Sle. The ‘Bavarians’ won (0-1) and raised their sixth ‘Orejona’ supported by a wall that is now history at the Allianz Arena.
“We are happy to sign an international like Sle without paying a transfer and signing a four-year contract with him,” said Michael Zorc, Borussia Dortmund’s sporting director after crystallizing his incorporation. The 26-year-old German international, at the club since arriving from Hoffenheim in 2017, rejected the Bayern’s renewal offer and play from next summer at Signal Iduna Park. Another exit without entering a single euro from a team that is forcibly remodeling the center of its defense. They are disarming centrals.
We have to assume that David will leave. We must plan from here. The defense is well covered, but for a top player of his caliber to go free is the worst scenario for us
“We have to assume that David will leave. We have to plan from here. With Boateng, Lucas Hernndez, Sle and Pavard the defense is well covered, but a top player of his caliber going free is the worst case scenario for us” , took over in 2020 in ‘Sky’ sports director Hasan Salihamidzic when Alaba refused to renew. The fate of the 29-year-old Austrian defender was Real Madrid.
And it wasn’t the only way out. “Boateng’s contract ends in the summer and will not be extended,” said Salihamidzic, opening the door for the 32-year-old centre-back., who signed for Olympique Lyon. Since 2011-12, the two players had been key in winning nine Bundesliga titles, five Cups, two Champions Leagues, two German Super Cups, two European Super Cups and two Club World Cups. But Bayern looked to the future.
Upamecano and Lucas Hernández
The Bavarians signed Dayot Upamecano paying his clause of 42.5 million euros to RB Leipzig to secure the 22-year-old French center-back. Together with Lucas Hernndez (25) he is being Julian Nagelsmann’s preferred option for the center of his defense, in addition to Benjamin Pavard’s wild card. “It will be a very important component for our team in the coming years, of that we are convinced,” Salihamidzic explained about Upamecano. But there is more. Nico Schlotterbeck, a 22-year-old left-back from Freiburg, is one of his targets to air a defense in which Tanguy Nianzou (19) could have more prominence in the future.
Exits at zero cost
After signing prominent players from the Bundesliga as freelancers in recent seasons Lewandowski (Dortmund), Rudy (Hoffenheim) and Goretzka and Nbel (Schalke), they have made a Bayern out of Bayern by ‘taking away’ Sle. Dortmund has returned the play. A center hit.
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Bayern is disarmed of centrals