Sydney FC are in talks to signal former Bayern Munich legend Thomas Müller in what might be one of many best marquee coups in A-League historical past.
Müller, 35, is a free agent after departing Bayern, the one membership he has ever performed for, on the finish of the latest FIFA Membership World Cup after greater than 500 video games throughout almost 20 years, and is searching for a brand new expertise to spherical out his profession.
May Thomas Müller land at Sydney FC subsequent season?Credit score: Getty Photos
Although studies have linked him to Main League Soccer in the US – and a few have gone so far as to say he has already made up his thoughts – this masthead can reveal that the Sky Blues have been in discussions with Müller and his representatives for a number of weeks about an A-League change, and that they continue to be an out of doors likelihood of convincing him.
A solution both means is anticipated throughout the subsequent week or so, with the membership just lately knowledgeable that they’re one of many ultimate two choices he’s contemplating. The opposite is in MLS, and that’s believed to be his favoured possibility, however Sydney are nonetheless in with a shot.
Sources with information of negotiations, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, stated Müller – a 13-time Bundesliga winner, two-time UEFA Champions League winner, and a part of the Germany squad that received the 2014 World Cup – had been impressed with the pitch made to him by Sydney FC.
Two of his former teammates are already on the membership: Brazilian star Douglas Costa, who he performed with between 2015 and 2017 at Bayern Munich, and the retired Alexander Baumjohann, Sydney’s head of participant administration who spent a yr on the books at Germany’s greatest membership and is believed to be spearheading the try to signal him.
Thomas Müller lifts the World Cup in 2014.Credit score: Getty Photos
His recruitment could be an unlimited boon for the financially stricken A-League and for Sydney FC, whose board has undergone an low season restructure with the departure of long-time chairman Scott Barlow. Jan Voss, a German-Australian enterprise government and president of Ferrari Australasia, has changed Barlow as chairman, whereas the membership’s basis chairman Walter Bugno – vastly influential of their ‘Bling FC’ period – is again on the board as a director.
No A-League membership – not even the Sky Blues – can compete with the wages that Müller would be capable of entice within the US or elsewhere; like every high-profile participant who decides to maneuver to Australia, it might contain him prioritising the low-key way of life he would be capable of get pleasure from in Sydney over cash.
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