Bayern Munich legend set to increase contract
Bayern Munich are set at hand legendary goalkeeper Manuel Neuer a brand new one-year contract that can lengthen his stick with the membership right into a fifteenth season.
Accidents have put a ceiling on Neuer’s availability for a lot of the final eight years, lacking the tip of 2024 with damaged rib, however the 38-year-old is predicted again quickly.
Fabrizio Romano has reported that Bayern are “ready to proceed with formal steps” that can lead to Neuer signing a 12-month deal till the tip of 2025/26.
The 2014 World Cup winner will flip 40 throughout that marketing campaign, having made his senior bow for Schalke means again in 2006. He’s chasing a twelfth Bundesliga title this season, having additionally beforehand received the DFB-Pokal on 5 events and the Champions League twice.
An injury-free run as soon as Neuer returns from his newest absence might see him surpass 600 Bayern appearances by the tip of subsequent season. He’s at the moment on 540, eighth on the membership’s all-time checklist, however would break into the highest 5 if he can no less than higher the late Franz Beckenbauer’s 582.
Neuer, the latest goalkeeper to complete within the high three of the Ballon d’Or, has pioneered the fashionable function of the sweeper-keeper with a willingness to hurry off his line and contain himself in video games in a means that the majority goalkeepers beforehand did not. He’s additionally thought to be a very full instance of a goalkeeper, expert throughout a broad vary of attributes.
