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Jamal Musiala could play center forward role

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September 10, 2022

Jamal Musiala could play center forward role

Jamal Musiala could take the position of center forward at Bayern Munich in the long term. Kingsley Coman is out after a muscle tear. All news and rumors about FC Bayern can be found here.

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Bayern, rumor: New position for Musiala at FCB?

After the departure of Robert Lewandowski, FC Bayern is currently playing without a real centre-forward. in the picture-Podcast “Bayern Insider” an internal solution with Jamal Musiala as a nine is brought into play. Accordingly, the 19-year-old would certainly dare to play the role of striker.

Musiala is said to have already squinted at the center forward position at the European Championships last year, as the national team has been missing a center forward for a long time. The youngster had already played successfully as a striker in his youth, but now he is usually used a position further back or on the wings.

Before the game against VfB Stuttgart, coach Julian Nagelsmann admitted that an external replacement for Lewandowski was originally planned, but that no suitable player was found on the market. “There are few nines on the market that have the quality to improve on us. If we could have found a top, top nine for affordable money, we probably would have gone for it.”

Musiala has been on the pitch seven times this season. He scored five goals and prepared two more goals.

Bayern, News: Coman is injured

Bayern Munich will have to do without winger Kingsley Coman for the time being. The German record champions reported that the Frenchman had torn a muscle fiber in his right thigh and was out “for the time being”.

This means that Coman will miss Saturday’s Bundesliga game against VfB Stuttgart. Four days before the explosive reunion with Robert Lewandowski in the Champions League against FC Barcelona, Nagelsmann announced “some changes”. Leon Goretzka will play from the start, Leroy Sané will have a break.

Transfers between FCB and VfB: One became one of the best deals in Bayern history

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The 157th duel between FC Bayern and VfB Stuttgart will take place on Saturday (3:30 p.m. in the live ticker). SPOX shows the last ten transfers between the two clubs and what became of the players.

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THOMAS STRUNZ: Season 1995/96 from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – the Munich team paid 2.5 million euros for the defensive man’s return campaign after he only left the club in 1992 for the Swabians.

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He became the enemy of VfB fans, while he was four times champion, twice cup winner and once CL winner with Bayern. Albeit with a caveat. Because not everything went smoothly in Munich either…

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In the winter of 2000/01, Ottmar Hitzfeld retired Strunz, which is why his contract was terminated. In fact, he only has half of the CL triumph and the last of his four championship titles. Since he could no longer find a club, he ended his career.

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But he will be remembered by the football world forever. In 1998, Strunz was one of Giovanni Trapattoni’s victims in his legendary angry speech. Quote: “Strunz has been here for two years, has played ten games, is always injured. What do Strunz allow?”

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GIOVANE ELBER: Season 1997/98 from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – Munich put 6.5 million euros on the table to dissolve the magic triangle. And the Brazilian also demonstrated his goalscoring qualities on the Isar.

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Elber scored 139 stalls in 266 games for Bayern. He stocked his trophy cabinet with four championship trophies, a handle pot and the DFB cups two, three and four. In 2003/04 he was ousted by Roy Makaay and went to Lyon.

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After two short interludes in Gladbach and Brazil, Elber ended his career in 2006. In 2007 he returned to Bayern as a scout for three years. He has been the FCB club representative since 2017.

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PABLO THIAM: Season 2001/02 from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – who? Many FCB fans are probably no longer familiar with the son of a Guinean diplomat. He came to Säbener Strasse free of charge and ended up bringing money into the coffers.

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He only stayed in Munich for a season and a half before Thiam switched to VfL Wolfsburg for one million euros. He never made it through to Bayern and only made 28 appearances. He now heads the youth department at Hertha.

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PHILIPP LAHM: Season 2003/04 from FC Bayern to VfB Stuttgart on a two-year loan – the long-standing full-back is not a classic defector due to the loan deal, but this was of great importance for FCB.

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Hermann Gerland campaigned for the loan because Lahm was not supposed to play a third year in the regional league. Under Felix Magath he rose to become a regular and national team player. Even a cruciate ligament rupture didn’t stop him.

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Back in Munich, Lahm quickly became a top performer. He should rise to become one of the most successful Bayern players of all time. Eight championship titles, six cup wins and a CL title speak volumes.

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Under Pep Guardiola he became a defensive midfielder – also with world-class format. In 2017 he ended his successful career. Lahm turned down the post of sports director and became an entrepreneur.

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MARIO GÓMEZ: Season 2009/10 from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – FCB shelled out the then record sum of 30 million euros for the champion scorer of 2007. A success-story. Actually.

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Gómez scored like clockwork (113 goals in 174 games) and even extended his contract until 2016 in spring 2012. But the 2011/12 season with three runners-up titles was the beginning of the end. First Bayern got Mario Mandzukic and then …

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… there was also a three-month injury break. His regular place was finally gone, but Gómez still scored regularly despite his reserve role – including twice in the cup final against Stuttgart, which made the treble perfect.

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With the change of coach, his departure was sealed. “The flower taught me that Pep Guardiola doesn’t need a striker,” he later said. The move to Florence followed, which earned FCB 15.5 million euros.

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Incidentally, Gómez has the third-best goal quota in Munich club history among players with over 100 appearances. He ended his career in Stuttgart in 2020. He has been technical director at Red Bull since 2022 and is also a TV expert.

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SVEN ULREICH: 2015/16 season from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – the Swabian fans could never understand the change. From the regular player, the keeper went to the bench. After all, there was 3.5 million euros in compensation.

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A stroke of luck for FCB! There have never been any complaints that he hardly gets a chance. And when he was needed – as in Neuer’s long absence in 2017/18 – he usually performed. In 2020, he expressed dissatisfaction for a different reason.

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That was due to Bavaria’s public wooing of Alexander Nübel, who was brought in as a future new replacement. Not with Ulreich, who went to HSV. After a weak year in Hamburg, he returned (contract until ’23). Also because Nübel was awarded.

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JOSHUA KIMMICH: 2015/16 season from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – one of the best deals in FCB history! Only 8.5 million euros were due for today’s world-class midfielder. A brutal bargain, as it soon turned out.

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Kimmich had previously become a regular at the then second division club RB Leipzig (loan) and at the age of 20 was to become an important building block for Pep Guardiola. In Stuttgart, one in particular mourned him.

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Alexander Zorniger already rated the transfer in winter 2015 as “a fatal wrong decision” by the Swabians. Since then, Kimmich has climbed steeply. According to reports, the captain’s armband will even wave to him at some point. Contract until 2025.

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JULIAN GREEN: 2016/17 season (winter) from FC Bayern to VfB Stuttgart – the American never really made it to the pros and switched to the Swabians who were relegated in the summer for half a million.

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VfB managed to get promoted directly, but Green didn’t have much influence. Stuttgart loaned the attacker to Greuther Fürth for a season before the cloverleaf signed him a year later. There he extended 2021 by three years.

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HOLGER BADSTUBER: 2017/18 season from FC Bayern to VfB Stuttgart – In Munich, the central defender had been a regular for a long time before one injury after another afflicted him. The Swabians struck free of charge.

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Badstuber quickly gained a regular place with the promoted team at the time. He lost it again in the 2018/19 relegation season. After a solid year in the second division, coach Pellegrino Matarazzo put him on reserve.

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After a year in the regional league, the former national player went abroad for the first time to FC Luzern in Switzerland. After poor performance, his contract was terminated in December. In 2022 he drew the line.

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BENJAMIN PAVARD: Season 2019/20 from VfB Stuttgart to FC Bayern – FCB transferred 35 million euros for the courted defender from France, who can play both on the right and inside. In 2018 he played a key role in the world title.

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In all three seasons, Pavard made at least 30 competitive appearances, mostly as a right-back. There had been rumors of emigration again and again, including in the summer of 2022. A farewell never became really concrete.

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Pavard, who actually sees himself as a central defender, has well-known competition on the right side for the first time in Noussair Mazraoui in the 2022/23 season. So far, however, there is no way around the Frenchman, who has clearly improved again.

Bayern, News: FCB welcomes VfB Stuttgart

Bayern host VfB Stuttgart this afternoon in their home Allianz Arena (from 3.30 p.m. in the live ticker). Both teams could play like this.

Bavaria: Neuer – Pavard, de Ligt, Hernandez, Davies – Kimmich, Goretzka – T. Müller, Musiala – Gnabry, Mané
Stuttgart: F. Müller – Mavropanos, Anton, Ito – Silas, W. Endo, Karazor, Sosa – Führich – Guirassy, Tiago Tomas

FC Bayern Munich: The first games in the Bundesliga

meeting	Opponent	location	result
Aug. 5, 8:30 p.m	Eintracht Frankfurt	away	6:1
Aug. 14, 5:30 p.m	VfL Wolfsburg	home	2-0
Aug. 21, 5:30 p.m	VfL Bochum	away	7-0
Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m	Borussia Monchengladbach	home	1:1
September 3, 3:30 p.m	Union Berlin	away	1:1