FC Bayern Munich: negotiations with Karim Adeyemi confirmed
FC Bayern Munich is negotiating a change with young international Karim Adeyemi. Unterhaching’s president has doubts about the move.
Bayern Munich is pushing the coveted young national player Karim Adeyemi from RB Salzburg to the German record champions. On Saturday there was a round of negotiations between FC Bayern and advisor Thomas Solomon and Adeyemi’s father Abbey.
“I was informed about the visit and of course a possible change was an issue. I don’t know whether it is the right step for Bayern or for Karim,” confirmed Unterhaching’s President Manfred Schwabl Picture TV the information from Sky about the negotiations. Schwabl is considered the mentor of Adeyemi, who moved from Haching to Salzburg in 2016 for 3.3 million.
Schwabl warns: Is the height of fall too high for Adeyemi?
But it is “often dangerous to take the third step before the second because the height of the fall is too great. It will now be exciting weeks,” said Schwabl. Adeyemi would “fit in perfectly with Dortmund with his style of play, with Leipzig because of the group. At that age it shouldn’t be about money, the sporting perspective is more important. He could assert himself anywhere at his pace. But he has to be used regularly “.
We are talking about a transfer of 30 to 40 million euros for the 19-year-old offensive player, who last made his debut under national coach Hansi Flick in the DFB dress. In addition to Bayern, Dortmund and Leipzig, Jürgen Klopp’s FC Liverpool should also be among the interested parties. The contract of Adeyemi, who also played for two years in the youth team of FC Bayern, runs until 2024 in Salzburg.
According to information from Goal and SPOX Not yet in sight, the Adeyemi side wants and will talk to other clubs in the coming weeks and then consult.
Ex-Bayern boss Rummenigge explains Adeyemi change
Most recently, Bavaria’s ex-club boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge spoke about the teenager at the award ceremony of the German Football Ambassador initiative in Berlin. “I still know him from Unterhaching. Manni Schwabl also contacted Uli Hoeneß at the time and we weren’t ready to pay that much for him at the time. At that time the transfer was supposed to cost around three million euros. That was for one 16-year-olds at that time a very proud sum, “said Rummenigge.
Adeyemi have “developed well now. I saw him in the last international match and now also in the Champions League. He’s an interesting player. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. Now he may cost one more zero”.