Writing in his Sky Sport column on Monday evening, Matthäus argued that if Bayern are going to measure contracts by current output, they have an equally obvious case the other way.
“If Hoeneß was referring to value for money, then, on the other hand, Michael Olise’s salary in particular would have to be at least doubled, if not tripled,” Matthäus wrote.
Olise joined Bayern for €50m in 2024 and, by Matthäus’s reckoning, has since grown into a player worth closer to €150-200m. His pay has not followed.
Hoeneß on BR24 Sonntags-Stammtisch
Hoeneß, Bayern’s honorary president, raised the salary question on BR24’s “Sonntags-Stammtisch” on Sunday. Musiala, 23, has been sidelined with absence seizures caused by a neurological dysfunction, a condition which surfaced during preseason in August, and more recently a torn muscle fibre picked up on international duty in late September.
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“With Musiala, the situation is completely different. We’re in a dilemma there. He has an illness that cannot simply be cured, but can be managed to some extent with medication,” Hoeneß told the show.
“Just imagine if FC Bayern were now to question his contract and say: ‘What he is capable of delivering now is no longer what was stipulated in the contract’,” he said on the same programme.
The condition is reportedly not covered by the insurance provisions in Musiala’s contract, meaning the club is exposed if his output stays below the level the deal assumed. He has played four times this season in all competitions, scoring and assisting in a 7-0 win over Union Berlin and contributing little otherwise.
The contract Bayern signed up to
Matthäus’s broader argument was that the deal itself is not the problem. Bayern extended Musiala through June 2030 and accepted the salary and the length at the time. A contract carries risk for both sides, he wrote in the same column, and a club does not get to reopen it when the risk tilts against them.
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He also objected to the dilemma being aired at all. Internal concerns about a player’s recovery, in his view, do not belong on a Sunday-morning TV sofa.
Danks still in charge on the touchline
Head coach Vincent Kompany was recently hospitalised with meningeal irritation, and assistant Aaron Danks has been taking training and matches in the interim.
Musiala is expected back after the international break, when Bayern host 1. FC Köln on 20 November.
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