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Former Liverpool man Luis Diaz has officially won the Bundesliga 2025/26 title with Bayern Munich.
When Liverpool decided to sell Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich in July 2025 for £65.5 million, the decision was framed as sound financial management, a player entering his late twenties, good money on the table, and a front line already being reshaped around Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, and Hugo Ekitike
Nine months later, as Bayern Munich lift the Bundesliga trophy for a 35th time, the debate that has followed Diaz’s move to Germany has reached its loudest point yet.
The Colombian winger has been one of the most effective players in European football this season, operating as the creative engine of a Bayern side that has lost just once in the Bundesliga all campaign.
His league numbers are exceptional: 15 goals and 13 assists in 28 Bundesliga appearances, totalling 28 direct goal involvements in the division alone.
Across all competitions, he has contributed 24 goals and 17 assists in 43 appearances, accumulating 3,492 minutes of football.
His expected goals figure across all competitions sits at 21.05, meaning he has significantly outperformed even his underlying numbers.
He completes 58 successful dribbles in the Bundesliga at a 50.4% success rate and ranks in the 98th percentile for goals among wingers in Germany.
The move to Munich has taken Diaz to a level of consistent elite performance that his Liverpool career, for all its moments of brilliance, never quite sustained over a full season.
This is now his 14th career trophy, and his first major league title outside of Portugal and England.
The partnership he has formed alongside Harry Kane and Michael Olise has drawn comparisons to the legendary Robben and Ribéry era at the club, which for Bayern supporters represents the highest possible compliment.
Bayern Munich officially secured the Bundesliga title today, beating VfB Stuttgart 4-2 at the Allianz Arena with four matches to spare, after nearest challengers Borussia Dortmund suffered a defeat at Hoffenheim on Saturday night — meaning Bayern needed only a point to be crowned champions, though in the end they delivered considerably more than that.
Stuttgart, chasing a Champions League place of their own and with nothing to lose, threatened to derail the party when Chris Fuhrich curled home a superb effort after 21 minutes to give the visitors the lead.
Bayern responded almost immediately, with Raphael Guerreiro equalising 10 minutes later before Nicolas Jackson, the on-loan Chelsea forward deputising for the rested Harry Kane, put the hosts ahead two minutes after that, with the assist coming from Diaz.
Alphonso Davies then made it 3-1 nine minutes before half-time, improvising well to flick the ball past Alexander Nubel from inside the area after a pass, again, from Diaz.
Diaz was substituted at half-time having already contributed two assists in the opening 45 minutes, with Michael Olise coming on to replace him as Slot’s Bayern completed the formalities in the second half.
Kane himself came on at half-time to replace Jamal Musiala and needed just seven minutes to add a fourth, his 32nd league goal of the season, before Chema Andres scored a late consolation for Stuttgart in the 88th minute.
The victory seals a 13th Bundesliga title in the past 14 seasons for Bayern and keeps their treble ambitions very much alive. Semi-finals against Bayer Leverkusen in the DFB-Pokal and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League are both to come later this month.
For Liverpool supporters watching from across the North Sea, the sight of Diaz collecting a Bundesliga winners’ medal four points clear at the top of Germany, after a season in which Liverpool have been fighting to hold onto fifth place in the Premier League, is a result that will sting in ways that no straightforward transfer fee can fully account for.
