Either way, the bosses have played this close to the vest up to the sudden announcement. How did this stay quiet for so long? Well, it looks like there aren’t as many moles at the Salzburg outfit - and maybe not at Bayern anymore, either, if Freund has really been under contract for a month. He’ll hope to do the same in Bavaria, just on a much bigger stage.

įreund arrives from the Austrian club with a strong and recent pedigree of identifying - and developing - young talent. The sporting director is said to have signed his contract with FC Bayern Munich about a month ago. That’s according to a new report from Salzburger Nachrichten, captured via responsible at RB Salzburg have known for several weeks that Christoph Freund is going to Bayern. It’s led to some speculation over who was filling what role and what the future of technical director Marco Neppe would be.īut just as the Bavarians haven’t been without a plan on the player front - targeting and moving on the likes of Tottenham striker Harry Kane and defender Kim Min-jae from Napoli - they had their new sporting director, RB Salzburg’s Christoph Freund, in mind from the jump. This time, though, it’s not a player but the staff member who will oversee the team’s transfer activity for the foreseeable future: new sporting director Christoph Freund.įor much of the opening salvo of the summer transfer window, the Bavarians operated without a sporting director named. Bayern Munich are back to their silent assassin ways on the transfer market.

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