It is now officially official.
Michael Olise has completed his move from Crystal Palace t Bayern Munich, signing a five-year deal for a transfer fee of around €60 + performance-based add-ons. The heavily anticipated move sees Bayern complete their second signing of the summer transfer window, having already secured Hiroki Ito from VfB Stuttgart a few weeks ago.
Olise joins Bayern after spending three seasons at Crystal Palace, a period during which he had established himself as one of the club’s best attackers, let alone best players. He tallied a total of 16 goals and 25 assists from his 92 appearances across all competitions for the club, and it was recently confirmed that he would be in the French Olympic squad this summer in Paris.
Before he moved to Crystal Palace, Olise had stints with youth teams at Reading, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal. When he was in Chelsea’s youth ranks, he played alongside Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala, who spent most of his youth career until former sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic convinced him to join Bayern along with subsequently choosing to represent Germany at an international level instead of England. Through his mother, he has duel citizenship and had a choice to make in that regard.
In what will be a reunion of sorts from their Chelsea youth days, Musiala is very much looking forward to playing alongside Olise in Bayern’s attack from next season onward. “We played together at Chelsea’s youth teams, it was a good time. we haven’t talked much over the years, but what I can say is that he has a lot of quality. You could see that at Crystal Palace, he scored a lot of goals,” Bayern’s number 42 explained when he was asked to comment on the Olise transfer becoming official (via Maximilian Koch per @iMiaSanMia).
While Olise is a much-welcomed addition to Bayern’s firing line, it could still yet look different come the start of the 2024/25 campaign. Both Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry have been linked with potential moves away from the club this summer, but concrete offers have not yet come in for either player. That could change as time progresses, but Olise will certainly be doing everything in his power to become a consistent starter under Vincent Kompany, who knows the player very well from his time managing Burnley in the Premier League.