It has revenues of 1 billion, but it has to make savings! »Summer has decreased salaries by 12%

Sports director Max Eberl has to execute the orders of management and reduce the amounts Bayern pays to all employees from the football team. That is why enough players from Vincent Kompany's lot left, especially those with big and very large contracts.

Economy of 76 million € With the salaries of the gone players

Leroy Sane, Thomas Muller, Kingsley Coman, Joao Palhinha, Eric Dier, Mathys Tel, Paul Wanner and Adam Aznou They made their luggage in the last Mercato, so Bayern saved 76 million euros from gross wages, as Gazzetta Dello Sport writes.

Legendary Thomas Muller had to leave Bayern because he did not propose the extension

At the same time, the team from Allianz Arena and strengthened, with Luis Díaz, Nicolas Jackson, Jonathan Tah And Tom Bischof, who transferred to Munich for a total amount of 41 million euros.

The result resulting only from these mercato moves was 35 million, which equals 12% of the salary fund. But coach Kompany and Captain Kane complained that the lot was reduced. Until Musiala's return after the injury, Bayern will have to choose from five players for four stations in attack!

“Eberl received directions to extend the commitments of the most important players (which he did), but at the same time, he had to significantly reduce the salary expenses (partially achieved) and transfer Florian Wirtz, but arrived at Liverpool,” writes the cited Italian daily.

Florian Wirtz, Liverpool's new player / photo: Gettyimages

Lothar Matthaus: “Many things haven't been going according to the plan. Think about Woltemade, Wirtz and think about Williams!”

And Lothar Matthaus came up with information from the backstage: “Eberl has a difficult task in Bayern. Many people are mixing. On the other hand, he always has guiding lines provided by Uli Hoeness, Jan-Christian Dreesen and maybe even Vincent Kompany.

And the sports director Christoph Freund is involved. There are simply many people who have a say. Many things did not go according to plan. Think about Woltemade, think about Wirtz, think about Williams! ”.

Sources close to the Bavarian club say that without the 45 million euros taken after participating in the World Club Championship, Bayern would end the current financial year with losses, which the German champion managed to avoid even in the first season of the Pandema.

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He spent 400 million euros with salaries in 2024-'25!

“The situation is complex, not least, because in December last year it was announced that the club exceeded for the first time the threshold of 1 billion euros as a turnover. However, No money has been found enough to give you Thomas Müller An annual contract, even considering Kompany's limited options in attack, ”explained the pink daily.

95Millions of euros paid Bayern in 2023 to buy Harry Kane from Tottenham, the record transfer of the Bavarian. On the third place all-time to the acquisitions there is the move of this summer of Luis Diaz from Livrpool, 70 million

In 2024-2025, Bayern spent about 400 million euros on wages (including staff). Faced with such expenses, it was inevitable that the club was obliged to adopt a more austere philosophy.

Hasan Salihamidzic, the former SPORIV director, challenges this interpretation: “The salaries were high, but we wanted to give the fans a real show, Both with new transfers and extensions of contracts.

Of course, we made mistakes, as it certainly happened with the ones before us and as it will happen in the future. Football is a risky business, but our error rate was not so high, otherwise we would not have won 16 titles ”.