Bayern Munich’s long search for a new manager to replace Thomas Tuchel eventually landed on Vincent Kompany, but now the Belgian is tasked with helping add the right reinforcements to the club in concert with Max Eberl, Christoph Freund, and the rest of the club’s board. There have already been several players linked with coming to Munich this summer, but there are also a handful of players that are entering crunch phases of their contract negotiations with the club.
Alphonso Davies has been heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid this summer, but Kompany is keen on getting the Canadian international to stay and extend his contract with the Rekordmeister. His current contract is set to expire in June 2025, and Bayern wants a decision from Davies very soon in order to avoid the player going into the last year of his contract with the potential to leave on a free next summer, just as David Alaba did a few seasons ago.
AC Milan’s Theo Hernández, brother of former Bayern defender Lucas Hernández, is the current frontrunner candidate to replace Davies if he does wind up leaving Bayern this summer, but there have been other names loosely linked with the club.
Arsenal defender and Ukrainian international Oleksandr Zinchenko has been one of the names mentioned. Zinchenko joined Arsenal from Manchester City in the summer of 2022 ahead of the 2022/23 campaign and his current contract with the Gunners is set to expire in June 2026. He is currently valuated at around 38-million euros, 12-million euros shy of the 50-million euros Bayern want for Davies from Real Madrid for a deal to happen.
Per Sky Sport journalist Florian Plettenberg, Zinchenko is no longer a “hot topic” at Bayern at the moment since the club is pushing for Hernández from Milan to be the replacement in they cannot convince Davies to stay and extend his contract. Plettenberg also states that sources close to Zinchenko have said that a move to Bayern is highly unlikely, regardless of what winds up happening with Davies before the transfer window closes.