Niklas Werner

Right Midfielder - Bayern Munich U18
24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Niklas Werner

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The Bayern Munich Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leon Goretzka breaks a bone — 100 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Rasmus Højlund arrives at Bayern Munich in a $52.1M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Bayern Munich have paid $52.1M for Rasmus Højlund, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

Rasmus Højlund gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rasmus Højlund has just signed for Bayern Munich, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Bayern Munich

Harry Kane was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Dayot Upamecano falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Bayern Munich

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Niklas Meier joins the Bayern Munich first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Niklas Meier is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Bayern Munich promote Niklas Werner from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Niklas Werner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Sven Winter steps up from the Bayern Munich academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sven Winter 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.

In brief

  • Boardroom Bayern Munich are making the ground bigger
  • Boardroom The board put their hand in their pocket