Joshua Kimmich — free agent in the summer, Bayern withdraw renewal offer

Kimmich is on something like 320k pw (€20m p.a.) and will definitely want to have a 4 year contract at a CL club.

Not trying to be mean here, but... I don't think United have to worry about signing him.
 
Acrobat7 said:
Kimmich is on something like 320k pw (€20m p.a.) and will definitely want to have a 4 year contract at a CL club.

Not trying to be mean here, but... I don't think United have to worry about signing him.
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It'll be City if it's any PL team. Real don't need him. Barca can't afford him. PSG possibly also. That's about it. Super niche market. If we could get Casemiro off the books I'd take Kimmich on a free for 3 years with a one year option for around the same wages as he's on now. I assume Bayern are offering him lower wages to stay on as they are sensible and he's most likely already peaked. He'd be good for us but isn't going to come here and I can't see INEOS stumping up those kinds of wages anymore. Casemiro on a free would have been a great signing but the fee too on top of everything. Just madness
 
Giggsy13 said:
The only free agents we should be giving a serious look at are Angel Gomes and Jonathan David. Kimmich is not the profile of player we should be pursuing.
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I agree. I was about to put exactly the same until I seen this.
 
Acrobat7 said:
Kimmich is on something like 320k pw (€20m p.a.) and will definitely want to have a 4 year contract at a CL club.

Not trying to be mean here, but... I don't think United have to worry about signing him.
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Yeah, I certainly don't see United even being in the race here unless they offer him an insane amount of money, which they won't, and no more preferrable club wants him. Even then I'd see him just opting to stay at Bayern.

The question is which other clubs would want to pick him up and what they'd be willing to pay. I don't think there's that many clubs who will be willing to pay him €20m/pa or more.
 
DevTheRed said:
Doesn’t have the legs to play in our system.. we need athletes in this team right now.
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Kimmich is one of the fittest players I have ever seen. His stamina is incredible and the distance he covers in games is huge.
 
HTG said:
Kimmich is one of the fittest players I have ever seen. His stamina is incredible and the distance he covers in games is huge.
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The athleticism required to succeed in the PL currently exceeds that of the bundesliga. Terrible fit for Kimmich at this stage of his career.
 
At 30 years old this summer, he should be fine in terms of athleticism. However if he signed as a free agent, he’ll want a 4 year contract and he might have a problem in the next couple of years. We’ll be left with another Casemiro situation (high wages, not a good fit in the starting lineup)
 
Acrobat7 said:
I can tell that you have seen him play many times. :lol:
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Okay legs was the wrong word to use, but he certainly isn’t an athlete. He has a great engine.. but completely lacks physical presence and he’s just turned 30. We’ve seen with Case how quickly players deteriorate and Kimmich would struggle massively in the premier league if he loses his legs.

He isn’t going to stop players running right though the middle of us.. to do that we need pace and power. Kimmich doesn’t have that unfortunately.
 
HTG said:
Kimmich is one of the fittest players I have ever seen. His stamina is incredible and the distance he covers in games is huge.
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He covers distance and pings the ball around like no tomorrow.. in a midfield 3 I’m sure he’d be great for us. But he lacks physicality and that’s what I think we need most right now to make this system work.
 
HTG said:
Kimmich is one of the fittest players I have ever seen. His stamina is incredible and the distance he covers in games is huge.
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Don't think it's just about fitness. The intensity and speed of the Premier League is on another level than Bundesliga, that took a lot physically on a player, and I would be wary to sign a 30 year old from there.
 
reelworld said:
Don't think it's just about fitness. The intensity and speed of the Premier League is on another level than Bundesliga, that took a lot physically on a player, and I would be wary to sign a 30 year old from there.
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You don’t have to worry about signing him. If he leaves Bayern he won’t go to United.
 
I’d take him on a two year deal and it’s on a free too, big if admittedly but on sensible wages I don’t see a downside, let’s be honest here though, he’s never coining to us with the state we’re in right now
 
Acrobat7 said:
People need to hear the truth. Did you also count the repetitive „he is not the player United needs“ as if United were an option?
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If we paid he'd come. Money over ambition for 99% of players.
 
Ed9 said:
If we paid he'd come. Money over ambition for 99% of players.
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Kimmich comes across as a very (if not overly) ambitious guy. There are a couple of other clubs that match his ambition and would pay a lot. I don't think United have a shot at signing him.
 
JuliaScalaR said:
Kimmich comes across as a very (if not overly) ambitious guy. There are a couple of other clubs that match his ambition and would pay a lot. I don't think United have a shot at signing him.
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You might be right, I'm just going by the examples of Casemiro, Basti and others. We paid, they came, maybe naively expecting we'll turn good.
 
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