The Bayern Munich Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich bid $21.1M for Kaishu Sano
The offer went to Mainz 05 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Jonathan Burkardt
Bayern Munich asked and Eintracht Frankfurt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich turn down Köln for Serge Gnabry
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Joshua Kimmich wants more than Bayern Munich are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Bayern Munich go back to the board over Kaishu Sano
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $19.3M — a club that wants Kaishu Sano enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig watching Aleksandar Pavlović
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bayern Munich have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: David Keller joins the Bayern Munich first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Keller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ismael Saibari stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ismael Saibari and Bayern Munich agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ismael Saibari
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Luis Díaz has seen what the next man earns
- The dugout Nathaniel Brown knocks on the manager's door
- Squad The dugout calls for Harry Kane