Overview
- Sportbild/BILD reports Bayern have spoken with Liverpool center back Ibrahima Konaté’s representatives as a contingency option.
- SPORT1 reports negotiations with Dayot Upamecano have slowed chiefly over his camp’s request for a sizable signing bonus.
- Upamecano is prepared to wait until after the turn of the year to decide, with his contract expiring next summer, according to SPORT1.
- Liverpool, Real Madrid, Inter and Chelsea are cited as clubs monitoring the situation should he become available.
- Bayern view Kompany as a potential bridge in the negotiations, and president Herbert Hainer publicly urged Upamecano to extend at the club’s AGM.