Due to his status as a player in his seventh season at Bayern Munich, Serge Gnabry knows the club very well now. Having been at 4 other clubs in his professional career, among them Arsenal FC and Werder Bremen, Gnabry knows there is something so very distinct about the Bavarian giants, something that has now been baked into the German winger’s DNA. So what is the Bayern gene?
“I would describe this gene like this: You always want to win, you always have to win, and at the same time everyone else wants to beat you,” Gnabry explained, as captured by @iMiaSanMia. “You have to constantly fight against that because you don’t want to lose, no matter what. I adopted this gene very quickly. It’s very difficult for me to imagine not feeling this mentality in me at some point.”
But how did Gnabry acquire this Bayern gene? Well, it’s the atmosphere, the intense desire to win that spreads through every inch of the Säbener Straße, of course.
“It happens quite automatically,” Gnabry affirmed via @iMiaSanMia. “Anyone who comes to Bayern very quickly realises that a different wind blows in training, that games are approached differently. You see, feel and experience this desire to always win every day. That’s exactly where this special ambition, this gene, comes from.”