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Liverpool’s search for a long-term Mohamed Salah successor has inevitably dragged Michael Olise’s name into the conversation, and Bayern Munich seem to be fielding questions about it every few days. With the Frenchman lighting up the Bundesliga and Liverpool braced for life after their Egyptian superstar, the joining of the dots has felt almost too easy for the rumour mill.
In the Bundesliga this season, Michael Olise has 11 goals and 17 assists, giving him 28 goal involvements in 25 league games.
But while the speculation keeps growing in England, the message coming out of Bavaria has been almost comically consistent.
The latest to address the situation is Bayern legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who has offered the calmest response yet to the noise around Olise. “These rumours make everyone at the club smile,” Rummenigge clarified in an interview with Spanish newspaper AS. “You know better than anyone else how the media circus works. He still has three years left on his contract – there’s nothing more to say on the matter. People come to the stadium because of players like him,” he added.
Rummenigge then becomes the fourth Bayern chief to speak on the matter in the last week.
Uli Hoeneß, Honorary President at Bayern Munich, came out with strong words over the weekend, saying of the links:
“Liverpool spent 500 million this year and are having a very bad season,” he said in response to the Liverpool links with Olise. “So we won’t be contributing to them playing better next year”,” he said.
“We play this game for our fans. We have 430,000 members, we have many millions of fans around the world, and it does them little good if we have 200 million more in the bank and play worse football every Saturday because of that”
Meanwhile, sporting director Max Eberl said:
“We don’t waste any thought on that,” said Eberl.” He’s an FC Bayern player and has all the opportunities here that top players want.”
“Michael has a contract with us until 2029, without a release clause – we are relaxed.”
Finally, Meanwhile, CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen added: “Anyone who plays for FC Bayern knows what he has at FC Bayern.”
For Liverpool, those remarks don’t kill any long‑term interest in the Frenchman, but they do hammer home just how tough and costly it would be to get him out of Bayern.
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