This summer 2025 marks a turning point in the history of Bayern Munich. For the first time in 25 years, Thomas Müller will not take his license with his lifelong club. At the end of the contract and while he would have liked to extend one more season, the attacker went to Canada where he will now wear the colors of Vancouver. More broadly, the entire offensive sector of Bayern is largely affected by this transfer window. Leroy Sané left on the side of Galatasaray, while Mathys Tel or Bryan Zaragoza definitively left the club. They no longer entered the plans of Vincent Kompany, who sees Kingsley Coman spinning in Al-Nassr.
To overcome all these departures, the Belgian technician has not had for the moment only Luis Diaz. He would like to recruit a new winger capable of strengthening competition, but the training center also feeds a certain reservoir. Already alerted last year by what he saw in young people, the coach decided to give Lennart Karl a chance during the pre-season. Face-face, a pocket format (1m68) but a talent that only requires hatching, the young 17-year-old German took advantage of the preparation matches to shine with the first team, like his acolytes Tom Bischof (20) and Jonah Kusi-Asare (18). His speed, his percussion, his dribbles and his sense of goal quickly skipped and hurts the opponents of the Bavarians.
2 goals and 1 decisive pass in preparation
For his first match against OL, Karl energized his right corridor for a big half hour before lowering his foot. He was very close to registering a sublime volley. The next match against Tottenham will be the right one. Replacing this time, he scored the 3rd goal of his team with a magnificent shot rolled up in a skylight. For the 3rd summer game against the Grasshopper Zurich, the feu-follet has taken over a place of holder on the right side of the attack with this time a goal, a cannon floating shot, and a decisive pass. If he wanted to stand out, Karl couldn't have done better. The fact remains that it is for the moment only a tube of the summer.
The “real” matches, those who count are fast approaching. The German Supercup arrives on Saturday (8:30 p.m.) against Stuttgart, then the weekend depending on it will be the kick-off of the Bundesliga with a first top of the table against the RB Leipzig. “I absolutely want to have playing time in the most important matches, for example against Stuttgart in Super Cup or Bundesliga”also dropped the Bavarian nugget, aware of it only at the beginning. He can at least boast of having given very good impressions to his teammates, like Harry Kane. “”He is likely to play at a very high level.»»
A signed contract and an extension already provided for
Doubed by the English striker, the German U17 International (13 selections, 7 goals) is also by his club where he arrived in 2022 from Aschaffenburg. “”We see its quality in the field. Everything happened very, very quickly with him, but we know what we have in him. He knows what he has at FC Bayern. He is really on the right trackSaid Christoph Freund during the summer. The sports director hastened to make him sign a nice young contract until 2028 no later than last week. The games have already planned to meet again by the end of the year to extend this agreement beyond 2028. We must still wait for Karl's 18th anniversary (next February 22).
Bayern did not need its majority to realize the boy's talent. Last season, he exploded the counters in the different categories of young people (U17 and U19) with no less than 34 goals and 11 assists in 31 games in all competitions. Kompany even took him with him to the Club World Cup where he played a half-time during the one-way match against Auckland (10-0). To date, it is still his only official appearance in the first team. “”For the future of the club, it is important that young players like Lennart have playing time. He deserves it. He has a huge talent in the last third of the fieldJustified the Belgian coach.
“”It is very exhausting to train every day with the pros. The matches are completely different from those of young people. But coming to training every day, playing with the best in the world is obviously very intense, but I can keep upPromises the nugget. Scheduled to assist Michael Olise, the little left -hander has shown that he could already occupy a more important role, especially after the many summer departures and the long injury of Musiala. Places are to be taken. “”I feel good in the team. The guys welcome me perfectly. I can show my strengths and work on my weak points. I work very hard and I hope it will work.»»
