Official confirmation is still missing, but this transfer is an open secret: Leipzig’s Konrad Laimer is moving to Munich. But before that, he quickly turns an old story on its head.
Nobody asked Konrad Laimer after the game against FC Bayern if he knew Jan Schlaudraff. That wasn’t an omission, just reasonable, because other than “no” you probably wouldn’t have gotten an answer. Jan Schlaudraff was a striker, not untalented, he was really good for a while. However, it was not so much his qualities that prompted FC Bayern to make an offer to the attacker from Alemannia Aachen in spring 2007. The FC Bayern manager, Uli Hoeneß, had no problem at all with naming the true motive for this transfer: Werder Bremen was probably already sure of this player, said Hoeneß at the time with a literally thieving amusement. You want to see that now.