Busy Bayern Munich has not exactly been idle in recent weeks. Der Rekordmeister fired trainer Julian Nagelsmann and replaced him with Thomas Tuchel. The club is now looking for a new top striker.
Bayern calls three big names in urgent search for top striker
After the cup elimination against Freiburg, technical director Hasan Salihamidzic immediately went to work. Although Tuchel has successfully worked with striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting in the past, the club wants a new attack leader. The Cameroonian has been found to be too light and cannot fill the shoes of Robert Lewandowski, who has left for Barcelona.
To be less vulnerable next season, Salihamidzic is looking for a world-class striker. The policymaker confirmed this to the German press after the shutdown. “We know what to do in the transfer market. The situation is clear. If we go into the next season with only Choupo-Moting, Mathys Tel, Thomas Müller and Sadio Mane as strikers, that would not be enough.’
Lewandowski has scored no less than 110 goals (94 games) in the Bundesliga in the last three seasons. With that, Bayern had an inimitable weapon. Choupo Moting scored only ten times this year. Salihamidzic sees that too: “He is doing well, but in all likelihood we will opt for a new striker.”
‘Who? That will become apparent in the coming weeks,” said Salihamidzic. This increased the pressure. In the short term, a top striker must come to southern Germany. The technical director also gave some names: “Whether it’s Harry Kane, Victor Osimhen or Randal Kolo Muani, someone has to come.”
Kolo Muani loves playing with Götze: “A remarkable player”
Stating in Germany, Randal Kolo Muani is very pleased with the collaboration with Mario Götze. The midfielder delivered two point-perfect assists to the Frenchman in the cup match with Union Berlin, which helped Eintracht Frankfurt win the cup.
“It was a pretty complete match from us,” Kolo Muani told Eintracht Frankfurt’s club channels. “After eight games in a row without a win, Eintracht qualified for the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal on Tuesday. “It was important to win here again. After the first two goals we kept going and left nothing behind.”
Within fifteen minutes, the Frenchman had two in, twice on Götze’s instructions. “He is a remarkable player and has a lot of technical skills. As a fellow player you can only benefit from that,” said the German. Kolo Muani already made twelve in the competition and he was also the declarant ten times. That is why Götze also had praise for his teammate.
“With the second goal I knew: Kolo Muani likes to go deep. So everything went great. And efficiency for purpose is key. We’ve had some bad luck in recent weeks, but now we’ve done a lot better,” he said. Captain Sebastian Rode was also very pleased with the French striker: “We played exasperated and Kolo did the rest.”
