Fourteen goals in 17 appearances. Five of those in just four Champions League matches. That is what Bayern Munich have been watching whenever their scouts have flown into Belgium this autumn.
Nicolò Tresoldi opened the scoring for Club Brugge in a 2-1 win over Napoli on 4 November, his fifth goal of the Champions League league phase. UEFA data has him at five goals in four matches, placing him near the top of the competition’s scoring chart.
German outlet FC Bayern Inside reports that Tresoldi’s name was discussed several weeks ago in an internal meeting of Bayern’s board, and that scouts have travelled to Belgium on more than one occasion to monitor the striker.
A hat-trick at San Siro put him on the map
The surge of interest can be traced to a specific night in Milan. Tresoldi hit three past Inter at the San Siro on 13 October, taking the game 4-3 for Brugge. According to Yahoo Sports, that haul made him the youngest German player to score a Champions League hat-trick, at 22 years and 257 days, and the first Club Brugge player to score three in a single Champions League match.
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Brugge: “not for sale”
Club Brugge’s response to the pursuit has been unambiguous. A board member told Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, as relayed by Goal.com, that Tresoldi is “not for sale” and that it is “completely irrelevant” whether clubs try to prise him away in the January window.
His contract runs until 30 June 2029, and Brugge paid Hannover 96 around €7.5m to sign him in July 2025.
Any January move would start a long way north of that figure. German reporting suggests Brugge would want upwards of €40m, and some asking prices now circulating in Belgian and Italian coverage are above €50m.
Not just Bayern
The German club are far from alone. Tresoldi has been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City in England, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus in Italy, and Borussia Dortmund in Germany, with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona also named in recent weeks.
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The logic at Bayern is self-evident. Harry Kane remains the club’s established centre-forward, but a 22-year-old scoring at Tresoldi’s current rate is the kind of profile Bayern want for the next decade, not the next six months.
Bayern’s interest is not new. Transferfeed reported back in June that the club were already monitoring Tresoldi as a possible future option behind Kane, and that Brugge had earlier that summer rejected an offer in excess of €30m.
Tresoldi’s next assignment is matchday five of the Champions League league phase, with Brugge so far on three wins from four games in the competition.
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