The Bayern Munich Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$47.6M settles it between the clubs for Mile Svilar
AS Roma have accepted the money. What Bayern Munich do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Vinícius Júnior
Bayern Munich asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Michael Olise gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Oliver Fischer joins the Bayern Munich first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oliver Fischer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ralf Haas steps up from the Bayern Munich academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ralf Haas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Patrick Hartmann joins the Bayern Munich first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Hartmann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Ismael Saibari signs a new deal
- Squad Tempers go at Bayern Munich
- Squad Luis Díaz has seen what the next man earns