Bavarian Football Works
Bayern Munich executive board member for sport Max Eberl has been signaling — unsurprisingly — a quiet winter transfer window ahead for the Bavarians.
“The main task is internal transfers in the form of extensions,” Eberl relayed in earlier comments captured by DAZN (via @iMiaSanMia). “Then we have the squad set. Then we will probably not act extensively in the winter at all.”
It’s an interesting conundrum for the cost-conscious Bavarians. On the one hand, an internal ‘transfer’ — an extended contract — is a chance to avoid paying a transfer fee on an increasingly wild market.
On the other, signing bonuses are their own form of escalating market and some of Bayern’s…