Somehow these things do not fill me with confidence in our mid and longterm planning, at all. Sure, I'd love for Lewandowski, Müller, and Neuer to stay at Bayern until their careers' ends, but if that means we'll lose younger players left and right for that end, the club can't possibly think that this is a sensible course we're on. Not meeting Süle's salary expectations because we need to keep salaries in check is the one thing, and not per se bad, but it's questionable if one of the main driving factors here is reserving the wages for our superstar trio of 30+(++) players.
Losing Süle without a fee because we won't pay him more, *buying* a replacement *and* pay that guy more than Süle was offered? That's just staggeringly stupid. That's what the rumors about Christensen come down to, at least, and i doubt we'll get a semi-established defender and come away any better than what I outlined.
Then there's the stuff about the stalling of Gnabry's extension, again for salary questions, as Gnabry expects to be in the same pay bracket as Coman and Sané (and why wouldnt he be?), but Bayern being reluctant to meet him and putting his signature at risk.
Similar story with Nübel, although money is not the main talking point here. We're about to lose him, too, since he's not getting a whiff of game time with Neuer at the club - who has just been announced out for at least 3-4 weeks.
I appreciate that the club bosses are between a rock and a hard place here, with money being mostly earned instead of injected from a bottomless pit, but banking everything on some of our oldest players is just asking for disaster a few years down the road.
