At the end of the contract with Borussia Dortmund, the Portuguese international Raphaël Guerreiro will engage with Bayern Munich, explained Sunday morning the president of the tenfold reigning German champions, Herbert Hainer, in an interview with Bild TV. “So far we have not spent anything, the two transfers that we have made, or that we are about to conclude, have not cost us anything because the players were at the end of their contract”, explained Herbert. hate.
The day before, on the microphone of the broadcaster DAZN before the final of the Champions League, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, member of the Supervisory Board of the club, had underlined: “With Laimer and Guerreiro, we obtained good players”. If the arrival of defensive midfielder Konrad Laimer was formalized on Friday for four seasons, the club has not yet officially communicated on Raphaël Guerreiro, in particular on the duration of his contract at Bayern. After seven seasons at Borussia Dortmund, Guerreiro will find in Munich Thomas Tuchel, who had brought him to the Ruhr, from Lorient, in the summer of 2016, in the wake of his European champion title with Portugal .
Formed in Caen in France, Guerreiro is also able to evolve in the midfield as was the case with Dortmund during the last two days of the Bundesliga this season to compensate for the absence through injury of Jude Bellingham. But it will above all strengthen the Munich defense, where several uncertainties remain, when the summer transfer window begins. According to the German press, Benjamin Pavard has indicated to Bayern that he does not wish to extend his contract which expires on June 30, 2024. The club is in discussions to try to extend that of French international defender Lucas Hernandez, which expires on June 30, 2024. June 30, 2024. Injured with the France team in mid-November, and since in rehabilitation in Munich, Hernandez returned to training at the very end of the season.
