Jamal Musiala’s current contract with Bayern Munich is set to run through June 2026, but the club has already started discussions over a new deal with the electric playmaker.
Musiala currently earns around €9m gross per year for Bayern, but it is understood that the player will certainly receive a salary increase, it is just a matter of how much the club’s front office and supervisory board would be willing to offer. He is worth his weight in gold in the squad, though, so it would not be surprising to see him become one of the highest earners at the club, if not the highest earner.
Per information from Sport Bild’s Christian Falk (via @iMiaSanMia), sources close to Bayern have reported that the initial contract talks between Musiala and the club have been “very, very positive.” It goes without saying that there are a bevy of European clubs interested in trying to sign him, but with the conversations that have already taken place, Bayern is currently the club the leads the race to, in this case, keep him for longer.
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The club seems willing to meet a lot of the conditions he would be asking for that are centered around Bayern winning the Champions League and Musiala getting guarantees that the club will continue to improve the strength of the squad. It had been reported that both Max Eberl and Christoph Freund admired the fact that Musiala was actively thinking about the continued improvement of the overall squad structure.
The squad structure and planning sentiment is an extension of the fact that Musiala is very much enjoying working with new manager Vincent Kompany. He has already had to adjust to playing styles under Hansi Flick, Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel, but he likes the way Kompany is currently leading the team. From the club’s perspective, the relationship between the player and Kompany was understood to bear a significant amount of weight in the contract talks and negotiations over a new deal. Having a solid view of the future plans and ideas for the club is important in Musiala’s consideration of how much longer he would want to stay with the club.
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