By all accounts, Bayern Munich is ready and willing to make Jamal Musiala one of the club’s highest earners alongside Harry Kane with what reports are suggesting the club is ready to offer him for the proposed contract extension. Talks between Musiala, his representatives Max Eberl, and Christoph Freund have already taken place, but there is still a decent amount left to cover in the negotiation process. The outlook for Bayern is looking good, though, and the Rekordmeister are on track to keeping a hold of Musiala through 2029 if all goes to plan.
Reports have suggested Bayern is ready to have their playmaker earn up to 25 million euros per year, which would bring the overall extension package above 120 million euros for the proposed four-year deal. In essence, he would become the face of the club with that sort of deal, and it would really be a statement of intention to the rest of the European footballing landscape. Far too often, rising Bundesliga talents wind up getting shipped off to the Premier League in England after establishing prominence, but this new Musiala deal is a step in a different direction — world class talent can be produced, established, and maintained in the Bundesliga.
Speaking on the proposed new deal, Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen, who just recently agreed to a contract extension with the club through 2027, was jubilant in his admiration of everything Musiala brings to the club. “It is no news that we want to extend the contract of one of the top players in the world who is in our team. Jamal Musiala has developed excellently with us, he’s a player who inspires the spectators, who creates a spectacle due to his individual class, who can turn a game around. And I very much hope that these first really good talks that Max Eberl and Christoph Freund are having with Jamal will ultimately lead to an extension,” he explained in an interview with az’s Maximilian Koch (via @iMiaSanMia).
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While talks between the club and Musiala over the new deal have been positive thus far, Dreesen did not want to put any sort of specific timetable on getting the deal over the line to create any unnecessary pressure on anyone externally or internally. It is something the club feels comfortable about and does not want to rush. “I don’t want to put a time limit on this now. The important thing is that it gets to that point, even if it doesn’t happen by the end of the year. Jamal Musiala is one of the faces of the future for FC Bayern, along with others like Aleks Pavlović and Joshua Kimmich. Players like that should shape the club,” he stressed.
