The guesswork surrounding Thomas Müller’s sporting future at FC Bayern is over: the 34-year-old has extended his contract with the record champions by one year until 2025.
Thomas Müller, who won the Champions League twice, the championship twelve times and the cup six times with FC Bayern, remains loyal to the record champions. The 34-year-old has extended his contract, which expires in the summer of 2024, by another year and will also wear the red and white jersey after the home European Championships.
“I would like to do my part to ensure that we remain successful – as a team and as a whole club. It is important to me to be a building block and to help steer the team in the right direction,” Müller is quoted as saying in a club statement.
Müller has been with FCB for 23 years
The original Bavarian embodies the “Mia-san-mia” feeling like no other. He has been playing for FC Bayern for 23 years – none of the current squad has been there longer. The Munich native has developed into the face of the club over the years and is the absolute favorite of the fans. “There is no one who has internalized FC Bayern like that. We know what we have in him,” Bayern’s sporting director Christoph Freund recently said about the 34-year-old.
No longer a regular player under Tuchel
Coach Thomas Tuchel also knows how important Müller is as an identification figure for the fans as well as a leader and mood-booster in his own team and recently described him as “an icon for the club and a playing legend”.
But the offensive player is no longer a regular starter under Tuchel. That’s why there was speculation about a possible departure of the original Bavarian. But Müller is considered to be close to his homeland, spends most of his vacation time in Bavaria and runs the Gut Wettlkam stud farm near Otterfing, south of Munich, with his wife Lisa.
Instead of Müller always playing, now Müller always helps
The striker takes his joker role sportily. The 2014 world champion does not show any dissatisfaction or even frustration with his situation at the club. On the contrary: as often as possible, he pushes his teammates from the bench and is happy about goals and successful actions. And even though Müller doesn’t play much, he shows his qualities as a preparer – like in the Champions League game in Manchester, when he helped score Kingsley Coman’s winning goal shortly after coming on as a substitute.
At the 3-0 win against VfB Stuttgart On Sunday he was once again in the starting line-up – and played a key role in Harry Kane’s goal to make it 1-0 in the second minute.
The credo “Müller always plays” has now become “Müller always helps”. The club will also need his help next season: the Champions League final will take place in Munich in 2025. A possible “Finale at home 2.0” was certainly also an incentive for the contract extension: “That’s a bit of a decoy,” said the national player recently.
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