It has already been on display a handful of time for the German national team, but Bayern Munich fans across the globe are clamoring for the future possibility of Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz playing alongside one another for the Rekordmeister. Bayern’s front office has already made it clear they are ready and willing to go all out for the Bayer Leverkusen phenom, but recent developments have suggested he is going to stay with Die Werkself and extend his current contract, but those reports were squashed by CEO Fernando Carro.
A move to Bayern could still be in the cards this summer for Wirtz, and it would be a move that would significantly strengthen an already-lethal attack for Vincent Kompany’s side that currently sit atop the Bundesliga table. There are, of course, other clubs very interested in trying to sign Wirtz, but it seems, at this stage, it is going to be a transfer duel between Bayern and Leverkusen to see whether he will leave or stay with the reigning Bundesliga champions under Xabi Alonso.
German football pundit Didi Hamann recently went against the grain, unsurprisingly, and warned Wirtz that he should not go to Bayern. The former professional footballer feels one of Musiala or Wirtz would suffer if they were playing at the same club.
“I have big concerns about whether they will be able to play in a team. If both play in the same team, one would suffer. If I were Florian Wirtz, then the risk of being it (the player that suffers) would be too high for me,” Hamann ranted on an appearance of Sky90 (via @SportBild).
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Positionally, Hamann feels, they are too similar in where they are best utilized by either their club managers or Julian Nagelsmann for Germany. For Hamann, there would be too much conflict based off of the tactical similarities between Wirtz and Musiala. “They are both best in the middle. Bayern have always played with wingers, so it may be that you push one to the side,” he rationalized. For Germany at the Euros, he continued “Wirtz was hardly seen. Musiala was the focus of attention at the European Championships and Wirtz had a supporting role, he’s too good for that.”
In Hamann’s opinion, he feels that if Wirtz does want to leave Leverkusen this summer, he should go somewhere like Real Madrid. He feels that he would be better suited to occupy a central role in attack there, which is often times occupied by Jude Bellingham, though Carlo Ancelotti does give the England international a lot of tactical freedom.
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