Overview
- Manuel Neuer’s deal expires this season, with Bayern planning talks in April or May as Eberl says he can imagine the captain playing one more year.
- Eberl declines to commit publicly on Neuer’s future, citing caution after the Müller episode and noting the goalkeeper will assess his condition around his 40th birthday in late March.
- Negotiations with Serge Gnabry show what Eberl describes as “light at the end of the tunnel,” with extensions for Gnabry and Dayot Upamecano labeled the current priority.
- Upamecano has a “very good” offer from Bayern after constructive pre-Christmas talks, with no formal deadline set as the club says it would accept his choice even if he leaves.
- Eberl describes his cooperation with Uli Hoeneß as intensive and dismisses reports of interest in Köln’s Said El Mala as nonsense.